Background Although perinatal deaths are still a common pregnancy outcome in developing countries, little is known about the effect perinatal death has on fathers. Objective The aim of the study was to understand and describe the meaning of perinatal death in a sample of fathers from northeastern Colombia. Methods Using purposive and snowball sampling approaches, we identified 15 participants from northeastern Colombia who agreed to participate. We used a descriptive phenomenological design. Data were collected through in-depth, semistructured interviews. Results Men suffer in solitude and hide their emotions as they feel the need to be the main supporters of their partners. Three major themes emerged: experience of loss, coming to terms with an irreparable loss, and overcoming the loss. Discussion While women are receiving care, health staff may neglect or forget men. Men suffer alone while seeking ways of attunement with their partners’ emotions to support them during the grieving process. Fathers can overcome and adjust to the loss when they transcend it and find new meaning. Men felt neglected and marginalized at hospitals while their partners were receiving treatment. Health professionals should recognize and acknowledge the pain of fathers who face perinatal death and include them as much as possible in the standard of care. The results identify opportunities for healthcare providers in clinical and outpatient settings to acknowledge the importance of men within the context of pregnancy and to learn about their pain and suffering when they face a perinatal death.

Purpose: Prescriptive and predictive analytics and artificial intelligence (AI) provide tools to analyze data with objectivity. In this paper, we provide an overview of how these techniques can improve nursing care, and we detail a quantitative model to afford managerial insights about care management in a Hospital in Colombia. Our main purpose is to provide tools to improve key performance indicators for the care management of inpatients which includes the nurse workload. Methods: The optimal nurse-to-patient assignment problem is addressed using analytics, lean health care, and AI. Also, we propose a new mathematical model to optimize the nurse-to-patient assignment decisions considering several variables about the patient state such as the Barthel index, their risks, the complexity of the care, and the mental state. Findings: Our results show that there are several processes inherent to compassionate nursing care that can be improved using technology. By using data analytics, we can also provide insights about the high variability of the care requirements and, by using models, find nurse-to-patient assignments that are nearly perfectly balanced. Conclusions: We illustrated this improvement with a pilot test that makes the equitable distribution of nursing workload the functionality of this strategy. The findings can be useful in highly complex hospitals in Latin America. Clinical Relevance: The proposed model presents an opportunity to make near perfectly balanced nurse-to-patient assignments according to the number of patients and their health conditions using technology.

Objective. To describe the meaning given by adolescents and young adults to the changes in their bodies and corporality after a spinal cord injury. Methods. Qualitative study based on symbolic interactionism in which 12 adolescents and young adults, who had suffered spinal cord injury 6 months or more before, participated. The information was recollected through a series of in-depth interviews and field journals. The guidelines proposed by Corbin and Strauss were followed for the process of codification and categorization of the data. Results. Four categories were identified that describe the meanings given by participants to the changes in their bodies and corporality: Transformation of self-image, living with contradictions in the relationships with others, withstanding the burden of a disability and adapting to the new conditions. Conclusion. The results allow for the comprehension of the meanings that are given by the people who have suffered a spinal cord lesion to their situation. This will in turn open the possibility of offering these people a better individual nursing care that focuses more on the particular needs, so that both they and their families can be helped on their way to adaptation to the new situation.Key words: rehabilitation nursing; spinal cord injuries; disabled persons; adolescent; young adult; adaptation; nursing theory.Cuerpo y corporalidad en adolescentes y adultos jóvenes con lesión traumática de la médula espinalObjetivo. Describir los significados que otorgan los adolescentes y adultos jóvenes a los cambios en el cuerpo y la corporalidad luego de una lesión traumática de la medula espinal. Métodos. Estudio cualitativo basado en el interaccionismo simbólico, en el cual participaron 12 adolescentes y adultos jóvenes con trauma raquimedular con un tiempo mayor a seis meses desde el evento. Body and Corporality in adolescents and young adults with spinal cord injury categorías que describen los significados que tienen para los participantes los cambios en el cuerpo y la corporalidad: Transformación de la imagen de sí mismo, vivir contradicciones en las relaciones con otros, soportar la carga de la discapacidad y adaptarse a la nueva condición. Conclusión. Los resultados permiten comprender los significados que otorgan las personas con lesión medular a su condición, para poder brindar un cuidado de enfermería individual enfocado en las necesidades particulares, para ayudarlos a ellos y a sus familias a adaptarse a la situación.Palabras clave: Enfermería de rehabilitación; traumatismos de la médula espinal; personas con discapacidad; adolescente; adulto joven; adaptación; teoría de enfermería.Corpo e corporalidade em adolescentes e adultos jovens com lesão traumática da medula espinal