2025 May - 45 articles
Background: Resilience is a cornerstone attribute for nursing students, enabling them to adapt to stressful situations encountered during their educational journey and subsequent healthcare career. Objective: This qualitative study aimed to explore n...
Background/Objectives: Peristomal skin complications (PSCs) are common among patients with ostomies, significantly impacting quality of life and increasing healthcare utilization. This study aimed to evaluate the effects of the Dermamecum protocol, a...
Background/Objectives: The REACtion project was developed to provide nursing care to older adults at home within the primary care setting. The COVID-19 pandemic posed significant challenges to its implementation, acting both as a barrier and an oppor...
Background: Critical thinking is fundamental for registered nurses (RNs) when making clinical decisions, which impact patient outcomes. This review aimed to identify studies on critical thinking and clinical decision making among nurses in clinical p...
Background/Objectives: Home non-invasive ventilation use is the primary treatment for improving respiratory function in people with chronic hypercapnic respiratory failure. Non-invasive ventilation has also been studied to understand users’ per...
Background: Vascular access in emergency departments (ED) is challenging for patients with difficult venous access (DIVA), causing delays and discomfort. Ultrasound-guided techniques may offer improved outcomes, making it crucial to assess their bene...
Background/Objectives: Academic engagement (AE) and work engagement (WE) are important indicators of performance and well-being in educational and occupational settings. Although these constructs are well researched independently, few studies have ex...
Background/Objectives: Mental health literacy (MHL) plays a crucial role in transitional processes, influencing, for example, students’ adaptation to higher education and, later, their transition into the workforce. This study assesses MHL abou...
Background and Objectives: Medication errors are a critical issue in healthcare systems worldwide, contributing to significant patient harm, with studies indicating that medication-related incidents are among the most common causes of adverse events...
Background: The healthcare sector is under increasing pressure due to an ageing population, rising multimorbidity, and a projected global workforce shortage of 10 million by 2030. It is becoming increasingly apparent that addressing these challenges...
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Background/Objective: Needlestick injuries (NSIs) are a significant source of bloodborne infections among nurses. This study aimed to assess the prevalence, contributing factors, and awareness of post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP) among Estonian nurses....
Background: Weight bias in healthcare can affect the quality of care and create health disparities. In nursing, the presence of weight-biassed attitudes influences the therapeutic relationship and clinical decision-making. However, in Spain, research...
Objective: To explore the feasibility and acceptability of using an evidence-based Tai Chi intervention to manage the fatigue–sleep disturbance–depression symptom cluster (FSDSC) in female breast cancer patients. Methods: This study repor...
Background/Objectives: Lower-limb amputation profoundly affects individuals and their family caregivers, particularly during home transition after hospital discharge. Understanding the needs, challenges, and emotions during this period is essential f...
Background/Objective: Part of the workload of ambulance service involves patients with low-acuity health events that do not require the specific resources provided by ambulance services or emergency departments (EDs). The problem of inappropriateness...
Background: Research in the intensive care unit (ICU), which involves critically ill patients, families and healthcare professionals, poses significant ethical challenges. The aim of this PRISMA-guided systematic review is to identify major challenge...
Objective: To synthesize and analyze the prevalence, composition, longitudinal stability, and predictors of cancer symptom clusters in children and adolescents undergoing chemotherapy. Method: A systematic literature review was conducted in accordanc...
Objectives: The objectives of this study were to determine the suitability of the low-fidelity/low-cost simulator “Salvando a Rosita®” in the acquisition of “hands-only CPR” skills by adult nursing degree students. Methods...
Background/Objectives: Satisfaction among undergraduate nursing students plays a crucial role in student retention, helping to mitigate nursing shortages in the workforce, reduce academic costs, and uphold universities’ reputations. The Nursing...
Background: Leadership is present at all levels of nursing and is essential to ensure the continuous improvement of nursing practice environments and the quality of the care provided to patients. This reality, coupled with the growing complexity of t...
Background/Objectives: Although medical radiation practice is essential for current medical care, many nursing students and nurses lack sufficient basic knowledge about radiation, and they are unfamiliar with learning about it. This study aimed to ev...
Background: Medication-related problems (MRPs) are common among home-care patients urgently needing improvement. Due to limited resources, patients with the greatest risk of MRPs should be prioritised for interventions. Objectives: We sought to devel...
