Background/Objectives: Patient- and family-initiated abuse of nurses is widely recognized as workplace violence, but it also raises a distinct professional-regulatory question: when may a nurse end or restrict an established therapeutic relationship...
Background/Objective: Island Health has offered a New Graduate Transition Program (NGTP) since 2005 and refreshed its existing curricular program for the 2022 to 2024 new nurse graduates as the BC healthcare system entered pandemic recovery. Methods:...
Background: Research on nursing interventions for breast cancer patients undergoing radiotherapy is increasing. However, comprehensive mapping and synthesis regarding the field’s overall knowledge structure and development remain limited. This...
Background: Breastfeeding enhances infant and maternal health, but global breastfeeding rates remain suboptimal. Virtual reality (VR) emerges as a promising tool for breastfeeding education. The objective of this review was to assess the effectivenes...
Background/Objectives: While previous research has explored the effects of moral distress and the work environment separately, there is limited evidence on how these two factors are associated with nurses’ turnover intention. Therefore, in this...
Background: This study examined how clinical nurses’ communication competence, grit, and leader–member exchange (LMX) contribute to nursing performance, aiming to identify key predictors to support workforce development and organizational...
Background/Aims: The increasing complexity of disasters requires effective integration of nurses into Civil Defense (CD) systems. Despite their crucial role, the competencies needed to operate within these multi-agency frameworks remain fragmented an...
Background: Patient-reported outcome comparisons require measurement equivalence, which is seldom tested in low- and middle-income country (LMIC) diabetes research. We examined equivalence of the Diabetes Self-Management Instrument-35 (DSMI-35), Diab...
Background: Culturally and Racially Marginalised (CaRM) communities in Australia encounter subtle and covert forms of prejudice, commonly referred to as “new racism”. Within healthcare settings, these experiences can shape trust, engageme...
Introduction: Remote education is increasingly used in ostomy care, but its components, timing, governance, and evaluation remain inconsistently defined. This study aimed to develop practice-oriented recommendations for implementing remote patient ed...
Background: Community-based mental health and social interventions focusing on housing stability, integrated care and psychosocial support are being increasingly recognised as essential for improving the mental health and wellbeing of people experien...
Background/Objectives: Recognizing and managing grief is particularly important in nursing, especially from the perspective of family caregivers. In this qualitative study, we aim to understand the grieving process of family caregivers, focusing on w...
Background: The legal dimensions of nursing practice have become increasingly complex, yet the concept of legal literacy in clinical nurses remains insufficiently defined. Existing studies use terms such as legal knowledge, legal awareness, legal cog...
Background/Objectives: Given the complexity of current healthcare, working in highly cohesive teams is essential. Clinical simulation can promote group cohesion among healthcare teams. There are different learning methodologies in simulated environme...
Background/Objectives: The escalation of psychiatric symptoms can pose risks to the safety of the patients and members of the health care team, particularly nursing staff who are in direct and constant contact with these patients whilst providing car...
Background: The perioperative context is characterized by high complexity and a significant risk of adverse events, requiring highly developed technical and non-technical competencies. Structured clinical supervision has been identified as a relevant...
Background: Black Sub-Saharan African immigrants are among the fastest-growing immigrant populations in the United States, and their mental health needs, particularly with respect to depression, remain understudied. Cultural beliefs, linguistic frame...
Background/Objectives: Maintaining oral hygiene in infants in neonatal and pediatric intensive care is essential for preventing ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP). Chlorhexidine (CHX) is widely used in adults but its safety and efficacy in infants...
Background/Objectives: Urinary catheterization is common across care settings, but safe management at home and during care transitions often depends on caregivers who receive limited and inconsistent training. Mobile health (mHealth) applications may...
Background: Operating room nurses are exposed to high levels of occupational stress, making them particularly vulnerable to burnout. Psychological resources such as self-esteem may play a protective role; however, evidence in perioperative settings r...
Background/Objectives: Improved survival rates have led to an increase in the number of children with medical complexity (CMC) receiving home-based care. However, there is a lack of clarity regarding the relationships among collaborative environments...
Background: Adults with type 2 diabetes increasingly use patient portals, telemonitoring systems, mobile applications, text messaging programs, and other digital services to support self-management. In practice, however, these approaches often still...
Background/Objectives: Tuberculosis (TB) treatment adherence remains suboptimal globally, contributing to relapse, transmission, and drug-resistant TB. Adherence is a culturally embedded behavioral process shaped by psychological readiness, social re...
Background/Objectives: Community health nursing (CHN) clinical experiences are essential for preparing undergraduate nursing students to deliver safe and effective home-based care; however, access to placements is often limited. Escape room simulatio...
Background: Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is the third leading cause of cancer-related mortality worldwide. Despite established guidelines recommending semiannual surveillance for high-risk patients, real-world adherence remains inconsistent. Gaps i...
