NURSING

Research for nursing

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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• RNPilot2025Development of and Testing Novel Questionnaires Assessing Palliative Care-Related Knowledge, Attitudes, and Confidence Among Home Healthcare Clinicians, Patients, and Caregivers.Home healthcare nowHome healthcare clinicians and patients/caregivers often lacked accurate pain and opioid knowledge, while attitudes toward palliative care were positive. The new questionnaires can measure this, but they do not prove training improves care.
• RNOther2025Key Aspects of Recovery-Oriented Practice in Caring for People With Mental Ill-Health in General Emergency Departments: A Modified Delphi Study.Journal of clinical nursingNurses, researchers and people with lived experience considered 39 ED nursing care behaviours very important for patients with mental ill-health, including active listening, respect, assessing physical symptoms, conveying hope and challenging stigma.
• RNNarrative Review2025Nutrition in Advanced Disease and End of Life Cancer Care.Seminars in oncology nursingFor patients with advanced cancer, nutrition goals may still support long-term treatment, but near end of life they shift to comfort. Nurses need to discuss artificial nutrition risks, family expectations, and goals repeatedly.
• OTSLPRNSystematic Review2025Oral Health Care: A Systematic Review of Clinical Practice Guidelines.Nursing & health sciencesNine oral-care guidelines support twice-daily fluoride toothpaste, spitting without rinsing after brushing, risk-based dental checks, and assisted mouth care. They do not test patient outcomes, so treat them as practice recommendations.
• RNRCT2025Patient activation improves with a multi-component personalized mHealth intervention in older patients at risk of cardiovascular disease: a pilot randomized controlled trial.European journal of cardiovascular nursingNo significant between-group difference in patient activation at 3 or 6 months. Both groups had app, tracker, coaching; the group also receiving personalized texts improved within group by 3.53 and 4.37 points, but components cannot be separated.
• RNOther2025Haemoglobin for Fall Risk Screening in Gynaecological and Obstetric Wards: Retrospective Survey and Delphi Validation.Nursing openIn obstetrics and gynaecology inpatients, lower haemoglobin was associated with falls, and experts agreed haemoglobin below 110 g/L should trigger higher fall-risk attention. This is a screening idea, not tested care.
• RNQualitative2024Respectful care for postpartum women with sickle cell disease: a netnographic study.Revista brasileira de enfermagemTwo postpartum women with sickle cell disease described respectful care as warmth, clear explanations, and keeping mother and baby together. They reported disrespectful care as being dismissed when describing pain, delayed information about their condition, and separation from their newborn without explanation.
• RNOther2024Educational technology to empower patients as participants in their care.Revista brasileira de enfermagemA patient safety booklet was rated acceptable by 19 experts and 36 inpatients. It covers hand hygiene, skin injury prevention, medication, surgery and falls, but it was not tested for reducing harm.
• RNOther2024Interobserver agreement in Reception and Risk Stratification in Obstetrics implementation.Revista brasileira de enfermagemNurses and an obstetric resident disagreed on 230 of 891 pregnant women's triage levels. Nurses more often assigned a higher urgency than the review. Agreement was stronger for urgent cases.
• RNCohort2024Factors associated with maternal well-being during childbirth among postpartum women in Minas Gerais.Revista brasileira de enfermagemCesarean delivery and missing breastfeeding guidance were linked to higher distress during childbirth. While over half of postpartum women reported adequate or excellent well-being, those without guidance or who had cesareans fared worse. This suggests nurses should prioritize clear breastfeeding education and support vaginal birth where safe.
• RNOther2024Stroke nurse-led intravenous thrombolytic therapy strategy for ischemic stroke based on timeline process: A quality improvement program from China.International journal of nursing sciencesAfter a nurse-led stroke process with QR-code timing and ISBAR communication, median door-to-needle time fell from 46 to 30 minutes in a single-center quality improvement study.
• RNOther2024Sleep quality of patients with heart failure and associated factors.Revista brasileira de enfermagem73 of 88 patients with heart failure reported poor sleep, especially taking longer to fall asleep. Worse sleep was linked to lower income and more limiting symptoms, not ejection fraction, medication count, age or sex.
• RNOther2024Educational booklet on labor and delivery: validity study.Revista brasileira de enfermagemExperts and pregnant women rated this childbirth education booklet as clear and relevant. It covers labor stages, pain relief, and birth plans. Use it to support prenatal discussions, but know it has not been tested to improve birth outcomes.
