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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• RNOther2025Development and evaluation of a rapid skin taurine measurement device using skin blotting for the early detection of dehydration.Japan journal of nursing science : JJNSA new skin blotting method detects dehydration markers in under 10 minutes, faster than the current one-hour lab test. However, reliability was poor when tested on young, healthy adults, and it has not yet been validated in older or dehydrated patients.
• RNQualitative2025Meanings of hope constructed by users of mental health services during the COVID-19 pandemic.Revista da Escola de Enfermagem da U S PUsers of specialized mental health services described hope as faith, solidarity, recovery from illness, and personal resilience. Some said the pandemic worsened substance use or depression, and some said they had no goals.
• RNSystematic Review2025Experiences of Family Caregivers of Children Aged 1-23 Months Who Have Received Pediatric Palliative Care: A Systematic Review With Qualitative Metasynthesis.Journal of nursing scholarship : an official publication of Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of NursingParents of infants in pediatric palliative care valued control, home care, and family routines. They reported gaps in staff training, communication, and discharge instructions, while appreciating supportive nurses.
• RNSystematic Review2025Prodromal Symptoms of Acute Myocardial Infarction in Women: A Systematic Review of Current Evidence.Nursing openWomen later diagnosed with acute coronary syndrome often reported prodromal fatigue, anxiety, sleep disturbance, chest discomfort and other symptoms before the event. Nurses can ask about these when triaging or assessing women with nonspecific symptoms.
• RNCohort2025Study on the Current Situation and Influencing Factors of Family Resilience of Patients With Recurrent Cancer and Their Caregivers.Nursing openIn 204 pairs of patients with recurrent cancer and caregivers, higher social support and hope were linked to higher family resilience; burden was linked to lower resilience. Patient family resilience showed no reported link with quality of life.
• RNSystematic Review2025Quality of outpatient nursing care: a scoping review.Revista latino-americana de enfermagemOutpatient nursing care quality has been measured through 17 indicators, mostly process measures such as communication, care coordination, health education, documentation, and patient satisfaction. The review maps what was measured, not that any indicator improves care.
• RNOther2025Outcome measures reported by cancer patients treated with tyrosine kinase inhibitors: a methodological study.Revista brasileira de enfermagemA shortened patient symptom checklist for oral cancer drugs called tyrosine kinase inhibitors was understood by the 18 patients who tried it and included symptoms experts judged relevant.
• PTRNSystematic Review2025Emergency Department Navigator Interventions and Outcome Measures: A Scoping Review.International journal of older people nursingScoping review of 10 studies found no consistent definition or outcome measures for ED navigator interventions for older people. Results on admissions and length of stay were mixed, with no clear evidence of effectiveness.
• PTRNRCT2025Combined Effect of 12 Weeks Baduanjin and Tri-Ball Respiratory Training as a Home-Based Pulmonary Rehabilitation in Subjects With Moderate Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: A Multi-Center Randomized Controlled Trial.Rehabilitation nursing : the official journal of the Association of Rehabilitation NursesWith continued inhaled budesonide/formoterol, 12-week home Baduanjin, Tri-Ball Breath training, or both increased 6-minute walk distance versus routine care. The paper does not show which component drives the combined result.
• SLPRNSurvey2025The Roles of Parental Psychological Flexibility, Mindfulness, and Self-Compassion in Affecting Mental Health and Self-Efficacy in Parents of Children With or Without Hearing Loss: An Analysis of the Parallel Mediation Model.Nursing openParents of children with and without congenital hearing loss reported that higher stress, depression, and anxiety were linked to lower parenting self-efficacy, and that lower psychological flexibility, mindful awareness, and self-compassion were also linked to lower self-efficacy. It did not test an intervention.
• RNQualitative2025Communication difficulties in mechanically ventilated voiceless patients in intensive care units: A qualitative study.Nursing in critical careIn intensive care, conscious patients who cannot speak because of tubes often could not be understood. Participants linked this to distress, isolation, care that missed needs, and medications or restraints for agitation.
• RNOther2025Evaluation of Shear Force Redistribution and Microclimate in Foam Dressings Indicated for Pressure Injury Prevention.Advances in skin & wound carePressure-injury dressings behaved differently on laboratory shear and moisture tests. Dressing A transmitted less force than the control in low shear and showed no inside-outside humidity difference. Dressing E retained the most moisture. No patient outcomes were tested.