Background/Objectives: Nutritional management is a core component of care for patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD), and nephrology nurses play a key role in education and clinical monitoring. However, how nurses develop and enact nutritional co...
Background/Objectives: Maternal mortality remains an important indicator of health inequities, reflecting social, regional, and racial inequalities, as well as the responsiveness of health systems. This study aimed to analyze and compare maternal mor...
Background/Objective: Service-learning is an educational methodology that has demonstrated benefits and effectiveness in nursing education, generating positive outcomes for both students and the community. However, its application in cardiopulmonary...
Background/Objectives: Delirium is a frequent and clinically significant complication in cardiac surgery patients and is associated with prolonged mechanical ventilation, longer Intensive Care Unit (ICU) stay, increased mortality, and long-term cogni...
Background: Sustained implementation of evidence-based practice (EBP) remains a challenge in complex clinical environments. Structured knowledge translation frameworks, such as the Knowledge-to-Action model (KTA), have been proposed to facilitate int...
Background: Providing effective peer feedback is a challenge in nursing education. While Generative AI (GenAI) can assist, students often struggle with the task. Metacognitive scaffolding may help guide students through this complex process. Aim: Thi...
Background: The expansion of telenursing in primary care requires undergraduate nursing programmes to prepare students for clinical decision making in virtual care. However, evidence on educational interventions integrating clinical reasoning with ma...
Background/Objectives. Country-level evidence on the economic footprint of home care nursing is still scarce, particularly in systems where tariffs for community-based nursing are lacking. In Italy, recent laws have expanded home care; yet planning a...
Background: Nurse Practitioners (NPs) are increasingly integrated into pediatric inpatient teams in response to evolving healthcare needs and workforce challenges. However, evidence describing how NP roles are operationalized, implemented, and sustai...
Background/Objectives: Skilled labor migration of nurses from low- and middle-income to high-income countries is a growing global phenomenon. While Germany increasingly recruits internationally trained nurses to address severe nursing shortages, exis...
Aim: This study aimed to evaluate self-reported digital health literacy levels and work engagement among nurses in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), while also examining associations with demographic factors and the interplay between digital health lit...
Background: The flipped classroom is an innovative student-centered teaching approach frequently applied in nursing education. The success of the approach relies on students coming prepared to class. Faculties play a critical role in facilitating stu...
Background: Specialized palliative care requires nursing professionals to address the complex physical, psychological, social and spiritual needs of patients with advanced incurable illness. This study aimed to assess the perceived adequacy of formal...
Background/Objectives: Dance-based programs have been shown to support psychological well-being in later life, yet evidence remains limited for dance-mediated psychomotor interventions. This study examined the effects of a 12-week creative-dance-medi...
Background: Population ageing has increased the number of older adults living in nursing homes, where loneliness and sleep disturbances are prevalent and negatively affect well-being. Evidence suggests a bidirectional relationship between loneliness...
Background/Objectives: Caregiver burden is a relevant dimension of the caregiving experience among informal caregivers of cancer patients and is associated with psychological, physical, and social consequences. Although several instruments are availa...
Introduction: Humanized care is a core indicator of nursing quality, yet its prevalence and determinants among Spanish undergraduates remain unclear. Methods: A cross-sectional survey was administered to fourth-year nursing students from public and p...
Objectives: To explore the experiences of ex-smokers acting as peer supporters delivering chat-based instant messaging smoking cessation support in a post- randomized controlled trial qualitative study. Methods: We used purposive sampling to recruit...
Introduction/Objective: Patient satisfaction with nursing care quality is an important patient-reported indicator of hospitalization experience. Previous studies have mainly examined sociodemographic, clinical, and organizational factors, while perso...
The organized integration of research competencies into nursing curricula is still a global challenge and is key for preparing professionals to respond to complex clinical contexts, technological advancements, and contemporary societal demands. At th...
Background: Violence in healthcare settings affects nursing students during clinical training and may compromise their mental well-being, learning experiences, and professional development. Despite evidence from high-income countries, limited data ex...
Background: Nursing students are at high risk of exposure to blood and body fluids due to limited clinical experience. Ensuring adequate knowledge and proper post-exposure protocols is vital for improving safety and post-exposure management. Aim: Thi...
Background/Objectives: The placement of central venous access devices, including peripherally inserted central catheters (PICCs) and PICC-PORTs, is a routine procedure in oncology care. Usually associated with limited physical pain, these procedures...
Background: Nurses’ job satisfaction is an important factor associated with motivation, retention, and performance, potentially influencing the quality and safety of healthcare delivery. Identifying organizational and professional determinants...
Background/Objectives: Nurse transition programmes are widely implemented to support newly hired nurses and promote workforce retention. Despite the growing number of published reviews, conceptual inconsistency and methodological heterogeneity limit...
