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Patients with serious illnesses require continuous care from professionals in multiple settings. The care transition interventions aim to promote the safe and timely transfer of patient care across settings th...
Nursing is a comprehensive discipline that applies principles from the natural and social sciences to diagnose and address existing or potential health problems and their responses. The morale and productivity...
Green management practices are essential for organizational sustainability, and their adoption in hospitals can help reduce environmental impact. Organizational citizenship behavior further enhances green mana...
Nursing education comprises theory and practice as two complementary parts. In Ghana, the clinical education space is inundated with many challenges, disrupting the intended purpose of clinical education. The ...
Organizational citizenship behavior and quality of work life of nurses are influential factors in improving health care services provided by nurses. The leadership style of head nurses is a key factor in enhan...
Specialist nurses’ core competencies are crucial for pediatric asthma management, yet no evaluation system exists for these competencies.
Paradoxical leadership, which strikes a balance between control and flexibility, is becoming more and more acknowledged as being essential for promoting nurses’ career maturity, adaptation, and continuous deve...
Suicide prevention is a worldwide challenge, and an emergency department (ED) visit is a key moment to prevent subsequent suicide risk. Previous studies reported the effectiveness of safety plan interventions ...
Nurses must possess professional competency and moral courage to ensure the excellence of care and safety for patient, communicate effectively with other healthcare staff, and promote the establishment of cons...
The psychological conditions of nursing students are quite important, and professional identity is an important part of the stable development of the nursing profession. Nursing students’ sense of coherence, a...
Effective patient handoffs are critical for maintaining patient safety and care continuity in healthcare settings. This quasi-experimental study aimed to assess the impact of an educational intervention on imp...
Registered nurses lead the nursing care close to older adults in home healthcare. It is expected that there will be an increased need for home healthcare. In addition, more advanced care is now being performed...
Pediatric nursing is a specialized field that requires not only the provision of care to children, who are a unique group, but also the roles of advocacy and prevention, in addition to modern nursing roles. As...
Systematic integration of nursing staff perspectives constitutes a critical determinant of organizational efficacy. However, more and more studies showed that organizational silence occurred among nurses frequ...
Prior studies suggest that traditional teaching methods often fail to accommodate students’ individual differences, needs, problem-solving skills, and cooperative learning abilities. This study evaluates the e...
To explore the global prevalence of varicose veins among healthcare workers and their associated risk factors.
The care needs of older adults with mild dementia have not been studied in depth. In this study, we investigated the impairment status of patients with mild dementia and analyzed the care needs of patients wit...
Emotional intelligence (EI) is crucial in stress management and overall well-being. Emotions are integral to delivering high-quality clinical care, as they facilitate reflective thinking, which is essential fo...
Junior nurses constitute the backbone of the nursing workforce, and their reflective ability is essential for clinical decision-making, as well as for driving innovation and improvement in nursing practices. A...
Conduct a systematic review to analyse how nursing informatics influence patient safety outcomes in critical care settings.
Perceived overqualification is an emerging challenge in the nursing workforce, influencing job satisfaction, psychological well-being, and overall retention. This study aims to examine the relationships among ...
Despite nurses being the backbone of patient care, medication administration errors (MAEs) remain a serious risk to patient safety in low-income countries, including Ethiopia. However, the previous review was ...
Young transgender persons who attend school are especially exposed to harassment, bullying, discrimination and violence in the school environment, experiencing an increased sense of mental and physical ill-hea...
Cultural competence is an essential skill for nursing students to provide effective care in multicultural healthcare settings. Despite the availability of various tools globally, there are limited number of va...
The relationship between workplace ostracism and innovative work behavior is a relatively new area of research. How ostracism influences nurses’ willingness to suggest new ideas or adopt innovative practices i...
A nurse’s clinical handover is an important and complex form of communication in healthcare organizations that involves the exchange of patient-related information during shift change. Nurse-to-nurse clinical han...
