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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• RNRCT2025Two-Year Follow-Up of a Communication Intervention on Medication Adherence and Health Literacy in Kidney Transplanted Recipients-A Randomised Controlled Study.Journal of renal careAt 2 years after kidney transplant, patients who received four nurse-led communication sessions reported better medication adherence than controls. They also reported better ability to navigate health services and less decline in social support.
• RNOther2025Microbial Colonization and Associated Factors in Indwelling Urinary Catheters: A Cross-Sectional Study.Research in nursing & healthAll 61 catheters sampled after at least 2 days grew bacteria, mostly Pseudomonas aeruginosa, and 47.89% of isolates were multidrug-resistant. No patient factor or catheter duration showed a clear link to the organisms found.
• RNSystematic Review2025Systematic Search and Evaluation of mobile Apps for Wound Care Available in French-Language in Canada.The Canadian journal of nursing research = Revue canadienne de recherche en sciences infirmieresOnly five French-language wound-care apps were available to Canadian providers, all from France. Their quality was acceptable to good, but no single app covers assessment, prevention, and care planning.
• PTRNSystematic Review2025Alternative Models of Cardiac Rehabilitation to Promote Secondary Prevention in Patients With Coronary Heart Disease After Percutaneous Coronary Intervention: A Scoping Review.The Journal of cardiovascular nursingHome-based cardiac rehab after PCI used phone calls, websites, apps, devices, and education. Across 23 studies, patients often engaged and reported satisfaction, but the review did not compare models or show which works.
• OTRNQualitative2025Vulnerability situations of adolescents and young people from rural areas undergoing cancer treatment.Revista da Escola de Enfermagem da U S PRural adolescents and young people with cancer described shock and confusion at diagnosis, lost friendships, stopped school, work and leisure, and found travel for treatment exhausting. Distance to care could make them want to stop treatment.
• RNOther2025Shared Decision-Making in Severe Aortic Stenosis: Experiences and Needs of Older Patients.The Journal of cardiovascular nursingMost older patients wanted collaborative decisions, but only 29.6% reported the highest level of shared decision-making. Nurses can ask about daily life and include caregivers before discussing treatment options.
• PTOTRNOther2025Becoming Bedridden and Being Bedridden: Implications for Nursing and Care for Older People in Long-Term Care: A Scoping Review.International journal of older people nursingBedriddenness in older people in long-term care is a gradual loss of mobility, often starting with fear of falls. The review mapped care and prevention themes but found weak definitions and little work on residents' psychosocial needs.
• PTRNQualitative2025Barriers and Facilitators to Physical Activity in People With Young-Onset (Aged 18-40 Years) Type 2 Diabetes: A Qualitative Study.Journal of clinical nursingYoung adults with diabetes said a lack of time, cost, stigma, poor facilities, low skills and difficult emotions blocked activity. They also said family, peers, reminders, trackers and group exercise helped. Tailored, affordable, social plans may fit their lives.
• RNCohort2025Critical Events in Patients With Alternating Hemiplegia of Childhood: A Cohort Study Subgroup Analysis.AANA journalFour critical events occurred in 14 patients with alternating hemiplegia of childhood, all in those with ATP1A3 variants, including PACU bradycardia and cardiac arrest. No type of general anesthesia was linked to events.
• RNQualitative2025Partial language concordance in primary care communication: What is lost, what is gained, and how to optimize.Patient education and counselingIn 19 primary care visits with Chinese-speaking patients, partial language skills built rapport but could also cause misunderstandings; interpreter standby was described, but not tested.
• RNOther2025A High Fall Risk Patient Perspective-Reducing Safety Challenges in an Acute Care Hospital.Nursing openSeven inpatients who fell described not receiving fall brochures, misunderstanding alert signs and low-low beds, waiting on call bells, bathroom supervision gaps, and nurse-patient communication breakdown.
• RNQualitative2025Experiences With Cancer Screenings Among Arabic-Speaking Refugee Women.Nursing for women's healthArabic-speaking refugee women said clear provider explanations made them more willing to accept cancer screening. Fatalistic cancer language, confusion about how often screening was needed, worry about invasive tests, and interpreter problems made some women hesitant.