• RNCase Report2025Massive Malignant Transformation in a Patient with Hidradenitis Suppurativa during Anti-Tumor Necrosis Factor Treatment.Advances in skin & wound careOne 53-year-old man with hidradenitis suppurativa taking adalimumab developed squamous cell carcinoma. Adalimumab was stopped, antibiotics were given for resistant bacteria, radiation and wide excision with grafts were used, and no recurrence was seen at 4 months.
• RNSystematic Review2025Clinical Assessment of Fluid Status in Adults With Acute Kidney Injury: A Scoping Review.Journal of renal careNurses assessing fluid status in acute kidney injury should not rely on National Early Warning Scores, which failed to predict deterioration. Instead, monitor hourly urine output, track daily weight changes of 1% or more, and check for sternal capillary refill over 4.5 seconds alongside signs of dehydration.
• RNOther2025Pressure Distribution Properties in Wound Dressings Using Heel and Sacrum Indenters Under Clinically Relevant Loads.Advances in skin & wound careAll five wound dressings lowered peak and average pressure on heel and sacrum models compared with no dressing. Dressing D had largest sacral contact area and lowest sacral pressures; Dressing B and D had lowest heel average pressure. No patient outcomes are reported.
• RNSurvey2025Attitudes of the Population Toward Vaccines During the COVID-19 Pandemic: The PROACTIVE Study.Public health nursing (Boston, Mass.)Among 411 Italian adults, people who worried more about catching COVID-19 also used more preventive measures. Older age, female sex, and chronic disease were associated with higher risk perception and preventive behaviour.
• RNRCT2025Challenges and Strategies: Nationwide Data Collection for an Internet-based Guided Relaxation Intervention in Sickle Cell Disease.Pain management nursing : official journal of the American Society of Pain Management NursesIn 122 adults with sickle cell disease in a guided relaxation trial, 7 withdrew and 65 reported 126 challenge occurrences, grouped into personal, environmental, and clinical factors.
• RNSurvey2025Factors associated with the self-esteem of pregnant women at normal risk.Revista brasileira de enfermagemAmong 150 normal-risk pregnant women, lower self-esteem was associated with being up to 19, unmarried, not living with a partner, no paid employment, and unplanned pregnancy.
• RNRCT2025Immediate and long-term effects of transcranial direct current stimulation on pain relief in older adults with Alzheimer's disease and related dementias: A pilot study.Geriatric nursing (New York, N.Y.)Older adults with dementia and chronic pain who used home tDCS and started in high pain had a 47.1% chance of moving to low pain after five days; sham had none. At one month, sham also had some transitions, and probabilities were not tested.
• RNOther2025Integrating Nursing-Teleophthalmology Improves Diabetic Retinopathy Screening in Primary Healthcare, Reducing Unnecessary Referrals to Specialist Healthcare.International journal of nursing practiceNurses captured retinal images, and remote reading allowed analysis in 584 of 779 people with type 2 diabetes; 345 were referred and 56% stayed in primary care.
• RNSystematic Review2025Effectiveness of Suicide Prevention Programmes Among Adolescents and Sociocultural Adaptation of Programmes: A Systematic Review.International journal of mental health nursingSchool-based suicide prevention programmes often improved adolescents' knowledge about suicide, help-seeking and some suicide-related outcomes, but effects were inconsistent, few reported cultural adaptation and no adverse effects were reported.
• SLPRNQualitative2025Pain Assessment and Management in Dementia Care: Qualitative Perspectives of People With Dementia, Their Families, and Healthcare Professionals.Journal of clinical nursingPain in dementia was hard to recognise because communication is unreliable. Participants relied on familiar carers, non-verbal cues and personalised assessment, not tools alone. Comfort measures were tried first, and training gaps were common.
• RNCohort2025Development and validation of a prediction model for in-hospital mortality in patients with sepsis.Nursing in critical careIn 2389 ICU sepsis patients, a model predicted in-hospital mortality using infection source, malignancy, Gram-negative and Gram-positive bacteria, ventilation days, vasopressors, SOFA and APACHE II scores. It was checked only in split hospital data, not in care.
• RNOther2025Extending the interval for changing flushing solutions for central venous and arterial line systems in the intensive care unit: An evidence-based quality improvement project.Nursing in critical careNo line-associated bloodstream infections were recorded in a one-year ICU quality improvement project that changed saline flush bags for central venous and arterial lines from every 24 hours to every 96 hours, and the project reported per-patient fluid bag savings.
• RNOther2025The Role of Siblings in Caring for Middle-Aged and Older People With Severe Mental Illness: A Scoping Review.International journal of mental health nursingMost siblings of middle-aged or older people with severe mental illness are willing to give emotional, social, or financial support, but they resist regular daily care. They need psychoeducation, counselling, and help coordinating with services.
• RNCohort2025Resilience and Counseling Received by Colorectal Cancer Patients During a 1-Year Follow-Up: PHASE II of a Longitudinal Study.Gastroenterology nursing : the official journal of the Society of Gastroenterology Nurses and AssociatesOne year after colorectal cancer surgery, resilience showed no positive change and ratings of counseling benefits decreased, although overall counseling was rated mostly good.
• RNOther2025Guidelines for Primary Pediatric Care Professionals to Help Patients Establish and Protect Milk Supply.MCN. The American journal of maternal child nursingPrimary care nurses should assess 8-12 feeds or expressions in 24 hours, cue-based feeding, safe skin-to-skin, detailed feeding history, and delayed milk-production risk factors at newborn visits.
• RNSurvey2025Sleep and Trauma Effects of the Earthquake: A Cross-Sectional Study.Nursing openEarthquake survivors reported poor sleep and significant trauma effects. Trauma exposure and sleep were linked only very weakly, so trauma alone did not account for most sleep problems.
• RNQualitative2025Themes of Personal Becoming: An Exploration of Cancer Caregiver Narratives.Cancer nursingCaregivers of adults with advanced cancer described finding meaning through nature, art, spirituality, relationships, and past caregiving. Nurses can ask about these practices, but they are not shown to reduce burden.
• OTRNSystematic Review2025Carers' Understanding of Recovery-Oriented Practice in Mental Health Settings: A Systematic Review and Narrative Synthesis.International journal of mental health nursingCarers understood recovery-oriented mental health care but said services often prioritised symptoms and medication, excluded them from discharge planning and information, and left them feeling unable to support recovery.
• RNSurvey2025The integrative health status of women with uterine fibroids wishing to maintain fertility: a cross-sectional study based on Levine's conservation model.Women's health nursing (Seoul, Korea)Most women with fibroids wanting fertility reported high fatigue and sexual dysfunction. Higher fatigue went with worse sexual function, more anxiety and more loneliness; symptom severity did not track anxiety or loneliness.
• RNOther2025Maternal identity measurement based on the experiences of mothers with infants: a methodological study.Women's health nursing (Seoul, Korea)A 17-item questionnaire for Korean mothers of infants measures maternal identity across warmth, effort, indifference and preparation. It was tested in 300 mothers but has not been tested for clinical care.
• RNQualitative2025Perceptions and Intentions to Prevent Diabetes Among At-Risk Individuals: A Qualitative Study Using the Theory of Planned Behaviour.Journal of clinical nursingAt-risk Singapore adults wanted specific, actionable diabetes prevention advice, not just sugar warnings. Younger adults felt less vulnerable and wanted quick results; older adults were more proactive about prevention.
• RNPilot2025A Feasibility Study Assessing a Novel Ambulatory Monitoring System in General Ward Areas: Pilot Study.Nursing openPatients and ward staff rated a wearable continuous monitor acceptable: 92% of clinicians said it was good or very good to use, and 76% of patients felt safer wearing it. This is feasibility, not proof of earlier deterioration detection.
• RNQualitative2025"Taking Charge and Being Responsible": A Qualitative Study of Meaning Making and Motivations for Preexposure Prophylaxis Adherence Among Gay, Bisexual, and Other Sexual Minoritized Men Engaged in Alcohol Misuse in Kentucky.The Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care : JANACMen taking PrEP while using alcohol described it as self-care, pride, routine, and peace of mind. Alcohol mostly did not change dosing, but PrEP safety plus heavy drinking sometimes increased condomless sex.
• RNRCT2025A Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial of a Multimodal Wellness Intervention for Perinatal Mental Health.Journal of midwifery & women's healthA four-session Zoom wellness program with motivational interviewing was feasible and acceptable for pregnant people, and participants showed more health-promoting behaviors and lower anxiety than those receiving prenatal education at some timepoints, but this pilot was not powered to prove benefit.
• RNOther2025Healing Rate and Time to Closure of Venous Leg Ulcers: A Real-World Service Evaluation of Neuromuscular Electrostimulation as an Adjunct to Compression Therapy.Advances in skin & wound careAdding electrical stimulation of the common peroneal nerve to compression was associated with faster wound closure in 15 patients with venous leg ulcers: 0.56 mm/week versus 0.31 mm/week, and 40 versus 77 days to heal.
