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Papers a nurse can act on, across critical and emergency care, medical-surgical, mental health, paediatrics and neonatal, maternity, older adults, community and primary care, and oncology and palliative care. Each is read in full rather than from its abstract.

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• RNQualitative2024"A great step in treating cervical cancer": Patient and provider perceptions about cervical cancer therapeutic vaccines.Patient education and counselingPatients and providers were open to therapeutic cervical cancer vaccines, seeing them as less invasive options with fewer side effects. However, acceptance depended on clear information about how the vaccines work, costs, and eligibility. Mistrust and logistical barriers remained significant concerns.
• RNSurvey2024Illness perceptions and blood pressure control among hypertensive Filipino Americans: A cross-sectional study.Journal of the American Association of Nurse PractitionersMore threatening beliefs about high blood pressure were linked to stage 2 high blood pressure in hypertensive Filipino Americans. Ask patients what they fear and believe about high blood pressure, then tailor education and medication support.
• RNOther2024Feasibility and Effectiveness of Virtual Group Advance Care Planning Visits During the COVID-19 Pandemic.The American journal of hospice & palliative careGoals-of-care conversations were documented for 100% in-person and 93% virtual participants after a program that included group visits, mailed materials, pre-visit calls, physician facilitation, volunteer and clinic staff support, family members, and document scanning, but only attendees were followed.
• RNOther2025Patient-Provider Trust as a Key Component of Prenatal Screening for Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACES): A Concept Analysis.Journal of midwifery & women's healthPrenatal ACE screening is described as trust-supporting when offered after several visits, by a familiar provider, with privacy, explanation, and permission before charting. Themes from 32 papers describe conditions, not proof screening improves outcomes.
• RNSurvey2025Parents' perceptions of care quality at child health centres: A cross-sectional study from Sweden.Journal of clinical nursingSwedish parents rated child health centre care as generally good, but reported significant gaps in advice on breastfeeding, sleep, behaviour, crying, dental care and allergy prevention. They also felt care was driven more by staff routines than their own needs.
• RNSurvey2025Economic, Psychological, and Emotional Well-Being of Pregnant Women During the COVID-19 Pandemic.Journal of midwifery & women's healthPregnant women who worried about losing their home, could not afford basics, or had COVID-19 were more likely to report elevated depressive symptoms. Housing insecurity was strongest among those with infection.
• RNOther2025Safeguarding adults: A concept analysis.Journal of advanced nursingAdult safeguarding has no internationally agreed definition. The review proposes 12 principles, including empowerment, prevention, protection, proportionality, partnership, accountability, care, compassion, courage, communication, competence, and critical reflection.
• RNCohort2025Trajectories of quality of life among disaster victims: A national longitudinal study.International nursing reviewThree years after disasters, 77 of 257 victims stayed at low quality of life. Higher education, no disaster injury/illness, better self-rated health, more social support, and less social maladjustment were linked to staying in the high group.
• RNQualitative2025Family members' conceptions of their supportive care needs across the colorectal cancer trajectory - A phenomenographic study.Journal of advanced nursingFamily members of people with colorectal cancer described seeing their own support needs as unimportant, expecting professionals to meet them, or recognizing them only later. Needs were left unmet when nobody assessed them or they did not know where to turn.
• SLPRNCase Report2025Lack of Immediate Diagnosis and Appropriate Intervention Leads to Malnutrition in an Infant With Cleft Palate.Journal of pediatric health care : official publication of National Association of Pediatric Nurse Associates & PractitionersA missed cleft palate diagnosis and lack of early feeding advice led to mild malnutrition in an infant. Switching to a cleft-adapted bottle reduced feeding time from 60 to 20 minutes and improved weight z-scores, allowing timely surgery.
• RNCohort2024Complex Patterns of Antihypertensive Treatment Changes in Long-Term Care Residents.Journal of the American Medical Directors AssociationMost long-term care residents had antihypertensive medication changes within six months of admission. Deprescribing was triggered by low blood pressure, falls, and weight loss, while intensification followed high blood pressure or cardiac events. Frequent changes marked complex health but did not prove benefit.
• RNOther2024Implementing a Frailty-Specific Postoperative Order Set to Improve Postoperative Outcomes in Frail Adults After Elective Thoracic Surgery.Journal of nursing care qualityA frailty postoperative order set increased frailty-related order use and nurse awareness, but hospital length of stay, complications, and 30-day readmissions did not change for frail and prefrail patients.
