Prof Marco Tomietto

Professor

Department: Nursing, Midwifery & Health

Marco's expertise mainly focuses on clinical learning environments, mentorship, organizational transition of newcomer nurses and work and organizational psychology dynamics related to nursing science, nursing environments and human resources management in the healthcare settings.

His research vision embeds a multi-disciplinary perspective. After his studies in nursing science, he completed his PhD in work and organizational psychology, so to embed in nursing research the theoretical and methodological approaches of a different discipline and to further enhance the understanding of nursing phenomena.

Along his research journey he developed a broad methodological expertise in scales validation, CFA, Structural Equation Modelling, biostatistics and epidemiology in order to further disclose the healthcare settings' and nursing's complexity.

His work contributed in testing and disclosing new empirical models to support educational and organizational decision-making in nursing education and management.

His recent reasearch provided new insights in the motivational dynamics to support nurses' work-ability in different stages of their career, in designing mentoring strategies in nursing education, in supporting the adoption of VR technology in nursing care and in detecting the generational patterns of vaccination hesitancy in healthcare workers and students.

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Key Publications

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Barriers and facilitators of vaccine hesitancy for COVID-19, Influenza, and Pertussis during pregnancy and in mothers of infants under two years: an Umbrella Review, Nichol, B., McCready, J., Steen, M., Unsworth, J., Simonetti, V., Tomietto, M. 2 Mar 2023, In: PLoS One
Culturally and linguistically diverse nursing students' experiences of integration into the working environment: A qualitative study, Ropponen, P., Kamau, S., Koskenranta, M., Kuivila, H., Oikarainen, A., Isakov, T., Tomietto, M., Mikkonen, K. 1 Jan 2023, In: Nurse Education Today
Culturally and linguistically diverse registered nurses' experiences of integration into nursing workforce – A qualitative descriptive study, Kamau, S., Koskenranta, M., Isakov, T., Kuivila, H., Oikarainen, A., Tomietto, M., Mikkonen, K. 1 Feb 2023, In: Nurse Education Today
Grading practice as a strategy to improve proficiencies in undergraduate nurse education: Modelling key areas of competence, Annesley, S., Platt, A., Wade, J., Tomietto, M. 1 Sep 2023, In: Nurse Education Today
Healthcare professionals’ digital health competence and its core factors; development and psychometric testing of two instruments, Jarva, E., Oikarinen, A., Andersson, J., Tomietto, M., Kaariainen, M., Mikkonen, K. 1 Mar 2023, In: International Journal of Medical Informatics
Healthcare Workforce Policy Brief: Vaccination and the Registered Nursing Workforce, Unsworth, J., McCready, J., Erfani, G., Nichol, B., Gordon, C., Tomietto, M. 18 Oct 2023
Immersive and Non-Immersive Virtual Reality for Pain and Anxiety Management in Pediatric Patients with Hematological or Solid Cancer: A Systematic Review, Comparcini, D., Simonetti, V., Galli, F., Saltarella, I., Altamura, C., Tomietto, M., Desaphy, J., Cicolini, G. 3 Feb 2023, In: Cancers
Implementing an electronic public health record for policy planning in the UK military sector: Validation of a secure hashing algorithm, Tomietto, M., McGill, A., Kiernan, M. 1 Jun 2023, In: Heliyon
Increasing the use of experimental methods in nursing and midwifery education research, Watson, R., Tomietto, M., Mikkonen, K. 1 Jul 2023, In: Nurse Education in Practice
Nurse educators' views of integrating culturally and linguistically diverse future registered nurses into healthcare settings: A qualitative descriptive study, Kamau, S., Oikarainen, A., Juntunen, J., Koskenranta, M., Kuivila, H., Tomietto, M., Mikkonen, K. 1 Sep 2023, In: Journal of Advanced Nursing

Professional Activity

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Oral presentation: Designing learning environments in Nursing Education during the pandemic age: Identifying factors which lead to better students’ wellbeing 2022
Editorial work: BMC Medical Education (Journal) 2022
Editorial work: Nurse Education Today (Journal) 2022
Membership of network: Sigma Phi-Mu Chapter (External organisation) 2022
Visiting an external academic institution: University of Bari 2022
Invited talk: Work engagement and work ability: motivational perspectives in healthcare organizations 2021
Oral presentation: Development of an Evidence-Based Nurse Mentors’ Competence Model 2021
Oral presentation: Enhancing Learning Environments Of Nurses: Organizational Research Advancements – ELEONORA PROJECT 2020
Publication Peer-review: BMC Medical Education (Journal) 2020
Publication Peer-review: BMJ Evidence-Based Medicine (Journal) 2020

PGR Supervision

Leah Rosengarten Band 5 children’s nurses’ experiences and perceptions of personal and professional development in their role. Start Date: 09/02/2022
Emma Clark Newly Qualified Midwives: Emotional wellbeing and retention Start Date: 19/11/2021

Qualifications

Psychology PhD May 16 2014
Nursing Science MSc March 17 2008
Nursing BSc (Hons) April 10 2001

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