• RNRCT2025Effectiveness of e-share intervention for caregivers of elderly people after stroke: a pragmatic randomized trial.Revista latino-americana de enfermagemThe nurse-led caregiver programme did not improve overall caregiving ability or burden compared with usual care. Both groups improved. The intervention group reported better help with administering medications.
• RNSurvey2025Self-Advocacy Among Women With Uterine Malignancies.Nursing researchWomen with uterine cancer had a mean self-advocacy score of 59.44 ± 10.14 on an 18-item scale scored 0 to 5 per item. Higher decision confidence and resilience were linked to stronger self-advocacy.
• RNQualitative2025Patients' Experiences With Advance Care Planning and Decision-Making: An Interview Study in Finnish Hospital Palliative Care Wards.Nursing openPalliative patients wanted discussions about care goals, clear symptom plans, and safe discharge with home support, equipment, and a known contact channel. They described gaps in nursing documentation and follow-up that made care feel uncertain.
• RNOther2025Application of Artificial Intelligence Software to Identify Emotions of Lung Cancer Patients in Preoperative Health Education: A Cross-Sectional Study.Journal of nursing scholarship : an official publication of Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of NursingLung cancer patients recorded during nurse-led preoperative education were mostly neutral, then sad. Explanatory tone and educator negative words were linked to lower emotional arousal, but the study cannot show that changing wording causes this.
• RNSurvey2025Health Literacy and Self-Efficacy in Parents of Toddlers-A Cross-Sectional Study.Nursing openParents of toddlers in this Norwegian survey reported high health literacy and self-efficacy. Higher self-efficacy correlated with better health literacy across all nine domains, with the strongest link seen in understanding health information well enough to know what to do.
• RNOther2025Nursing Interventions for the Management of a Stoma Complicated by a Parastomal Hernia or Bulge: A Scoping Review.Journal of clinical nursingEight nursing interventions are described for parastomal bulges, including appliance changes and support garments. No study tested symptom reduction, so these are expert recommendations, not proven treatments.
• RNQualitative2025American Indian Adolescent Perspectives on COVID-19 Impacts Within Great Plains Area Reservations.Journal of transcultural nursing : official journal of the Transcultural Nursing SocietyAmerican Indian/Alaska Native adolescents on Great Plains reservations described pandemic isolation, disrupted school and social ties, and mixed physical activity, but also used family connections and online gaming to cope. These are self-reported experiences, not evidence of a treatment effect.
• RNCohort2025Greater Symptom Burden and Poorer Quality of Life Outcomes Are Associated With The Co-Occurrence of Anxiety and Depression During Cancer Chemotherapy.Seminars in oncology nursingAmong chemotherapy patients, higher co-occurring anxiety and depression was linked to increasingly worse fatigue, sleep, pain, thinking, and quality of life.
• RNSurvey2025The Acceptability of Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy Amongst Mental Health Consumers: Utilising the Theory of Planned Behaviour.International journal of mental health nursingAustralian mental health consumers were generally open to psychedelic-assisted therapy: 75% of participants wanted it and 55% preferred it over talking therapy, but many also felt concerned, fearful or worried about it.
• RNOther2025Contribution of the Brief Family Strength-Oriented Therapeutic Conversation Intervention to Early Childhood Sleep Health: A Quasi-Experimental Study.Journal of family nursing57 caregivers of infants with sleep problems reported better sleep beliefs, family support, and quality of life after a nurse-led family conversation intervention. Night-time sleep habits and longest night sleep also improved, but there was no control group.
• RNSurvey2025Perceived Learning Needs of Hospitalised Cancer Patients and Nurses.Nursing openHospitalised cancer patients and nurses agreed that complications and symptoms were the top learning need. Nurses, however, thought patients needed more information about medication, daily activities and disease than the patients themselves reported.
• RNSurvey2025Explaining the Association Between Number of Teeth and Frailty in Older Chinese Adults: The Chain Mediating Effect of Nutritional Status and Cognitive Function.International journal of nursing practiceHaving fewer natural teeth was linked to greater frailty, poorer nutrition and lower cognition in older adults. Nurses assessing frailty risk may ask about teeth and screen nutrition and cognition, but this does not prove tooth loss causes frailty.
