2025 July - 42 articles
Background: More than three years have elapsed since the onset of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine by the Russian Federation, displacing millions of Ukrainians. While preserving cultural identity in the host country is important for gaining resilie...
Hip fractures in elderly patients pose significant clinical challenges, confronting us with high morbidity and mortality rates. A comprehensive geriatric assessment plays an important role in determining prognosis as well as the indication for surger...
Background: Around one-quarter of all people in the developed world die of cancer, with primary care being the main setting in which the disease is first suspected because the majority of patients consult a general practitioner (GP) when they present...
Background: Family involvement in promoting patient safety is a strategy that is increasingly recognized. Nurses have a major role to play here. This study aims to know the family care process developed by nurses and explore the logistic process iden...
Background/Objectives: Pressure injuries (PIs), a recognized indicator of care quality, have a higher incidence in intensive care units (ICUs). Our objective was to assess whether critically ill patients identified as “unprotected” (COMHO...
Background/Objectives: Evidence-based practice (EBP) has been widely adopted in clinical nursing practice, with nursing education efforts consistently emphasizing its importance in strengthening implementation efforts. Despite these efforts to promot...
Background/Objectives: Psychological safety is essential for effective learning in high-fidelity simulation (HFS); however, no validated Japanese instrument currently exists to measure psychological safety among nursing students. This study aimed to...
Background/Objectives: The Jackson/Cubbin scale is a recommended tool to assess the risk of pressure injury in intensive care unit (ICU) patients. This scale is deemed to have superior predictive validity compared to the Braden scale. Many Italian nu...
Background: After an older person moves into a nursing home, the next of kin often continues to participate in the care provided there. This participation in care may contribute valuable knowledge of the preferences and wishes of the older person, th...
Objectives: This study aims to explore the experiences of bereaved family members during and after the loss of a relative in an intensive care unit (ICU) during the COVID-19 pandemic-related visitation restrictions, as well as to assess their percept...
Background/Objectives: In contemporary nursing education, clinical competence and psychological resilience are both essential; however, they are often treated as separate outcomes. Clinical placements are a central component of nursing education, and...
Background/Objectives: In Australia, attrition rates in undergraduate nursing degrees have been increasing nationally. The aim of this study was to explore if and how clinical laboratory-based peer-assisted learning (PAL) improved the first-year nurs...
Elena Sblendorio was not included as an author in the original publication [...]
Background/Objectives: The role of the primary health care nurse has evolved since the Spanish Ministry of Health officially established the professional profile of the nurse specialist in Primary Health Care in 2005. Despite the potential benefits o...
Introduction: Work life quality (WLQ) in nursing is a critical factor that influences both staff well-being and the quality of care provided to patients. Spiritual intelligence (SI) and servant leadership (SL) have been identified as potential positi...
Technological advancement has radically transformed higher education, requiring faculty members to continually adapt to new tools and teaching methods. In this context, the phenomenon of fear of missing out (FoMO) has gained relevance, often manifest...
Background: The leadership style employed by those in positions with authority could significantly impact employees’ work behavior, either positively or negatively. Objectives: The aim of the study was to examine the impact of engaging leadersh...
The aim of this work is to explore and understand the lived experience of nurses who chose to schedule visits with an Emotional Support Animal (ESA), i.e., a dog, during their working shift. Background/Objectives: Nursing practice is rigorous, weight...
Background: Violence against healthcare professionals is a growing public health concern. In Spain, the National Observatory of Aggressions recorded 16,866 cases in 2024, marking a 103.06% increase since 2017. This phenomenon has intensified in recen...
Background: It is generally well-known that narration of care is critically important to high-quality nursing care. Narration of care is loosely defined as a nurse’s ability to describe to patients and families the clinical purpose behind nursi...
Surgical Site Infection (SSI) can be a devastating complication, leading to increased morbidity, mortality, and healthcare costs. Pre-surgical hand preparation is an effective strategy to prevent SSI. The two most common pre-surgical hand preparation...