• RNCohort2024Pain, Return to Community Status, and 90-Day Mortality Among Hospitalized Patients With Heart Failure.The Journal of cardiovascular nursingPatients hospitalized with heart failure who had a pain diagnosis at discharge were less likely to return home or community, even after accounting for age, comorbidities, symptoms, and length of stay. Pain did not predict 90-day mortality.
• OTRNSystematic Review2024Psycho-social Stressors Experienced by Young war Refugees in Developed Countries: A Scoping Review.The Canadian journal of nursing research = Revue canadienne de recherche en sciences infirmieresYoung war refugees in developed countries faced stressors before, during and after migration, especially language barriers, separation, discrimination, money worries and strained parent-child relationships. These stressors shape mental health and daily participation.
• RNQualitative2024Parents' Perceptions of Schools' COVID-19 Mitigation Strategies: A Phenomenological Study.The Journal of school healthParents who were more or less accepting of school masking both valued in-person learning and disliked inconsistent COVID policies. Higher-acceptability parents mostly stayed supportive; some lower-acceptability parents grew skeptical.
• RNQualitative2024Patient perspectives on liver transplant evaluation: A qualitative study.Patient education and counselingPatients undergoing liver transplant evaluation described feeling overwhelmed by many tests and unclear provider roles. They wanted information timed to their stage, delivered in their preferred format, and help coordinating questions among the transplant team.
• RNCohort2024Rural-urban and racial differences in cesarean deliveries before and during the COVID-19 pandemic in South Carolina.MidwiferyBlack birthing people in urban hospitals were more likely to have a low-risk cesarean than White birthing people before and during the pandemic. The study did not show that the pandemic consistently widened these gaps.
• RNOther2024Disparities in cancer clinical trials information-seeking: Findings from the National Cancer Institute's Cancer Information Service.Patient education and counseling27.5% of cancer information service contacts discussed clinical trials, mostly by survivors and caregivers. Spanish-language contacts were less likely to do so, and phone or LiveHelp channels were common.
• RNProtocol2025Agreement between patient-reported and clinically documented symptoms of acute myeloid leukemia: Study protocol.Journal of advanced nursingNo results are available yet. This protocol plans to compare symptoms reported by hospitalized adults with acute myeloid leukemia against health record notes and flowsheets.
• RNQualitative2025A nurse-led model of care to improve access to contraception and abortion in rural general practice: Co-design with consumers and providers.Journal of advanced nursingRural consumers and clinicians prioritised stigma reduction, sensitive booking, privacy, nurse-led assessment and follow-up, and clear GP backup in a draft nurse-led model for medication abortion and implant contraception. The model was not tested.
• RNSystematic Review2025An evaluation of conceptual frameworks to improve reproductive health outcomes among women with physical disabilities.Journal of advanced nursingOnly two conceptual frameworks exist for reproductive health in women with physical disabilities. One covers pregnancy and structural factors; the other covers broader reproductive lifespan and patient-reported outcomes. Neither offers tested clinical interventions.
• RNSurvey2025Antenatal Care Visits, Institutional Births, and Associated Risk Factors in Afghanistan: Insights from the Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey 2022-2023.Journal of midwifery & women's healthIn Afghanistan, only 40% of surveyed women had 4 or more antenatal visits, and 4 or more visits were linked with facility birth. Rural, low-wealth, and less educated women were less likely to give birth in facilities.
• RNOther2025Does synthetic data augmentation improve the performances of machine learning classifiers for identifying health problems in patient-nurse verbal communications in home healthcare settings?Journal of nursing scholarship : an official publication of Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of NursingSynthetic patient-nurse conversations generated by GPT-4 did not clearly improve home healthcare health-problem detection models. Some problems were detected better, others worse, and patient outcomes were not tested.
• RNRCT2024Effectiveness of the transitional care model in total knee arthroplasty patients: A randomized controlled trial.International journal of nursing practiceNurse-led transitional care after knee replacement improved function and self-efficacy more than usual care at follow-up, and fewer hospital visits at a post-discharge time point. The package included education, counselling, phone follow-up and exercise reminders.
• RNCohort2024Atrial Fibrillation and Older Age Predict Serum Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor Levels Among Patients With Heart Failure.The Journal of cardiovascular nursingPatients with heart failure and atrial fibrillation had lower serum BDNF levels over 8 months than those without AF. Older age also predicted lower BDNF. These biomarker changes may signal cognitive risk, but the study did not test treatments or outcomes.