• PTRNSystematic Review2025Effectiveness of Physical Activity Interventions on Acute Inpatient Mental Health Units on Health Outcomes: A Systematic Review.International journal of mental health nursingCompared with control groups, physical activity programmes in acute mental health wards improved mood, reduced anxiety, increased fitness or improved patient experience in some studies; others found no difference. Evidence is too mixed to choose a programme.
• RNOther2025Cross-Cultural Adaptation of the Clinical Frailty Scale for Critically Ill Patients in Spain and Concurrent Validity With FRAIL-Es.Nursing openICU nurses and physicians can use a Spanish Clinical Frailty Scale at admission, taking about 3 minutes, but its frailty ratings did not fully agree with FRAIL-Es.
• RNQualitative2025Primary Health Care in context with the plurality in the care of people with tuberculosis.Revista latino-americana de enfermagemPatients described TB care as a long treatment shaped by money problems, family strain and medication lapses, while PHC workers said closer, personal care mattered more than rigid program control.
• RNMeta-Analysis2025Correlated factors of posttraumatic growth in patients with colorectal cancer: A systematic review and meta-analysis.International journal of nursing sciencesPosttraumatic growth in colorectal cancer survivors was linked to psychosocial factors: social support, resilience and confrontation coping went with higher growth; stigma and avoidance coping went with lower growth. Sex, age, anxiety and depression were not linked.
• PTOTRNSurvey2025Fear of Falling Avoidance Behavior on Daily Living Activities and Physical Activity in Older Adults: A Cross-Sectional Study.Nursing & health sciencesIn 506 older adults, higher fear-of-falling avoidance was linked with lower independence in basic daily activities and lower physical activity. This was an association, not proof that avoidance causes decline.
• RNQualitative2025Patients' and family members' dyadic experience of post-operative delirium in the intensive care unit: A qualitative study.Nursing in critical carePatients and families described ICU post-operative delirium as a shared distress. They valued family presence, timely honest nurse communication, and early support for new caregiving roles.
• PTOTRNOther2025Implementing an Activity and Mobility Promotion Approach to Improve Patient Mobility.The American journal of nursingHospital-wide mobility documentation and daily goals were feasible on 15 adult units, and observed mobility improved: more patients sat, stood, or walked, and fewer stayed in bed. This is a quality-improvement report, not proof the program caused the change.
• RNSurvey2025Patients' Perception of Missed Nursing Care in a Tertiary Hospital: A Cross-Sectional Study.Nursing openHospitalised patients at a Western Australian tertiary hospital reported missed nursing care most often for mouth care, then walking and getting out of bed. Older patients were more likely to report missed care.
• RNCohort2025Mobility Loss in Hospitalized Adults Predicts Poor Clinical Outcomes.Journal of nursing care qualityHospitalized adults whose nurse-assessed mobility dropped by at least one level from admission to discharge were at higher risk of delirium, death, falls, facility discharge and longer stay, but not readmission.
• RNOther2025Communication Interventions for Families with Parental Cancer With Dependents: Findings from a Scoping Review.Worldviews on evidence-based nursingFor nurses, existing family communication interventions for parents with cancer often target the parent or child separately, occur at diagnosis or end of life, and rarely test coparent or family communication outcomes.
• RNCohort2025Natriuretic peptide testing in veterans hospitalized with heart failure: Potential differences by sex.Heart & lung : the journal of critical careWomen veterans hospitalized with heart failure were less likely than men to have a natriuretic peptide test on admission, even after accounting for clinical and facility factors.
• RNSurvey2025Sexual satisfaction and associated factors among patients with inflammatory bowel disease in Japan.Japan journal of nursing science : JJNSJapanese IBD patients gave "somewhat" as the most common sexual satisfaction answer. Older age, sleep deprivation, lower emotional well-being and fatigue were associated with lower satisfaction, while disease activity was not. A third declined to answer.
• RNSystematic Review2025Examining the Role of AI in Changing the Role of Nurses in Patient Care: Systematic Review.JMIR nursingMost AI tools for nursing are still early tests; only a few are deployed. Where used, they support monitoring, triage, wound care and pain assessment.
