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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• RNQualitative2025Shame and Experiences of Psychosis: A Qualitative Inquiry.International journal of mental health nursingPeople with psychosis described shame as exposing hidden vulnerabilities, causing shame after behaviours, and being triggered by locked doors, restraint, medical language, and unequal staff relationships. They described talking about experiences in their own words and having choices as ways to manage shame.
• RNOther2025Prevalence of adverse events in hip and knee arthroplasties following the implementation of surgical checklists.Revista latino-americana de enfermagemAdverse events in hip and knee arthroplasty patients fell from 63.9% before to 36.1% after two checklists and other perioperative changes at one hospital. Urinary retention and bleeding fell, but skin injuries rose and wound infections did not change.
• RNSurvey2025Factors Contributing to the Diabetes Burden in the Elderly: A Clinical Perspective.Scandinavian journal of caring sciencesOlder inpatients with diabetes reported burden across symptoms, social life, diet, worry, treatment dissatisfaction and medication. Those using both oral diabetes drugs and insulin, or having another chronic disease, reported higher burden.
• PTOTRNSystematic Review2025Symptom Experience After Surgical Treatment for Vulvar Cancer-A Scoping Review.Scandinavian journal of caring sciencesWomen after vulvar cancer surgery described lymphedema, pain, fatigue, urinary and sexual changes, and loneliness. Symptoms varied widely, and many said they lacked clear information after surgery. This maps symptoms, not treatment effects.
• RNSystematic Review2025Interventions to Support Psychological Health Outcomes for Children and Families Experiencing Paediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) Admission: A Scoping Review.Nursing in critical carePICU family support evidence is thin: 10 small studies, many were information or psychoeducation, some reported lower parent anxiety or stress; no intensive clinical interventions were identified.
• RNRCT2025Invitation to Self-Compassion: Reshaping Burden of Care in the Light of Self-Compassion Training Given to Relatives of Patients Hospitalised in Palliative Care.Scandinavian journal of caring sciencesRelatives of palliative patients who took a self-compassion programme combining mindfulness, psychoeducation, cognitive-behavioural techniques, presentations, meditations, and homework reported lower caregiver burden and higher self-compassion after training than relatives who had not yet received it. Outcomes were measured only at the end of the course.
• RNOther2025Evaluation of a Patient Safety Advisory Among Inpatients-A Mixed Methods Study.Scandinavian journal of caring sciencesAdverse events did not differ between inpatients who read the safety advisory and those who did not. Most liked it, 63% said it added no new information, 25% said they changed behaviour, and older people living alone were less likely to read it.
• RNOther2025Management of Mastitis in the Hospital Setting: An International Audit Study.Journal of human lactation : official journal of International Lactation Consultant AssociationHospital emergency care for mastitis varied widely: most women received antibiotics, breast abscesses were aspirated in Australia but often drained surgically elsewhere, and breastfeeding advice was frequently undocumented.
• RNCohort2025Association Between Breastfeeding and Neurodevelopment at 6 Years of Age in the French PELAGIE Birth Cohort.Journal of midwifery & women's healthLonger breastfeeding was associated with higher verbal comprehension and some attention, visuospatial, and memory scores in 286 six-year-olds after adjustment; working memory showed no association.
• RNCohort2025Lower Adherence to Breastfeeding Recommendations in Mothers Treated With Antirheumatic and Antidepressant Medications.Journal of human lactation : official journal of International Lactation Consultant AssociationMothers using antirheumatic medications at delivery were less likely to breastfeed, more likely to supplement with formula, and more likely to stop before 6 months. Mothers continuing antidepressants also supplemented more.
• RNMeta-Analysis2025Effectiveness of Transtheoretical Model-Based Motivational Interviewing on Glycemic Control Among Adults With Type 2 Diabetes: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Randomized Control Trials.Worldviews on evidence-based nursingIn adults with type 2 diabetes, stage-based motivational interviewing lowered HbA1c by 0.92 versus usual care, and improved self-management and self-efficacy. Session dose varied, so exact frequency is uncertain.
• RNQualitative2025Improved Mental Health Support for Patients With Self-Harm Injuries in the Emergency Department: Design and Development of a Future Patient Care Pathway.International journal of mental health nursingPatients, families and staff developed two nurse-led emergency department pathways for self-harm: 24/7 mental-health outreach, and two nurses split between emergency and psychiatric services. Neither was tested.