Background/Objectives: This study protocol outlines the implementation of a professional development programme (ProDeveloP) designed to support newly graduated nurses (NGNs). NGNs often experience inadequacy and face challenges in developing their pr...
Background: Work engagement is essential to the well-being of nurses and the quality of health care, particularly in high-demand urban hospital environments in Bangkok. To determine the levels of work engagement—vigor, dedication, and absorptio...
Background/Objectives: Preventive health behaviors are key to disease prevention and health system sustainability; however, population-level factors remain understudied in multilingual regions. South Tyrol, an autonomous multilingual province in Nort...
Background/Objectives: Quiet Quitting (QQ) describes a state of reduced workplace engagement characterized by a lack of motivation and initiative. Employees practicing QQ typically limit their efforts to fulfilling only their assigned tasks, expendin...
Background/Objectives: The under-five mortality rate (U5MR) remains a serious health challenge in Indonesia, with low birth weight (LBW) being a key risk factor. This study aimed to identify predictors of survival among under-five children with LBW u...
Background: Sexual assault affects millions globally each year, yet research on survivors’ resilience remains limited and methodologically inconsistent. Resilience after sexual assault is a multidimensional and deeply personal process shaped by...
Background: The concept of evidence-based practice (EBP) is globally relevant in current healthcare climates. However, nursing students and teachers often struggle with integrating EBP effectively into a curriculum. This has implications for the way...
Background/Objectives: Inequalities in access to nursing professionals represent a significant challenge to achieving equity in healthcare systems. In decentralized countries like Italy, disparities in the distribution of nurses persist despite a uni...
Workplace violence is a widespread issue affecting hospital nursing staff and significantly undermines their psychological well-being. Such violence originates from various sources, including users, colleagues, and supervisors. Psychological resilien...
Background: Cancer is a worldwide public health issue that impacts individuals in many ways. Family caregivers (FCGs) play a crucial role in providing care for cancer patients; as a result, they face several challenges as caregivers that sometimes go...
Background: Nurses play a crucial role in health promotion (HP) policy and in encouraging healthy behaviors. However, challenges persist in effectively integrating HP as a core component of healthcare systems and nursing practice. Therefore, it is es...
Background: Symptoms of and treatments for inflammatory bowel disease have an impact on patients’ health-related quality of life and result in a need for self-care strategies. Little is known about factors affecting long-term outcomes and the t...
Introduction: Few applications worldwide focus on psychosocial rehabilitation, and none specifically address psychosocial rehabilitation projects. This justifies the need for an application to assist mental health professionals in constructing and ma...
Background/Objectives: Self-care in people with diabetes requires constant physical and emotional effort, which can be a barrier to adhering to the care plan. The sense of coherence (SOC) might play a role in self-care. This study aimed to examine th...
Background/Objectives: Missed outpatient appointments contribute to care discontinuity and emergency department (ED) overcrowding. This study investigated the association between missed appointments and ED visits, identifying predictors such as patie...
Background: Chronic diseases negatively impact health outcomes and are attributed to elevated morbidity and mortality throughout the world. Rural populations are disproportionately affected by chronic diseases and have limited access to health progra...
Background/Objective: Nurses play a critical role in addressing climate change. They are instrumental in both mitigation and adaptation to its effects. Through care provision, education, management, policy development, and research, nurses can undert...
Background/Objectives: Work engagement is essential for quality care and workforce retention in professional nursing. While job demands–resources theory has guided extensive research on job-related antecedents, personal resources have received...
Background: The nursing practice environment significantly influences nurses’ job satisfaction, turnover, and burnout; therefore, it is essential to promote favorable environments to ensure the retention of qualified professionals. Improving th...
Background/Objectives: Employment instability is increasingly recognized as an organizational stressor, yet its combined effect on nurse burnout, humanized care, and work engagement is poorly quantified. This study investigates those relationships an...
Background: Unlike other chronic diseases, cancer patients undergo different types of treatments that affect their well-being, and as a result, they tend to have different experiences from those of other chronic disease sufferers. The purpose of this...