• PTRNOther2025Influence of frailty and cognitive decline on dual task performance in older adults: an analytical cross-sectional study.Revista latino-americana de enfermagemFrailty was associated with slower gait and dual-task walking in 219 older adults; cognitive decline was not related to these walking times.
• RNRCT2025Randomized Trial of Group Postpartum Care Model Improves Knowledge and Clinical Outcomes.Nursing researchPostpartum women in midwife-led groups with frequent visits, extended follow-up, standardized education, assessments and peer support identified more warning signs and felt more confident than usual care. The package's parts cannot be separated.
• RNOther2025Supportive Interventions Involving Family Carers of Patients With Delirium Superimposed on Dementia in Hospital: A Scoping Review.International journal of older people nursingSupportive family involvement in hospital was feasible and sometimes improved carer satisfaction, but evidence that it improved patient delirium outcomes was limited.
• RNSystematic Review2025Risk prediction models for post-intensive care syndrome of ICU discharged patients: A systematic review.International journal of nursing sciencesSixteen prediction models for post-ICU syndrome could tell which ICU survivors might develop problems, but most were biased and overfitted, so they should be used with caution.
• RNOther2025The effect of hygienic care practices given to stroke patients on vital signs of patients: A self-comparison pre-experimental study.Nursing in critical careIn mechanically ventilated stroke patients, full bed baths and heated wiping baths raised heart rate and blood pressure soon after bathing, then lowered body temperature. A later wiping bath raised blood oxygen pressure and changed blood pH.
• RNSurvey2025Identification of subgroups of self-reported outcomes among breast cancer patients undergoing surgery and chemotherapy: A cross-sectional study.International journal of nursing sciencesAmong 640 breast cancer patients having surgery and chemotherapy, 48.4% fell into impaired-function subgroups, including a group with low physical, social, and cognitive function and a group with high physical but low cognitive function.
• RNCohort2025A descriptive investigation of alarm activation in a critical care setting.Nursing in critical careMonitoring alarms generated many auditory alerts across cardiac and intensive care units, with clinical alarms making up most counted alerts. The ICU had fewer alerts than cardiac units, possibly reflecting settings, deactivations and staffing.
• RNSystematic Review2025Childbirth experience assessment tools based on COSMIN guidelines: A systematic review.International journal of nursing sciencesNo childbirth experience tool met the highest evidence standard. The QACE is recommended first for identifying women with negative experiences, but it lacks data on cross-cultural validity and stability, so scores may not be reliable across different settings or over time.
• RNQualitative2025Difficulties in providing nursing care to children with neurodevelopmental disorders admitted to child and adolescent psychiatric units for aggressive behavior.Japan journal of nursing science : JJNSNurses in child psychiatric wards struggle to manage aggression in children with neurodevelopmental disorders due to distrust, inconsistent staff responses, and lack of training. They rely on trial and error because evidence-based protocols for de-escalation and reflection are missing.
• RNQualitative2025Family Involvement in Relation to Elective Open-Heart Surgery: A Critical Incident Technique Study From a Family Member Perspective.Scandinavian journal of caring sciencesFamily members described feeling seen when welcomed and given direct updates, especially a post-surgery call from the surgeon. They described managing worry by gathering information, protecting the patient, and sharing care at home.
• RNRCT2025Effect of empowerment-based interventions on self-efficacy and self-care capacity among patients with sickle cell disease: A randomized controlled trial.International journal of nursing sciencesIn adults with sickle cell disease, nurse-led group education, individual consultations, and follow-up raised self-efficacy and self-care capacity scores after one month versus routine clinic education.
• RNOther2025Cross-cultural adaptation and psychometric evaluation of the Thai version of the Enhancing Recovery in Coronary Heart Disease Social Support Inventory in individuals with chronic illnesses.International journal of nursing sciencesA 6-item Thai social support questionnaire produced one consistent score in adults with chronic illness. The living-with-family item did not fit; use the 6 items to identify support needs.
• RNSurvey2025Advance care planning readiness among older adults in aged service centers: A cross-sectional study.International journal of nursing sciencesMost older adults in Macau's day centers were willing to engage in advance care planning, despite low awareness. Higher family function, prior ACP experience, and knowing someone who had resuscitation were linked to greater readiness.