• RNMeta-Analysis2025Effectiveness of Nursing Care Intervention for Patients With Pulmonary Tuberculosis: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Nursing openNursing care packages for pulmonary TB were linked to higher medication compliance, better psychological and social function, lower anxiety and depression, and fewer adverse reactions. Knowledge gains were not confirmed.
• RNOther2025Examining Health Literacy and Appropriateness of Commercially Developed Patient Education Materials for Adults Living With Diabetes on the U.S./Mexico Border.Clinical nursing researchMost adults with diabetes in this rural border sample had inadequate health literacy, and the commercially produced English and Spanish handouts were harder to read than recommended and gave few actionable steps.
• RNSystematic Review2025Impact of Nurse-Driven Analgesia and Sedation Protocols on Medication Exposure and Withdrawal in Critically Ill Children: A Systematic Review.Nursing in critical careNurse-driven pain and sedation protocols in PICUs usually lowered benzodiazepine doses, but opioid dose changes were less clear. For nurses, this supports structured titration and documentation, not a proven way to reduce opioids or ventilation time.
• RNQualitative2025Optimising Weight Management Advice for Adults Prescribed Antidepressants: A Qualitative Interview Study of Experiences.International journal of mental health nursingAdults taking antidepressants said healthcare professionals should bring up weight gain during reviews, not leave it to a leaflet. Shame and fear of judgement made many avoid talking about weight, especially when mental health felt more urgent.
• RNQualitative2025Invisible Struggle: Diabetes Self-Management Through the Eyes of Diabetic Individuals With Retinopathy.Nursing & health sciencesThirteen women with diabetic retinopathy described vision loss making insulin dosing, glucose reading, meal preparation, and exercise unsafe or hard. They wanted family and health professional support, and audible or automated diabetes devices.
• RNSystematic Review2025Women's knowledge about Intrauterine Device and user satisfaction in Brazil: a systematic review.Revista da Escola de Enfermagem da U S PBrazilian women often lacked accurate IUD knowledge, including false beliefs about infertility, cancer and abortion, and feared insertion, while users reported high satisfaction.
• RNQualitative2025Cultural Interpretations of Patients and Employees in an Organization Certified Through the Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative: A Focused Ethnographic Study.Journal of human lactation : official journal of International Lactation Consultant AssociationPatients and staff described breastfeeding support as depending on accessible education, hands-on help, and coordination with families and discharge. Workload, infant health problems, and pandemic barriers could still make consistent support difficult.
• RNOther2025The Effect of a Pulmonary Care Bundle Implemented With Cardiac Surgery Patients on Recovery.Nursing in critical careCardiac surgery patients receiving a nurse-delivered pulmonary bundle reported better overall recovery, comfort, and physical independence than those receiving standard care. However, respiratory complication rates and shortness of breath did not differ significantly between the groups.
• RNSurvey2025The Relationship Between Staff and Patient Interactions and Patients' Perceptions of Good Quality of Care in Psychiatric Outpatient Services-A Structural Equation Model.Scandinavian journal of caring sciencesPatients who felt staff showed interest in their feelings rated care as more empowering, especially when staff invited a relationship and gave clear information. These are associations, not proof of cause.
• RNMeta-Analysis2025Endotracheal Tube-Associated Complications in Paediatric Critical Care: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Nursing in critical careCritically ill children with endotracheal tubes developed ventilator-associated pneumonia at 13.5 per 1000 ventilator days, accidental extubation at 7.4 per 1000 days, and tube blockage at 5.0 per 1000 days. Rates varied widely.
• RNQualitative2025I Just Want to Know if I Was Safe: Views of Consumers About Sexual Safety on Acute Mental Health In-Patient Units.International journal of mental health nursingTwelve consumers described feeling sexually unsafe on acute mental health wards, often because other consumers or staff actions made them uneasy. They wanted nurses to ask about safety at admission and check in daily, and most used avoidance instead.
• RNRCT2025Central Nervous System Polypharmacy Among People Living With Dementia.Journal of the American Medical Directors AssociationDeprescribing education did not reduce the proportion of people with dementia meeting criteria for risky central nervous system polypharmacy. The most common high-risk medication combinations involved antidepressants, opioids, and gabapentin or pregabalin.
• RNQualitative2025Perceptions and Practices of Clinicians Undertaking Invasive Procedures With Patients Experiencing Delirium in Hospital: A Sequential Mixed Methods Study.Nursing & health sciencesClinicians reported planning, knowing the patient, calm simple communication, distraction, and postponement. Restraint was a last resort. In 24 observed procedures, 7 patients were distressed and 2 were abandoned.
• RNCohort2025What Makes Paediatric Patients So Much at Risk of Medical Adhesive-Related Skin Injury in Intensive Care Unit?Nursing in critical care44 of 72 paediatric ICU patients developed 140 medical adhesive skin injuries; skin stripping and facial injuries were common. Age under 12 months, more devices, and sedation over 24 hours were linked to higher risk.
• PTOTSLPRNCohort2025Association Between Residents' Perceived Importance of Family Involvement in Overall Care Planning and Rehabilitative Therapy Administration in Nursing Homes.Journal of the American Medical Directors AssociationNursing home residents who rated family involvement as very important received more physical and occupational therapy minutes than those who did not. The difference was small, averaging 5 fewer minutes for those rating it somewhat important.
• OTRNSurvey2025The Relationship Between Learning Needs and Care Dependency in Individuals With Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease.Scandinavian journal of caring sciencesCOPD patients showed partial dependence in daily activities and frequent inhaler errors. Medication learning needs were more important than met. Fulfilled learning needs were weakly associated with greater independence, not proof meeting learning needs reduces dependency.
• RNOther2025Nursing and Continuing Care Management Work Plan for People Living With COVID-19: Case Study of the Nakhon Pathom Province.JMIR nursingA community database and post-COVID care plan was rated highly by health professionals. It sets out monitoring, education and referral steps, but does not test patient outcomes.
• RNCohort2025Incidence of prevalent diseases in infants in Primary Health Care: a cohort study.Revista da Escola de Enfermagem da U S PRespiratory problems were the most common recorded health issue in infants in primary care, peaking around month 5. More than half had at least one treatment, and most care was delivered by family health strategy doctors.
• RNRCT2025A Randomized Controlled Trial of a Telehealth Group Intervention to Reduce Perinatal Depressive Symptoms: A Mixed Methods Analysis.Journal of midwifery & women's healthThe mindfulness telehealth group did not reduce perinatal depression symptoms more than childbirth/parenting classes; both groups improved similarly, and participants valued connection and shared experience.
• RNSurvey2025Exploring Determinants of Foot Self-Care Behaviors Across Adherence Levels in Patients With Diabetic Foot Ulcer History: A Quantile Regression Approach.Nursing & health sciencesIn adults with prior diabetic foot ulcers, foot care knowledge was linked to better self-care across all adherence levels. Stigma, severe depression and social support were linked mainly at higher adherence.
• RNCohort2025Frailty, Latent Health Profiles, and Antiretroviral Therapy: Predicting Success of Skilled Nursing Facility Care in an HIV Population.Journal of the American Medical Directors AssociationAfter a skilled nursing stay, people with HIV who were frail or pre-frail had more days not at home over a year than robust people, especially those frail.
• RNOther2025Health Care and Health Information Access by Parents With Young Children in Regional Queensland.The Australian journal of rural healthParents in regional Queensland mostly started online searches when their child was unwell, then used GPs, phone health services, family or social media. They trusted government, hospital and GP sources, but did not search for health-promotion information.
• RNOther2025Factors Associated With Postoperative Complications Among Critical Patients Undergoing Open-Heart Surgery: A Cross-Sectional Study.Nursing openAfter open-heart surgery, frailty, packed red cells, vasopressor/inotrope doses and operative risk were linked to more severe 24-hour complications in 192 patients. Kidney function, inflammation and central venous pressure did not show this link in the final model.
• RNMeta-Analysis2025The Efficacy of Nurse-Delivered Psychosocial and Psychotherapeutic Interventions for Individuals With Mental Health Issues: A Meta-Analysis of Randomised Controlled Trials.Scandinavian journal of caring sciencesNurse-delivered psychosocial and psychotherapeutic interventions showed improvements in depression, anxiety and quality of life in people with mental health issues. The trials varied widely in condition, intervention and duration, so this does not point to one best programme.
• RNRCT2025The e-PainSupport Digital Application for Assessing Pain and Pain Management in Home Hospice: A Randomized Controlled Trial.Western journal of nursing researchThe caregiver app bundle, which combined education, tracking, and nurse alerts, did not lower patient pain more than usual hospice care over 14 days. Caregiver medication adherence improved more than in usual care, but the main pain outcome was null.
• RNCohort2025Mammography Screening Among Women Living With HIV in the United States: A Quantitative Analysis of the Role of Health Care Empowerment.The Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care : JANACWomen living with HIV who reported being informed, committed, collaborative and engaged in their care were more likely to report a mammogram over 2 years. Tolerance of uncertainty and total empowerment were not associated.
• RNRCT2025An Embedded Pragmatic Clinical Trial of the Individualized Positive Psychosocial Interaction (IPPI) Program.Journal of the American Medical Directors AssociationResident mood improved immediately in 59% of brief preference-based one-to-one interactions delivered by nursing home staff. There was no control group, so this does not show IPPI reduced distress versus usual care.
• RNSurvey2025Factors Associated With Dementia Worry Among Middle-Aged or Older Adults Living in a Japanese Community: A Cross-Sectional Study.International journal of mental health nursingAmong middle-aged or older community adults without dementia, greater worry about developing dementia was linked to greater knowledge of dementia, more bothersome symptoms, moderate or severe depression, and a parent diagnosed with dementia.
• RNMeta-Analysis2025Effectiveness of Psychosocial Interventions on Stress, Anxiety, Depression, and Quality of Life in Parents of Children, Adolescents, and Young Adults With Cancer: A Meta-Analysis of RCTs.Nursing & health sciencesAcross 21 randomized trials, psychosocial interventions for parents of children with cancer reduced anxiety, depression, stress, and improved quality of life. CBT and other approaches did not differ clearly, and long-term benefit is unclear.
• RNCohort2025Clinical management and outcomes in severe COVID-19: acute respiratory distress syndrome across two waves.Revista da Escola de Enfermagem da U S PMortality was more than double in the first wave compared with the second wave among patients with severe COVID-19 ARDS. Second-wave patients had less organ dysfunction and less invasive ventilation or hemodialysis.
• RNQualitative2025The Role of Stigma in Help-Seeking Strategies Among African Migrants in Australia: A Qualitative Study.International journal of mental health nursingAfrican migrants described stigma delaying mental health help-seeking: fear of being called mad, communal shame, and spiritual beliefs led some to suffer silently or seek church first. Clinicians should expect late presentation and ask about stigma and spiritual beliefs.
• RNCohort2025Sleep Quality and Disruptive Factors in Intensive Care Units: A Comparison Between Mechanically Ventilated and Spontaneously Breathing Patients.Nursing in critical careMechanically ventilated ICU patients rated their sleep worse than spontaneously breathing patients, especially depth, falling asleep and returning to sleep. Pain and frequent vital signs disrupted ventilated patients, while nursing interventions, blood sampling, medication administration, alarms and nebuliser use disturbed others.
• RNCohort2025Efficiency of AIMS: A 4-Week Recovery Oriented Suicide Prevention Pathway.International journal of mental health nursingIn 552 people in suicidal crisis, a 4-week team pathway was entered mainly from emergency or acute care and discharged participants to community services; 6-month re-presentation was low, but no control group.
• RNSystematic Review2025Efficacy and cost-effectiveness of digital health interventions in improving hypertensive outcomes among patients with uncontrolled hypertension: A systematic review.International journal of nursing sciencesDigital health interventions for uncontrolled hypertension improved self-management and blood pressure control, reduced cardiovascular risk, and two studies showed cost-effectiveness. They worked best when combined with provider support, especially nurse feedback and consultation, rather than stand-alone.
• RNSurvey2025Determination of the Relationship Between Care Burden, Health Anxiety and Depression Levels of Caregivers of Patients Who Have Undergone Oncological Surgery.Nursing & health sciencesAmong 162 family caregivers after cancer surgery, 52% had health anxiety, 38% severe burden, and 42% mild depression. Burden, anxiety, and depression tended to rise together. Only 13.6% had received caregiving training.
• RNQualitative2025Support Networks and Care Needs: Insights From Older Vietnam-Born Australians Living With Chronic Disease.Nursing & health sciencesOlder Vietnam-born adults with chronic disease relied on family and ethnic networks, often said they had enough support, but needed Vietnamese-language health information. Ask about carer burden and language before assuming they want formal self-management programmes.
• RNMeta-Analysis2025Effectiveness of Health Promotion Programs on Blood Pressure in People With Hypertension and Prehypertension in Southeast Asian Populations: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Nursing openIn Southeast Asian adults with high blood pressure, diet-based and endurance-based programmes lowered systolic pressure by 8.32 mmHg and 9.45 mmHg, but combined diet and exercise did not show systolic lowering in pooled studies.
• RNCohort2025Analysis of Risk Factors and Nursing Strategies for Unplanned Extubation in Children: Retrospective Cohort Study.JMIR nursingThirteen unplanned extubations occurred over six years in a pediatric surgery ward. Most happened to boys under three, during holidays, and when nurses were not at the bedside. Urinary and gastric tubes were the most common culprits.