• RNSurvey2025Impact of Depression on Activation and Summer Heat Adaptation in Older Adults With Cardiovascular Concerns: Empirical Research Quantitative.Nursing openSummer heat adaptation did not explain the link between depression and activation in rural older adults with cardiovascular risk. Higher depression was linked to lower activation, and better heat adaptation was linked to higher activation.
• RNSurvey2025The mediating effect of health-promoting behaviors on the relationship between infertility stress and fertility-related quality of life of infertile women: a cross-sectional study.Women's health nursing (Seoul, Korea)Higher infertility stress was linked with lower fertility-related quality of life, while healthier daily habits were linked with better quality of life. The study measured these links together, so it does not prove that changing habits improves quality of life.
• PTRNQualitative2025Navigating Loss and Growth in Chronic Illness: An Interview Study on Physical Activity and Well-Being.Scandinavian journal of caring sciencesPeople living with chronic illness described walking, gardening, sport and nature as relief, control and connection, not just exercise. They also described illness as changing their body, familiar life and future.
• RNSystematic Review2025Factors That Influence Digital Health Implementation in Rural, Regional, and Remote Australia: An Overview of Reviews and Recommended Strategies.The Australian journal of rural healthRural Australian telehealth implementation faced many barriers, including poor connectivity, workflow mismatch, staff turnover and unclear policy. Reviews also found enablers such as local champions, patient and family engagement, and culturally sensitive services.
• RNCohort2025Nutrition risk stratification and metabolic disorders in patients on parenteral nutrition.Revista da Escola de Enfermagem da U S PDeath, glucose, potassium and phosphorus disorders did not differ between moderate and severe nutritional risk groups. The severe group had more magnesium disorders, and sodium disorders were higher only after considering BMI, access and stay.
• RNSurvey2025The mediating effects of convergence of femininity-maternity and marital intimacy in the relationship between postpartum depression and quality of life in postpartum mothers: a cross-sectional study.Women's health nursing (Seoul, Korea)In postpartum mothers, higher depression scores were associated with lower quality of life. Maintaining a feminine identity while adapting to motherhood partly accounted for this association. Marital intimacy was linked to quality of life but did not add to that explanation.
• RNSurvey2025The relationship between cognitive characteristics of irrational parenthood and stigma in female patients with infertility: a potential profile analysis.Revista da Escola de Enfermagem da U S PInfertile women fell into four belief groups. Women who saw childlessness as a lifelong torment or reason for inferiority reported more stigma, self-blame and family humiliation than women with lower beliefs.
• RNRCT2025The Effect of Newborn Massage Training on Maternal Attachment and Postpartum Depression: Randomized Controlled Trial.Nursing & health sciencesFirst-time mothers who received online newborn massage training during pregnancy reported stronger attachment and fewer depressive symptoms after birth than controls. It was self-reported, short-term, and unblinded, so treat it as a supportive practice, not depression treatment.
• RNSystematic Review2025Systematic Review of Effects of Medication Dispenser Use by Home-Dwelling Older Adults.Nursing researchFor home-dwelling older adults, medication dispensers showed moderate evidence of beneficial effects on blood pressure and HbA1C levels. Evidence was limited or absent for quality of life, patient satisfaction, service use, and costs.
• RNQualitative2025Weight management experiences and needs in obese polycystic ovary syndrome patients of childbearing age in China: a qualitative study.Revista da Escola de Enfermagem da U S PWomen with PCOS and obesity described diet, medication and lifestyle changes, but most found exercise hard to maintain. They wanted plain education, help from clinicians and family support, not just weight-loss advice.
• RNCohort2025Impact of prognostic scores on acute kidney injury assessment in the postoperative period of myocardial revascularization.Revista da Escola de Enfermagem da U S PAfter bypass heart surgery, ICU patients with acute kidney injury had higher SAPS 3 and SOFA scores than those without injury. The scores tracked severity, but this small single-center cohort does not show they should change care.
• RNOther2025Effectiveness of passive ankle pump exercise on lower limb swelling in neonates with a peripherally inserted central catheter: a quasi-experimental study.Revista da Escola de Enfermagem da U S PIn neonates with lower limb PICCs, adding nurse-led passive ankle pump exercise to limb elevation and warm compresses reduced leg swelling and shortened time to resolution from 80 hours to 56 hours.
• RNSurvey2025Physical Problems, Fatigue, and Healthy Lifestyle Behaviors Experienced by Women in the First 48 Hours of Postpartum Period.Nursing & health sciencesPostpartum women in the first two days reported fatigue and pain, especially after C-section, with breastfeeding challenges, lack of full areola compression, and when the accompanist was the partner.