2025 February - 45 articles
Clostridioides difficile (C. difficile), a gram-positive, spore-forming bacillus, has emerged as a leading cause of healthcare-associated infections, significantly contributing to infectious diarrhea and increasing healthcare costs. This descriptive,...
Background: The Caring Massage® (CM) consists of nurse–patient physical and mental contact. It promotes empathetic presence and emotional closeness and strengthens trust and safety in the nurse–patient relationship. However, previous...
Background/Objectives: South Korea has expanded nursing transfer programs to address its ongoing nursing shortage, but research on transfer students’ experiences remains scarce, and studies on academic persistence and attrition remain limited....
Background: Evidence indicates that pediatric burns are a significant form of trauma. They affect not only children but also their parents, who often experience short- and long-term psychopathological symptoms. The body of knowledge on the impact of...
Background: Empathy and assertiveness are two essential soft skills for health professionals such as nurses or physiotherapists. Both professions are characterised by their contribution to preserving and improving health and human care, and for their...
Background/Objectives: This cross-sectional study aimed to produce an adapted Croatian version of the Negative Behaviors in Health Care Questionnaire and to validate it. Methods: The process comprised the translation, cultural adaptation, and psychom...
Background/Objectives: Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming nursing, with generative AI (GenAI) tools such as ChatGPT offering opportunities to enhance education through personalized learning pathways. This study aimed to explore nursing stud...
Background/Objectives: Greek cancer patients deal with high out-of-pocket medical expenses in comparison with the European Union average. All these high costs affect the quality of life of cancer patients, leading to financial toxicity. The purpose o...
Background: The prevalence of people with obesity is increasing worldwide, facing challenges in terms of discrimination and prejudice across all settings, including healthcare. Objective: The objective of this review is to compare and synthesize rece...
Background/Objectives: an estimated 1.8 billion people worldwide menstruate, and many face difficulties managing. Young adults often encounter stigma, exclusion, and a lack of resources to manage menstruation comfortably. A review of studies on colle...
Background/Objectives: To address long-standing staffing challenges and elevating care standards in the United States, new legislation will require a minimum of 0.55 h per resident day (HPRD) of registered nurse (RN) care, 2.45 HPRD of certified nurs...
Background: Training on the use of ultrasounds (US) is offered to nurses after their degree in specialization courses or in a work setting. When considering the positive impact of US on patient quality of care, this training should be offered to unde...
Retrospective studies have suggested that performing perioperative abdominal wall exercises may decrease the incidence of parastomal hernias. Objectives: This study seeks to assess the usefulness of supervised preoperative and postoperative abdominal...
Background/Objectives: The use of simulated learning as a teaching approach has been used and embedded in nursing theoretical curriculum for many years. There is a wealth of evidence to support the positive impact simulated learning or simulated-base...
Background: Most of the communication training programs developed over the past two decades were monodisciplinary, relied on traditional teaching methods, and targeted the hospital context. Objectives: The aim of this study is to assess the impact of...
Background: Effective communication in healthcare is essential for ensuring teamwork that is continuous, effective, and efficient. It plays a crucial role in supporting comprehensive and holistic care for patients while also guaranteeing the safety a...
Background/Objectives: The global nursing shortage encompasses issues such as the uneven nurse distribution in low- and middle-income countries, nurse outflow to other countries, and nurse retirement in developed countries, necessitating effective re...
Background: The prevalence of chronic health problems in childhood, such as food and respiratory allergies, as well as endocrine and skin disorders, has increased globally. Parents and children experience difficulties in managing their illness that r...
Background/Objectives: The nursing profession is expected to undergo substantial transformations in the coming years due to rapidly evolving sociocultural, environmental, and technological changes. Defining and assessing nursing competencies are esse...
Background: Artificial intelligence (AI) has been increasingly employed in healthcare across diverse domains, including medical imaging, personalized diagnostics, therapeutic interventions, and predictive analytics using electronic health records. It...
Background: Sleep quality is crucial for patient recovery and well-being, yet hospitalized patients often suffer from poor sleep due to environmental disruptions, clinical routines, and psychosocial stressors. While these challenges are well-document...
(1) Background: Self-medication, defined as the use of medications without professional supervision, is a common practice that presents both potential benefits and significant risks. This study analyzes the prevalence, patterns, and determinants of s...
