The awarded project promotes advanced nursing practice as a driver of care improvement in public hospitals in the Balearic Islands.

The Deputy Director of Care Services of the Health Service, Concha Zaforteza, accepted the Professor Barea Award from the Signo Foundation at the 23rd edition of the awards. The accolade recognises best practices in health management and highlights the role of advanced nursing as a key agent in improving care quality and patient safety.

A team of seven researchers was honoured for the project titled “Advanced Practice Nurse as an Agent of Evidence Transfer into Clinical Practice,” which won in the category “Professional development for improving health care.” This is one of the five categories in the Professor Barea Awards, which received nearly one hundred applications.

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Project Wins the Professor Barea Award from the Signo Foundation

The awarded project was developed by a team of seven researchers: Concha Zaforteza, Carlos Villafáfila, and Francisco Ferrer (from the Health Service); Joan E. de Pedro Gómez and Sandra Pol (from the University of the Balearic Islands); and Miguel Ángel Rodríguez and Ian Blanco (from the Andalusian Health Service).

The initiative involves introducing nurses with advanced practice competencies into five inpatient units across three public hospitals in the Balearic Islands, to implement two evidence-based clinical practice guidelines. After one year of implementation, results showed a significant improvement in patient health indicators in those units, including reductions in pressure injury rates and complications associated with venous catheters, compared to other similar units.