• RNCohort2024Highly Sensitized Kidney Transplant Outcomes After the 2014 Kidney Allocation System Change.Progress in transplantation (Aliso Viejo, Calif.)The 2014 kidney allocation change was associated with more deceased donor kidney transplants for highly sensitized patients and better first-year graft survival, but long-term death-censored graft failure was similar to before and higher than in low-risk recipients after year one.
• RNQualitative2024Primary care providers' views of discussing COVID-19 vaccination with vaccine hesitant patients: A qualitative study.Patient education and counselingMost primary care providers found facts and statistics ineffective with staunchly vaccine-hesitant patients. They reported that expressing empathy and offering the vaccine on-site during the visit were the only approaches they felt actually worked.
• RNSystematic Review2024Effect of Routine Nurse Caregiving on the Stress Responses and Behavior State in Preterm Infants: A Systematic Review.Advances in neonatal care : official journal of the National Association of Neonatal NursesRoutine NICU caregiving for preterm infants, such as diaper changes, bathing, and suctioning, was associated with stress signs and disrupted sleep. Swaddling and clustered care may reduce stress signs, but evidence is limited and care was often bundled.
• RNSurvey2024Anxiety Symptoms and Disease Severity in Parkinson Disease.The Journal of neuroscience nursing : journal of the American Association of Neuroscience NursesIn 72 people with Parkinson disease, higher self-reported disease severity, being off or wearing off medication, and younger age were linked to more anxiety symptoms. Anxiety and severity were mild to mild-moderate.
• RNCohort2024Acute Care Use Among Patients With Multiple Chronic Conditions Receiving Care From Nurse Practitioner Practices in Health Professional Shortage Areas.Nursing researchOlder adults with multiple chronic conditions receiving care in nurse practitioner practices in shortage areas had an 8% higher likelihood of emergency department visits than those in non-shortage areas. This difference remained after adjusting for patient demographics, socioeconomic status, and practice capabilities. Hospitalization rates showed no significant difference after adjustment.
• RNCohort2025Skin tears in older patients in intensive care units: A multicentre point prevalence study.Nursing in critical careSkin tears were found in 14.5% of older ICU patients, most often on the hand. They were more common with pale, cold, low-turgor skin, prior tears, incontinence, reduced consciousness, higher fall risk and lower Braden score.
• RNQualitative2025'In our culture, we come when you die': Qualitative descriptive analysis of end-of-life perspectives in a reservation-based community.Journal of advanced nursingFamilies and public health nurses, not hospitals, carry end-of-life care on this reservation. Participants trusted nurses and cultural leaders over system providers, citing fear of medication errors and a lack of local hospice facilities as key barriers to home care.
• RNSurvey2025Nurse judgements of hospitalized patients' safety concerns are affected by patient, nurse and event characteristics: A factorial survey experiment.Journal of clinical nursingNurses judged medication errors as more credible and concerning than miscommunications. However, when harm was absent, they reported low-income patients more often than high-income ones. When harm was present, they reported Black patients more often than White patients.
• RNOther2025The Caring Life Course Theory: Opening new frontiers in care-A cardiac rehabilitation example.Journal of advanced nursingRural cardiac rehabilitation patients and clinicians reported care needs, self-care, family networks, capability and support from others as closely linked. Personal care history and fundamental care were less linked.
• RNSurvey2025"I Often Just Don't Know what to Say!": Variations in Multidisciplinary Palliative Care Clinicians' Confidence and Needs Related to Spiritual Care.The American journal of hospice & palliative carePalliative clinicians reported moderate confidence in spiritual care but struggled with children, Pagan patients, and spiritual needs compared to other domains. Nurses and social workers had lower confidence than chaplains. Staff requested training in communication, cultural humility, and assessment tools.
• RNNarrative Review2025Antibiotic Use at the End of Life: Current Practice and Ways to Optimize.The American journal of hospice & palliative careAntibiotics are common near the end of life, but they do not reliably relieve symptoms except in some urinary tract infections. They can add burden, side effects, and resistance. Discuss goals, prognosis, and comfort-focused options before starting or continuing them.
• RNQualitative2025The role of 'familiarity' and 'normality' in supporting transition to end of life care in paediatric oncology: A qualitative study.Journal of advanced nursingBereaved parents and staff described familiarity and normality as important during transition to end-of-life care: staying with known staff, home-like routines, and charity accommodation were valued. No treatment effect was tested.
• RNSystematic Review2025The perceptions and experiences of community nurses and patients towards shared decision-making in the home setting: An integrative review.Journal of advanced nursingCommunity nurses and patients valued shared decision-making, but observed home nursing practice varied widely. Nurses often focused on assessing problems, while patients wanted to be listened to and trusted before choices were made.
• RNSurvey2024Association Between Insomnia and Cognitive Frailty Among Older Patients With Chronic Heart Failure: Multiple Mediating Effects of Depressive Symptoms and Social Support.The Journal of cardiovascular nursingIn older patients with chronic heart failure, insomnia was associated with cognitive frailty, and depressive symptoms were part of that link. Ask about sleep and mood, but do not assume treating them prevents frailty.
• RNCohort2024Telemedicine Utilization Among Residents With Alzheimer Disease and Related Dementia: Association With Nursing Home Characteristics.Journal of the American Medical Directors AssociationDuring the pandemic, telemedicine use among nursing home residents with dementia fell from 35.0% to 9.3%. Facilities with more Black residents used less telemedicine after the early pandemic; rural homes used less early but more later than metropolitan homes.
• OTSLPRNSystematic Review2024Impact of Cognitive Rehabilitation on Cognitive and Functional Outcomes in Adult Cancer Survivors: A Systematic Review.Seminars in oncology nursingCognitive rehabilitation programs for adult cancer survivors reported improvements in cognitive tests and self-reported thinking, but real-world function was rarely measured and benefits over control were inconsistent. Strategy training may help patients report better thinking; computer training may help processing speed.
• RNQualitative2024"If it has happened once, it can happen again". The impact of previous pregnancy loss on anxious women's ongoing pregnancies: A qualitative study from Pakistan.MidwiferyMany anxious women after miscarriage or stillbirth feared hospitals and feared another loss. Some felt blamed, watched fetal movements, and sought checkups, vitamins, or prayer.
• RNRCT2024Not all cost conversations are the same: An exploration of potential value in cost conversations during Atrial fibrillation treatment decision making.Patient education and counselingTwo-way cost talks about insurance, lifestyle and future costs appeared to help AF patients discover their personalized cost burden; one-way cost readings left patients passive. The study did not test whether this improved choices or adherence.
• PTOTSLPRNCohort2024Crosswalk Algorithms for Cognitive and Functional Outcomes Among 2013-2018 Medicare Beneficiaries With Dementia.Journal of the American Medical Directors AssociationHome health admission scores often disagree with nursing facility discharge scores for patients with dementia. Cognitive impairment can be ruled out reliably using specific OASIS items, but ADL limitations are over-identified, making cross-setting comparisons unreliable.
• RNRCT2024The effect of web-designed education on medication adherence, asthma control and fatigue in patients with asthma: A randomized controlled trial.International journal of nursing practiceMedication adherence did not improve between groups, but patients assigned to a web education program had better asthma control and less fatigue than those receiving usual care.
• PTRNPilot2024Paramedic-Assisted Community Evaluation After Discharge: The PACED Intervention.Journal of the American Medical Directors AssociationParamedic home visits within 72 hours of discharge were feasible for frail older adults, found medication discrepancies and fall risks, and were associated with lower 30-day rehospitalization in this unblinded study.
• RNOther2024Characteristics Associated With Homebound Vaccination Against COVID-19.Journal of the American Medical Directors AssociationHomebound patients vaccinated through a home-based primary care program were more likely to have dementia, Medicaid, public housing, longer enrollment, and neighborhoods with lower computer and internet use and greater poverty than patients vaccinated elsewhere.
• RNQualitative2025Exploring the implementation of national health and social care standards in Ireland: A qualitative descriptive study.Journal of advanced nursingStaff often view standards as paperwork for inspections rather than tools for care, leading to resistance when workloads are high. Implementation succeeds when standards are broken into bite-sized materials and frontline staff are involved in defining them.
• RNSystematic Review2025Oral Health Care Among Women in Perimenopause or Menopause: An Integrative Review.Journal of midwifery & women's healthWomen in perimenopause or menopause often knew little about oral health risks, and most reported brushing once daily; providers rarely gave guidance, and only one guideline exists. Nurses and midwives may need to ask about dry mouth, gum changes, and refer to dental care.
• RNSystematic Review2025An Integrative Review Exploring Womens' Experiences of Retraumatization Within Perinatal Services.Journal of midwifery & women's healthWomen with trauma histories described perinatal care as retraumatizing when positions, intimate exams, poor communication, or loss of control reactivated past trauma. They suggested asking permission, explaining actions, offering choices, and screening for trauma.