APPLIED NURSING RESEARCH

Emotion recognition and clinical empathy: An observational study of nurses
Shaw M, Bilog A, Reyes D, Klim G and Taylor EJ
To explore nurse ability to recognize emotion and its association with clinical empathy.
Health-related quality of life of children and adolescents with sickle cell disease: An evolutionary concept analysis
Pandarakutty S and Arulappan J
The concept of Health-Related Quality of life (HRQOL) of children and adolescents with Sickle cell disease (SCD) is not clearly understood due to the lack of available studies. This review aimed to elucidate various attributes and related concepts of HRQOL in children and adolescents with SCD using Rodgers' et al. (2018) concept analysis framework. A systematic search was performed to identify studies reporting the attributes, antecedents, consequences, surrogate terms, and related concepts of HRQOL in children and adolescents with SCD. The review included 75 articles, including 70 quantitative, two mixed-methods, and three qualitative studies. These were categorized into attributes, antecedents, consequences, surrogate terms, related concepts, and an exemplar of HRQOL in children and adolescents with SCD. The review identified nine important attributes. It includes multidimensional and dynamic concepts, acknowledging the illness, maintaining emotional balance and self-control, coping with the disease, pain management, stigma and discrimination, treatment burden, palliative care and personal resilience. The antecedents were knowledge and attitude toward the disease, self-efficacy, social support, spirituality and spiritual well-being, disease severity, access to healthcare, environmental factors, and financial considerations. The consequences were independence in personal life, improved physical health outcomes, psychological well-being, family and caregiver well-being, improved family, social and peer relationships and social interactions, improved school performance, and improved overall HRQOL and long-term outcomes. This analysis provides an overview of HRQOL concepts related to children and adolescents with SCD, guiding further research into nursing care and clinical practice.
Stress coping and resilience of frontline nurses under the emergency infectious disease pandemic: A latent class analysis
Yeh YC, Sheng WH, Pan MY, Liu HY, Liu CY and Chiou PY
This study aimed to classify coping strategies and resilience among nurses caring for COVID-19 patients using latent class analysis (LCA), and to compare variations across these subgroups.
Emergency department nurses' reflective thinking and patient safety competency: The mediating effect of patient safety culture
Park MN and Roh YS
This study aimed to identify the mediating effect of patient safety culture on the relationship between reflective thinking and patient safety competency in emergency department nurses.
Examining the effects of moral distress, compassion fatigue and burnout on intention to leave among nursing students in Hong Kong: A cross-sectional study
Cheng WL, Tang AC and Siu KL
Compassion fatigue and burnout have detrimental effects on nursing students. Moral distress has been recognized as a contributing factor to both, potentially impacting the intention to leave nursing programme.
Corrigendum to "A hybrid type 2 effectiveness-implementation design to evaluate a community-based, heart-healthy intervention for women of low-socioeconomic status" [Appl. Nurs. Res. 71, 2023, 151686]
Luft H, Brown R and Lauver D
What are the attitudes and perceptions of general practitioners about the role of nurse practitioners in the community care setting: A scoping review
Summers A
The Nurse Practitioner role in Australia is slowly expanding, with a well-established body of evidence supporting their introduction. Yet, there is a lack of consistent support from the medical profession for this role. Nurse Practitioners wishing to work in the community setting may, therefore, experience resistance from General Practitioners.
The role of personality, empathy, and the perception of the instructor's caring on nursing students' burnout: A cross-sectional study
Ardenghi S, Luciani M, Russo S, Rampoldi G, Bani M, Ausili D, Di Mauro S and Strepparava MG
The present study aimed to evaluate the contribution of personality, empathy, and the perception of instructor's caring in predicting burnout in nursing students.
Artificial intelligence in nursing practice - A Delphi study with ChatGPT
Bohn B and Anselmann V
The release of the open-source platform ChatGPT in November 2022 created massive interest in the possibilities of artificial intelligence-based chatbots. However, there is little knowledge about how artificial intelligence could be used in nursing practice.
Mental health misconceptions among at-risk populations: The case of hotel workers
Rosemberg MS, Li WV and Ratliff H
Most hotel workers represent disadvantaged populations in the United States. Socioecological stress-related factors increase the risk for poor mental health outcomes, yet accounts of worker perceptions of mental health are scarce.
Implementing MATRIX acuity tool to improve nursing satisfaction on a stroke and epilepsy monitoring unit
Ilao C, Nairon EB, Cuffee M and Olson DM
Nursing satisfaction is a critical component of effective patient care. In the Acute Stroke Unit (ASU) and Epilepsy Monitoring Unit (EMU), patients have specialized needs that require critical nursing skills. The purpose of this study was to examine nurse satisfaction after implementation of the MATRIX acuity tool.