Background: Stress affects 45% of NHS staff. More research is needed to explore how to develop resilient mental health nurses who face multiple workplace stressors, including interacting with distressed clients. Higher Education Institutions are uniq...
Background: There is a notable lack of Communication of Bad News (CBN) training for nurses, along with the absence of validated tools to assess this. The aim of this research is to design and validate an instrument to assess the communication of bad...
Background/Objectives: Care-oriented perspectives in the LGBTIQ+ community are essential to ensure adequate and comprehensive health care. This population faces multiple barriers imposed by society, including discrimination in access to healthcare se...
Background/Objectives: The complexity of modern healthcare requires teamwork. Healthcare teams must be cohesive to ensure efficient and quality care. The objective of this study was to validate the Spanish short version of the Group Environment Quest...
Background: Nurses report that they often must perform activities outside their area of expertise, referred to as “non-nursing tasks”. The time spent on simple tasks undermines nursing capacity, which is already challenged by the dramatic...
Background: Chronic kidney disease (CKD) has a significant impact on patients’ physical, psychological, and social well-being. Emotional disorders are common and contribute to a higher prevalence of symptoms compared to that in the general popu...
Background/Objectives: The progressive increase in the aging population highlights the need for interventions aimed at preserving cognitive health and overall well-being in older adults. This study aimed to assess the impact of a structured cognitive...
Background/Objectives: While drug dosage calculation is vital in nursing, research indicates nursing students often struggle with necessary mathematics competencies, a gap not previously explored in the Arab world. This study assessed the basic mathe...
Background: This study extends the theoretical framework based on the Cognitive–Affective Model of Immersive Learning (CAMIL) by incorporating flow state and cognitive absorption to investigate the effectiveness of virtual reality (VR) in nursi...
Access to healthcare services in rural areas of Peru remains a challenge, with marked differences compared to urban areas. Despite the importance of primary healthcare (PHC) in these communities, the rural population has a negative perception of the...
Previous studies suggest that nursing diagnoses (NDs) could predict clinical outcomes, such as mortality, among patients with non-communicable diseases. However, evidence in patients with COVID-19 is still scarce. Objective: To evaluate the associati...
Background/Objectives: Malnutrition among older adults remains a significant healthcare issue, yet existing questionnaires primarily measure knowledge and attitudes rather than actual behaviors. This study aimed to develop the Nursing Nutritional Car...
Background/Objectives: Prior studies have shown that most students seeking entry into a nursing program (also known as pre-nursing students) do not make it into the nursing profession, mostly due to failing one or more science courses in their first...
Background and purpose: When a family becomes aware of family symptoms, family resilience is defined as its power to autonomously and actively improve its own family functions. A quantitative assessment of family resilience is essential in the practi...
Background: Musculoskeletal problems contribute to nurse attrition, which compromises patient safety and costs healthcare organizations millions of dollars. Recent research describes a physical activity paradox in which high amounts of work-related p...
Background: The frequency of propensity score matching (PSM) use in research is exponentially increasing; however, its use in nursing has not yet been explored and is possibly underused. Methods: Synthetic knowledge synthesis has been used on two cor...
To effectively mitigate the health impacts of climate change, future nurses must be equipped with the requisite knowledge and competencies. Knowing their levels of eco-literacy would help to make them more effective. Background/Objectives: This descr...
Background: Person-centered care (PCC) approaches are widely recognized for improving the quality of life of residents living with dementia in long-term care (LTC). However, residents are only one part of the care dyad, and it remains unclear whether...
Background/Objectives: Self-care strategies enhance well-being and facilitate coping with emotional distress, particularly for palliative care professionals dealing with end-of-life issues. This study aimed to explore self-care practices among health...
Background: Nursing students must be able to enter clinical practice as safe, accurate, competent, and compassionate professionals. Objectives: The aim of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of simulation training on the satisfaction and...
Background: Nursing Schools are incorporating Mixed Reality (MR) into student training to enable them to confront challenging or infrequently encountered scenarios in their practice and ensure their preparedness. This systematic review evaluates the...
This paper presents a newly developed online learning program currently designed to meet the learning objectives of nurses and midwives and rare and undiagnosed disease. Background/Objectives: This paper will also introduce the Global Nursing Network...