• RNSurvey2025Investigating Falls Risk Awareness in Hospitals Using the Self-Awareness of Falls Risk Measure (SAFRM): Empirical Research Quantitative.Nursing openForty-two percent of hospital inpatients did not match their clinician's falls risk rating. Thirty percent underestimated their risk, and independent mobility and older age were linked to underestimation.
• RNOther2025Understanding Daily Care Experience Preferences Across the Lifespan of Older Adults: Application of Natural Language Processing.Western journal of nursing researchMusic and photographs were most often named as things that bring joy by older adults. Oldest-old adults named photographs more often than music.
• RNOther2025Enhancing primary healthcare in under-resourced communities with mobile health clinics.NursingHaiti mobile clinics screened over 4,900 individuals from 2015 to 2019, found hypertension, diabetes, infections, and other conditions, referred critical cases to hospitals, and taught water purification and warning signs. It is a service model, not proven outcomes.
• RNQualitative2024Narratives of sex workers: intimate partner violence and coping strategies.Revista brasileira de enfermagemSix sex workers described intimate partner violence, especially humiliation, verbal abuse and control, with physical violence and attempted femicide also present. They coped by keeping work and relationships separate, avoiding partners who knew their work, and relying on themselves rather than social support.
• RNQualitative2024Nursing team's perceptions about care for pregnant women in a psychiatric unit.Revista brasileira de enfermagemNurses working in psychiatric units describe their care for pregnant patients as routine and impersonal. They feel unprepared to address the specific emotional and physical needs of this group, relying on rigid protocols rather than individualized assessment.
• RNOther2024Characteristics of Patients Hospitalized With Methamphetamine-Associated Heart Failure: A Comparative Study of Enrolled vs Nonenrolled Patients.The Journal of cardiovascular nursingHospitalized patients with methamphetamine-associated heart failure were younger, more often male and urban, had more non-ischemic reduced ejection fraction, and had more emergency department visits.
• RNRCT2024Effectiveness of the modified Seldinger technique for peripheral central catheter in newborns: a randomized clinical trial.Revista brasileira de enfermagemIn newborns needing central venous access, modified Seldinger PICC insertion did not improve placement success, reduce immediate complications, or reduce bloodstream infection versus conventional insertion; pain, time, and attempts were also similar.
• RNOther2024Analysis of omission of antimicrobial doses in Intensive Care Units.Revista brasileira de enfermagemICU antimicrobial doses were omitted in 4.29% of 1,467 doses. Double checking was associated with 30% lower omission, but this observational study cannot prove it caused the reduction.
• RNQualitative2024Health literacy development of Primary Health Care patients: qualitative research.Revista brasileira de enfermagemPatients with chronic disease said they built health knowledge mainly through family, friends, social media, body sensations and trusted professionals. These relationships shaped self-care, while online information was useful for learning but less helpful for acting on care.
• RNNarrative Review2025Contributing Factors to the Rise in Adolescent Anxiety and Associated Mental Health Disorders: A Narrative Review of Current Literature.Journal of child and adolescent psychiatric nursing : official publication of the Association of Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Nurses, IncAdolescent anxiety is rising, and this review links it to biology, social media, family strain, school pressure, extracurricular load, and political or climate worry. Nurses can use these factors to ask targeted questions and counsel families.
• RNQualitative2025Family Caregivers' Experiences of Long-Term Care Residents Living With Dementia During the COVID-19 Pandemic: An International Grounded Theory Study.Journal of advanced nursingFamily caregivers of people with dementia in long-term care described lockdowns as painful exclusion. They fought to keep connection, distrusted inconsistent care, and found video calls inadequate without staff support.
• RNNarrative Review2025Proactive Management of Lactation in the Birth Hospital to Ensure Long-Term Milk Production and Sustainable Breastfeeding.Journal of midwifery & women's healthNew parents with lactation risk factors are advised to use early breastfeeding plans, skin-to-skin contact, hand expression, and frequent hospital-grade pumping to support milk supply. This is expert guidance, not tested treatment.
• RNOther2025Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease Risk Scores are Associated with Carotid Intima-Media Thickness.Clinical nursing researchASCVD risk scores rose with carotid artery thickness and plaque burden, but they did not separate people with and without coronary artery disease history. Three low scores missed high carotid findings.
• RNNarrative Review2025Transnational Healthcare Practices Among Migrants: A Concept Analysis.Journal of advanced nursingMigrants often seek care in their home countries due to cultural familiarity, language barriers, and distrust of host systems. This concept analysis identifies these drivers but offers no evidence on which interventions improve care or outcomes for clinicians.
• RNSurvey2025Factors Influencing the Demoralisation Syndrome of Post-Operative Patients With Breast Cancer: A Cross-Sectional Study.Nursing openAmong 237 post-operative breast cancer patients, 37.6% had moderate to severe demoralisation. Lower income, later cancer stage, recurrence, poorer relationship quality and worse body image were linked to higher demoralisation scores.
• RNCohort2025Methamphetamine-associated heart failure: Clinical characteristics and outcomes in a safety net population.Heart & lung : the journal of critical careIn patients with heart failure, methamphetamine use showed no significant difference in mortality, but higher heart failure and all-cause readmissions. Post-discharge follow-up was associated with lower mortality.
• RNOther2025Characteristics of Patients With Community-Acquired Pressure Injuries.Nursing openHospital records grouped 272 patients admitted with pressure injuries already present into three clusters: chronic disease with preserved daily function, low function needing discharge planning, and very high risk with dementia, malnutrition, persistent wounds, and more in-hospital deaths.
• RNSurvey2025Predicting the Health-Promoting Lifestyle Profile of Pregnant Women Based on Their Health Literacy Levels: A Cross-Sectional Study.Nursing openPregnant women with higher health literacy reported more health-promoting behaviours. Lower appraisal and physical activity scores suggest where nurses might focus prenatal education, but the study did not test whether this changes behaviour.
• RNQualitative2025Recovery From Heroin Addiction: A Qualitative Study.Public health nursing (Boston, Mass.)People in long-term heroin recovery described achieving a “new normal” through daily structure, honest support networks, and accepting their past. They viewed total abstinence, including avoiding opioid medications, as essential, contrasting with standard pharmacological care.
• PTOTRNMeta-Analysis2025Non-Pharmacological Interventions Targeting Sense of Coherence Among Older Adults and Adults With Chronic Conditions: A Meta-Analysis With Trial Sequential Analysis.Journal of advanced nursingNon-drug programmes improved older adults' and chronic disease patients' sense of coherence, their confidence that life is manageable, for up to 3 months. Salutogenic programmes had short-term benefit; self-management was less firm; exercise, cognitive behavioural therapy and nurse-led education did not show stable benefit.
• RNCohort2025Patterns of physical activity, sedentary behavior, and sleep across pregnancy before and during two COVID pandemic years.MidwiferyPregnant people in the pandemic were less active and more sedentary than before, and did not return to old patterns over two years. Ask about daily movement, sitting, and sleep, especially late pregnancy.
• RNRCT2024The Leaky Preexposure Prophylaxis Cascade-Barriers and Facilitators to Preexposure Prophylaxis Uptake and Adherence Among Youth Experiencing Homelessness in the US South: A Mixed Methods Study.The Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care : JANACAmong 44 youth experiencing homelessness who chose PrEP, only 22 got a prescription, and most urine tests showed nonadherence. Nurses need to address side-effect fears, stigma, housing, and navigation support early.
• RNQualitative2025Parents' Need for Support From Family and Friends During Their Preterm Infants' Hospitalisation: A Cross-National Qualitative Study.Journal of advanced nursingParents of preterm infants in NICUs needed social, emotional and practical support from family and friends. Their needs changed over time, and staff attitudes and visiting rules shaped whether that support arrived.
• RNPilot2025Examining the Feasibility and Acceptability of Identifying Signs of Social Anxiety, in University Students Aged 18-25, While Watching 360° Immersive Films.International journal of mental health nursingSeven healthy students watched immersive anxiety scenarios in VR headsets. Heart rate did not correlate with self-reported anxiety scores, but it rose significantly in the ten seconds after specific social events. Participants found the headsets comfortable but reported technical glitches and difficulty knowing where to look.
• RNCohort2025Hope among patients discharged from an intensive care unit: A prospective cohort study.Nursing in critical careHope stayed stable from 3 to 12 months after ICU discharge. Higher hope was linked to no prior mental health problems, fewer early post-traumatic stress symptoms and more social support. The nurse-led follow-up intervention did not improve hope at 3 months.
• RNQualitative2025Patient Experiences and Prerequisites of Collaboration as Partners in Person-Centred Care: An Interview Study.Nursing openPatients with long-term illness described good partnership as being seen, believed, and remembered; flexible dialogue, shared everyday goals, and care coordination that did not leave them carrying information between providers.
• RNSystematic Review2025Mental Health Services for Serious Mental Illness: Scoping Review of Randomised Controlled Trials.Nursing openMost randomised trials of mental health services for serious mental illness tested outpatient, e-health, ambulatory, residential, case management, discharge, education or assessment care. This map shows where evidence exists and where gaps remain, not which service works.
• RNCohort2025Tracking Survivors With Long COVID: Method, Implementation, and Results of an Observational Study.Research in nursing & healthMonths since diagnosis did not relate to symptom number, severity, or interference in adults at least 3 months after confirmed COVID-19. Women reported more symptoms, greater severity, and more daily interference than men.
• RNCohort2025Long-Stay Nursing Home Residents with Dementia: Telemedicine Mental Health Use during the COVID-19 Pandemic.Journal of the American Medical Directors AssociationTelemedicine mental health use was 7.1% among long-stay nursing home residents with dementia in 2021. Facility-level patterns stood out: homes with more Black residents used it less, and homes with more Hispanic residents used it more.
• RNOther2025Use of Machine Learning Models to Predict Microaspiration Measured by Tracheal Pepsin A.American journal of critical care : an official publication, American Association of Critical-Care NursesIn mechanically ventilated adults, models using heart rate, blood pressure, body mass index, tube duration and age identified the presence of tracheal pepsin A, a marker of microaspiration. The best model outperformed a simple comparison model, but needs external testing before use.
• RNRCT2025Effects of a self-efficacy-centered self-management program on neurogenic bladder after spinal cord injury: A randomized controlled trial.Japan journal of nursing science : JJNSA 12-week multi-component bladder program improved self-management, self-efficacy, vitality and mental health, reduced UTIs, lowered residual urine, and increased bladder capacity versus routine education and follow-up. The self-efficacy gain was small and seen only at 12 weeks.
• RNSurvey2025Examination of Elder Abuse and Death Anxiety in Older Adults With a Chronic Disease.Nursing openIn 200 older adults with chronic disease, 73% were at elder abuse risk and death anxiety was high (8.66 of 15). Higher abuse risk was linked to higher death anxiety, but the study cannot show abuse caused anxiety.
• RNOther2025Association of COMT rs4680 Genotype With Chronic Neuropathic Pain Experience in Patients With Sickle Cell Disease.Pain management nursing : official journal of the American Society of Pain Management NursesIn 184 adults with sickle cell disease, COMT rs4680 genotype showed no significant association with S-LANSS or NPSI neuropathic pain scores.
• RNSystematic Review2025Behavioral Determinants of Older Adults' and Caregivers' Willingness to Deprescribe: A Systematic Review.Public health nursing (Boston, Mass.)Patients and caregivers were more open to stopping medicines when they saw risk or side effects, felt medicines were no longer needed, and trusted their clinician. Self-efficacy was the most consistent link to change after deprescribing interventions.
• RNCohort2025Effects of Nursing Home Changes in Antipsychotic Use on Outcomes among Residents with Dementia.Journal of the American Medical Directors AssociationNursing home residents with dementia did not have lower mortality or hospitalization when facilities reduced antipsychotic use. They had slightly higher risks for some outcomes and increased use of other psychotropic medications.
• RNSurvey2024Are the effects of stress on antenatal depression mediated by self-esteem and moderated by social support?: a cross-sectional study.Women's health nursing (Seoul, Korea)Pregnant women with higher stress reported more antenatal depression. Lower self-esteem was associated with both stress and depression, and stronger social support was associated with a weaker stress and depression link.
• OTRNSurvey2024Factors affecting return to work in breast cancer survivors in Korea: a cross-sectional study.Women's health nursing (Seoul, Korea)Among Korean breast cancer survivors who had worked before diagnosis, being single, 2 to 5 years after diagnosis, less anxious preoccupation and better quality of working life were linked with returning to work.