Graduate pathways following nursing education during COVID-19
Fieger P and Rice J
The COVID-19 pandemic has exerted many effects on populations worldwide. Due to the nature of the pandemic, health and specifically nursing sectors have been particularly impacted. While the nursing sector had to grapple with the impact of the pandemic as well as associated government interventions, nursing students have experienced changes in their job prospects, satisfaction with their training and their propensity to engage in further studies, all impinging on the sustainability of nursing education. This study aims to analyze educational outcomes for nursing graduates undertaking VET (vocational education and training) programs in Australia. Impacts assessed include employment, satisfaction, and further study after completion. The paper is based on analysis of five large waves of a comprehensive survey of Australian vocational education completers, from 2018 to 2022 inclusive. We develop three separate logistic regression models for the outcomes of employment, satisfaction, and enrollment in further study in order to estimate the predictive margins for the interactions between year and field of education, including the Diploma of Nursing, all other health qualifications, and all other qualifications. Our results show that these graduates saw significantly improved employment outcomes and heightened satisfaction during and after the pandemic, pointing to the sector meeting sustainability challenges. Interestingly, enrolment in further studies, after a notable increase earlier in the pandemic, returned to pre-pandemic levels as the crises abated.
Changes in nutritional status and fatigue and their associations with quality of life in patients with pancreatic cancer after surgery: A 12-month longitudinal study
Hsu LF, Lee YH, Yang HY, Chou YJ, Tien YW, Liu CY and Shun SC
This study examined changes in nutritional status, fatigue, and quality of life, and identified longitudinal factors influencing changes in quality of life in patients with pancreatic cancer before and 12 months after surgery.
An exploratory study of nursing tasks that induce physical and mental stress among hospital nurses
Kang Y and Jin A
Nursing tasks are major contributing factors of nurses' stress. Identifying these stress-inducing tasks by hospital and department is the first step in devising practical strategies to address this issue.
Are male nurses oppressed? A forum theater application: A quasi-experimental study
Uzun LN and Tok HH
Male nurses in clinical and educational settings are discriminated against. It is thought that perceiving the current situation of minority male nurses, who have the potential for social exclusion and oppression, and positively developing the perceptions of nursing students who are at the beginning of their professionalization lives, will contribute to the professionalization of future members of the profession.
Online recruitment for an online survey study: Our experience of dealing with fraudsters
Lei F
Online recruitment is cost efficient and can reach large sample size. It helps protect participants' privacy and confidentiality and is commonly used in research studies with sensitive topics and hard-to-reach target participants. However, widespread fraudulent responses along with missing data and multiple entries add complication to the data cleaning and analysis. This clinical-methods-brief described our experience of dealing with fraudsters in the recruitment process of an online study.
The impact of exclusive breastfeeding on breastfeeding duration
Mikołajczyk-Stecyna J
While breastfeeding is globally recommended, its duration still represents a public health issue.
Needed competence for registered nurses working at a patient-centred telehealth service aimed to engage and empower people living with COPD: A five-month participatory observational study
Schmidt CW, Wegener EK and Kayser L
The global population of older aged 65 and over is increasing, which means an increase in people living with long-term health conditions and multimorbidity. Implementing new digital health technologies enables increased patient empowerment and responsibility, and the ability to respond to changes in their condition themselves, with less involvement of healthcare professionals. Important parameters need to be addressed for this digitally enabled empowerment to be successful, these include increased individual and organizational health literacy, the establishment of joint decision-making activities among patients and healthcare professionals, and efforts that target the individual's ability to manage their condition, which include education to increase skills and providing technology for self-monitoring.
Effects of a nurse-led aftercare telehealth programme on sleep and psychological outcomes of adult burn survivors: A randomized controlled trial
Bayuo J, Wong FKY and Chung LYF
Burn survivors often experience a plethora of post-burn residual needs following their discharge including psychological issues and poor sleep. These needs are often overlooked with a significant focus on resolving physical issues. Aftercare support is particularly limited. The emergence of the Coronavirus pandemic worsened the situation as burn survivors were unable to return to utilise available services outpatient basis. Thus, an innovative nurse-led aftercare programme was developed and delivered via WeChat social medial platform. The current study sought to examine the effects of the intervention on anxiety, depression, and sleep pattern among adult burn survivors.
The effect of an educational intervention on perioperative registered nurse's knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors towards pressure injury prevention in surgical patients
Tallier PC, Reineke PR and Choonoo JG
Pressure injuries continue to be a significant problem in perioperative patients. Surgical patients are particularly at risk due to lack of mobility and sensation during surgery and the early recovery period. The AORN (2024) recommends that healthcare organizations develop a comprehensive prevention program that includes risk assessment, prevention, and education.
The mediating role of social support on the relationship between secondary traumatic stress and burnout of nurses caring for COVID-19 patients: A cross-sectional study
Shaqiqi W and Abou El-Soud FA
Social support can help nurses cope with occupational stress and trauma, and maintain overall well-being, particularly in stressful situations such as outbreaks.