Background/Objectives: The COVID-19 pandemic has adversely impacted the mental health of nurses worldwide. Nurse burnout results from chronic workplace stress and is characterized by exhaustion, negative or cynical feelings about work, and a diminish...
Background/Objectives: Patient and family involvement in bedside handover is a requirement of the national standards on patient safety and quality in Australia. To ensure patient-and-family-centred care, it is essential to understand how patients and...
Trillium Health Partners (THP) is a hospital network that serves the Mississauga region of Ontario, Canada, and sees nearly 1.7 million patient visits each year. THP is also a provider of highly specialized services to the region and a fully-fledged...
Background: Physical inactivity among older adults persists as one of the global burdens. Older adults’ physical activity (PA) levels decline simultaneously with age, causing health problems and poor outcomes. Immersive interventions, such as m...
Background/Objectives: School nursing is a nursing practice focused on promoting child health within the school and community environment, integrating healthcare with the educational process. The aim was to explore the experiences of nurses and teach...
Background/Objectives: Undergraduate nursing students report encountering significant challenges when they perform preplanning for clinical days. The literature lacks evidence regarding this educational model for clinical training, yet faculty contin...
Background/Objectives: Coping strategies are influenced by sociocultural factors, and an understanding of how the Brief-COPE functions within the Chinese student population is important for its validity and reliability. This study aimed to explore th...
Background: Academic integrity is an important component of nursing education, bridging academic ethics with professional practice. This study evaluated the effectiveness of a co-designed Academic Integrity digital serious game in improving nursing s...
Background/Objectives: Shift work schedules and mental and physical workloads affect the sleep homeostasis of nurses, increasing the risk of occupational injuries. This study aimed to investigate the relationship between sleep disturbances caused by...
Background/Objectives: Previous studies conducted in sub-Saharan African countries have concentrated on examining the challenges of nursing training and the organizational commitment of healthcare professionals, with little attention paid to explorin...
Background/Objectives: Caregivers engage in essential tasks that support patients’ well-being and survival, including administering medications, promoting healthy lifestyle choices, and monitoring and managing symptoms. To date, no valid and re...
Background: Evidence-based practice must be promoted in nursing education to provide quality care. For this, teaching practices that promote its development must be considered. Aim: The aim of this study was to explore a learning experience centered...
Background/Objectives: Hidradenitis suppurativa (HS) is an under-treated chronic inflammatory disease that affects approximately 0.40–2% of the population. Despite the competences nurses have in wound care, little is known about their managemen...
Background/Objectives: In recent years, the introduction of specialist nurses, such as donation coordinator nurses, has been proposed as a potentially effective strategy to increase the number of donations and improve the quality of the process. Howe...
Background/Objectives: Quiet quitting, defined as employees fulfilling only the minimal requirements of their roles without extra effort or engagement, poses unique challenges in high-stress environments like hospitals where commitment directly impac...
Background/Objectives: The aim of this study was to describe and examine the relationships among elements of infection prevention practices, the care environment, psychological safety, and safety climate in adult medical surgical units in the wake of...
Background/Objectives: Improvements in catheter connection design intended to increase safety have resulted in connections that are difficult to release manually. No medical device exists to safely disconnect catheter connections. Nurses and other us...
Background/Objectives: The systematic review by Zaher-Sánchez et al. evaluated the effectiveness of pharmacological and non-pharmacological interventions in preventing and managing delirium in elderly patients admitted to intensive care units...
Background/Objectives: Voluntary Assisted Dying in Australia was first legislated in 2019, with significant concern expressed by palliative care services about the impact on services. We aimed to describe the impact of Voluntary Assisted Dying on com...
Background: This study aimed to adapt and validate the Attitudes to Patient Safety Questionnaire (APSQ-III) for Brazilian Portuguese and to compare patient safety attitudes between medical and nursing students. Given the critical role of assessing sa...
Background: Atrial fibrillation, the most frequent and prevalent cardiac arrhythmia, often requires external cardioversion to ensure rhythm control. As healthcare professionals, nurses play a key role in autonomous intervention implementation. The ai...
Background: The complex nature of the work–family interaction process means special ethical considerations are required in its study. Symphonology can guide ethical analysis in this area, as it pertains to the study of agreements and the elemen...
Background/Objectives: The uneven distribution of nurses in Albania is a major problem that compromises equitable access to health services. Rural and less developed regions suffer from a chronic shortage of nursing staff, while urban areas attract h...