In this era of rapid development in science and technology, creativity has become an important requirement in nursing to satisfy the daily needs of their patients. However, nurses’ creativity and related aspec...
Moral courage is a key factor in accelerating the implementation of moral behavior. Effective ethical leadership can enhance head nurses’ moral competence—particularly moral sensitivity, which serves as a corn...
The service behavior of nurses is highly important for enhancing the level of hospital nursing care. However, there is currently a lack of research exploring the impact of moral sensitivity on the service beha...
Emotional intelligence incorporates important aspects of human connections to develop self-management ability which can boost individual performance. However, existing literature lacks a comprehensive assessme...
Currently, the physical and mental health of nursing staff in China is not optimistic and cannot be ignored. Meanwhile, the tense nurse-patient relationship imposes higher demands on the emotional labor of nur...
Student nurse absenteeism has become a significant challenge when allocated in clinical areas in public and private nursing higher education institutions worldwide. This study aimed to explore registered nurse...
Nurses’ work values constitute the core driving force of their professional careers. These values deeply reflect an individual’s comprehensive understanding of the nursing profession, positive attitudes toward...
Honesty is considered a desirable trait that can impact happiness and job performance. The clinical environment can present ethical challenges for nurses. A lack of honesty can lead to significant issues for b...
School nurses perform a unique role by providing health care to all children and adolescents. In Norway, their activities are regulated by the National Professional Guidelines for Health Promotion and Preventi...
Nurses’ evidence-based practice competencies were positively correlated with the implementation leadership (IL) of head nurses. However, there was no study to analyze the effect of IL on nurses’ evidence-based...
County-level hospitals are the main providers of health services in rural areas in China. On the eve of the Chinese government’s plan to lift the Zero-COVID policy, a number of healthcare workers in county-lev...
There is a lack of systematic evaluations of the diversity and effectiveness of interventions to prevent workplace bullying. This cross-sectional study aimed to investigate the relationships among self-conscio...
The incidence of cyberbullying among adolescents has been increasing significantly each year, causing negative psychological impacts such as anxiety, low self-esteem, and depression. Mental health nurses play ...
Nursing students often encounter ethical dilemmas throughout their professional training, which can pose challenges to their development. These dilemmas may lead to questioning professional values, hesitation ...
Resilience is the ability to adapt and implement effective actions to maintain mental health during adversity, benefiting patients when exhibited by nurses. It encompasses personal and environmental factors. H...
Complications following common bile duct exploration for managing gallstones or choledocholithiasis negatively impact patients’ quality of life. Occasionally, high-quality nursing care is necessary to either i...
Early-career registered nurses within their first five years of practice, experience the highest turnover rates in the nursing profession, with 20 to 40% leaving their jobs within the first two years. These hi...
The first clinical experience in a hospital setting can be highly stressful for nursing students, often leading to significant anxiety. Addressing this issue requires effective interventions to help students t...
Providing palliative care is one of the most essential responsibilities of nurses toward patients and their families. To fulfill this role effectively, nurses require specific skills to understand patients bet...
Few studies have captured the impact of inadequate nurse staffing levels and broader health patient conditions in admitted patients during the COVID-19 pandemic. We aimed to determine the association between n...
Coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery is one of the most effective treatments for coronary artery disease. Despite its many benefits, this surgery can also lead to potential complications. Studies have s...
Intern nursing students are facing considerable psychological burdens, which impact their mental well-being and career progression. Although numerous studies have explored the psychological status of intern nu...
Pressure injuries can greatly affect a patient’s health, safety, and quality of life. The knowledge and attitudes of nurses towards preventing pressure injuries are vital for providing safe, high-quality healt...
In 2022, only 1.7% of nurses in Croatian healthcare were employed at a job defined as a Master of Nursing (MN) graduate. In the current labour market, most MN graduates in Croatia cannot hope for salary increa...
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