Table 2 Key aspects of the studies included in the Rapid Review
From: Exploring unfinished nursing care among nursing students: a discussion paper
Key aspects | Kalfoss, 2017 [1] | Gibbon & Crane, 2018 [24] | Najafi et al., 2021 [25] | Kalánková et al., 2021 [26] | Habermann et al., 2022 [27] | Dimitriadou et al., 2021 [9] | Palese et al., 2021 [28] |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Country | Norway | UK | Iran | Slovakia | Germany | Greece and Cyprus | Italy |
Affiliation of authors | University | University | University | University | University | University | University |
Main aims | Perceptions of missed care and contributing factors | How exposure to missed care influence students’ professional socialisation | Lived experience of missed care | How nursing students interpret rationed care and their experience | Lived experience of missed care | Perceptions of missed care occurrence, reasons, outcomes | Tool validation |
Areas explored | |||||||
Phenomenon meaning | √ | √ | √ | ||||
Units mostly affected | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | ||
Perceived causes | √ | √ | √ | √ | |||
Students’ decision-making process | √ | √ | |||||
Students dealt with it | √ | ||||||
Perceived implications | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | ||
Underlying concept | Missed Nursing Care | Missed Nursing Care | Missed Nursing Care | Rationed Nursing Care | Missed Nursing Care | Missed Nursing Care | Unfinished Care |
Study design | Explorative qualitative | Qualitative | Interpretative phenomenology | Qualitative | Qualitative | Inductive content analysis | Validation study |
Participants Students’ level | Postgraduate | Undergraduate, final year | Master’s degree students | Undergraduate, final year | Undergraduates, from 1st to 3rd year | Undergraduate, 3rd to the 4rd year | Undergraduates, from 1st to 3rd year |
Sampling | Purposeful | Participants invited and those interested involved | Purposeful | Purposeful | Purposeful | All students of five universities | All students of three universities |
Participants and response rate | 32/32 (100%) | 10 + 8 (NR) | 10/10 (100%) | 18/18 (100%) | 69/69 (100%) | 229 (Cyprus) (NR) + 381 (Greece) (NR) | 737 (61.9%) |
Data collection procedure | Six focus groups | Two focus groups | Individual, in-depth, face-to-face interview | Individual, face-to-face interview | Written online reports | Open-ended questions in a survey | Tool with closed-ended questions |
Examples of questions/items | What do you think about…? Can you give some examples…? | The problem you just read in the scenario are very similar to that reported by nurses and literature… | What comes to your mind when I say missed care? How do you feel? | Student experience with elements of care regularly rationed Reasons | Phenomenon definition, examples experienced, how they dealt with it | What are missed care events witnessed in the practice? What are the reasons and the impact? | e.g., Mouth care; how often omitted/delayed (or witnessed nurses omitting/delaying) ‘always’ - ‘never’ Causes: e.g., tensions among nurses; ‘not a significant’- ‘significant reason’ |
Ethical/IRB approval | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |