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  1. Nurses are trained to establish a trusting relationship with patients to create an environment promoting patients’ quality of life. However, in tech-heavy care settings, such as haemodialysis units, dehumanisi...

    Authors: Matteo Antonini, Tanja Bellier-Teichmann, Louise O’reilly, Chantal Cara, Sylvain Brousseau, Jean Weidmann, Delphine Roulet-Schwab, Isabelle Ledoux, Mario Konishi, Jérôme Pasquier and Philippe Delmas
    Citation: BMC Nursing 2021 20:255
  2. Health policies are currently being implemented to cope with the 37% of those affected by chronic disease and 63% of deaths worldwide. Among the proposals, there is accelerating support for greater autonomy fo...

    Authors: Valérie Loizeau, Jean-Manuel Morvillers, Dominique Pougheon Bertrand, Kelley Kilpatrick and Monique Rothan-Tondeur
    Citation: BMC Nursing 2021 20:252
  3. Nurses are faced with varying job stressors depending on their positions and duties. Few previous studies have compared job stress and related chronic conditions among different nursing positions. The objectiv...

    Authors: Po-Ya Chang, Shu-Ti Chiou, Wen-Yen Lo, Nicole Huang and Li-Yin Chien
    Citation: BMC Nursing 2021 20:250
  4. Every person has a persona (or mask) which is the façade that every person shows to the world. Thus, males use façade to reveal or conceal their true feelings and emotions. Also, the male uses mental health fa...

    Authors: Ejercito Mangawa Balay-odao, Nahed Alquwez, Abdulellah Al Thobaity, Khalaf Al Otaibi, Yousef Ali Abdulrahman Alsakran and Jonas Preposi Cruz
    Citation: BMC Nursing 2021 20:249
  5. Nurses’ knowledge and attitude regarding the care of older people can have an impact on patient outcomes such as reduced length of hospital stays, reduced readmission rates, and increased patient and family sa...

    Authors: Firomsa Fita, Habtamu Sewunet Mekonnen, Helen Lamesgin Endalew and Abere Woretaw Azagew
    Citation: BMC Nursing 2021 20:248
  6. The safe and standard handling of antineoplastic drugs can reduce the effects of occupational exposure and promote safe behaviors in nurses. Thus, the present study aimed to determine the effects ofstandard gu...

    Authors: A Nouri, M Seyed Javadi, E Iranijam and M Aghamohammadi
    Citation: BMC Nursing 2021 20:247
  7. The shortage of psychiatric nurses is a major healthcare challenge. Lack of interest (LOI) contributes to the shortage of psychiatric nurses. Nonetheless, there are limited studies in this area. The present st...

    Authors: Narges Rahmani, Eesa Mohammadi and Masoud Fallahi-Khoshknab
    Citation: BMC Nursing 2021 20:246
  8. Empathy is described as a core competence of nursing. There is abundant research evidence supporting that empathy varies according to personal characteristics and targeted training. The aim of this study was t...

    Authors: Nancy Berduzco-Torres, Pamela Medina, Montserrat San-Martín, Roberto C. Delgado Bolton and Luis Vivanco
    Citation: BMC Nursing 2021 20:245
  9. Advances in technology and the expansion of nursing roles have led to complex ethical issues in nursing. Nursing students are the future clinical nursing workers and practitioners. The ethical sensitivity of n...

    Authors: Haitao Yu, Tong Tong, Ye Gao, Hui Zhang, Huijuan Tong and Chunguang Liang
    Citation: BMC Nursing 2021 20:244
  10. This study aims to investigate the effects of a nursing quality control and audit application (app) on the autonomous learning of nursing staff and nursing quality management by nursing supervisors. A multilev...

    Authors: K. O. Pei-Ying, H. O. Chen-Shie and L. I. A. O. Pei-Hung
    Citation: BMC Nursing 2021 20:243
  11. Self-directed learning is important in nursing as it is associated with improved clinical and moral competencies in providing quality and cost-effective care among people. However, unethical professional condu...

    Authors: Walter C. Millanzi, Patricia Z. Herman and Mahamudu R. Hussein
    Citation: BMC Nursing 2021 20:242
  12. Nursing care should be respectful of and unrestricted by patients’ age, ethnicity, gender, dis/abilities or social status, and such values should be taught to nursing students. Nursing teachers are crucial as ...

    Authors: Inger K Holmström, Elenor Kaminsky, Anna T Höglund and Marianne Carlsson
    Citation: BMC Nursing 2021 20:240
  13. Nursing in psychiatric wards is considered a highly stressful career due to the type of patients and the problem of communicating with them. Finding appropriate solutions to overcome this stress can improve th...

    Authors: Seyyed Arman Hosseini Zarvijani, Ladan Fattah moghaddam and Samaneh Parchebafieh
    Citation: BMC Nursing 2021 20:239
  14. The essence and workload of nursing can easily lead to burdens associated with female nurses’ menstrual symptoms, and consequently, result in decreased working performance. Without effective support this can l...

    Authors: Shu-Chuan Yu, Hsiao-Pei Hsu, Jong-Long Guo, Shu-Fen Chen, Shu-He Huang, Yin-Chen Chen and Chiu-Mieh Huang
    Citation: BMC Nursing 2021 20:238
  15. Although mental health disorders of health care workers in the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic have been focused, little is known about the psychological impact on nurses and the influence on thei...

    Authors: Mitsuto Hasuike, Yoshiaki Hara, Hiroko-Miyuki Mori, Norio Ideguchi, Fumie Shirai, Yasuko Yoshimura, Ikumi Murakami, Hirohisa Kawahata, Motokuni Aoki and Toshio Ogihara
    Citation: BMC Nursing 2021 20:237
  16. Peripheral intravenous catheters (PIVCs) are the most widely used intravenous treatment tools for hospitalized patients. Compared to adult patients, PIVC fixation issues are more likely to occur in pediatric p...

    Authors: Li-Sha Huang, Yan Huang and Juan Hu
    Citation: BMC Nursing 2021 20:236
  17. Interprofessional teamwork is crucial for fostering healthcare performance and for minimizing adverse events. The daily huddle is an important arena for interprofessional interaction and communication between ...

    Authors: Ingunn Aase, Ingrid Tjoflåt and Kristin Hjorthaug Urstad
    Citation: BMC Nursing 2021 20:235
  18. Simulation exercises are increasingly being used as a teaching method in the field of undergraduate nursing education. Thus, the present study sought to identify, describe and discuss enablers of the successfu...

    Authors: Kristine Haddeland, Åshild Slettebø and Mariann Fossum
    Citation: BMC Nursing 2021 20:234
  19. Community-based education, as an effective approach to strengthen nurses’ skills in response to society’s problems and needs has increased in nursing education programs. The aim of this study was to review the...

    Authors: Arezoo Zeydani, Foroozan Atashzadeh-Shoorideh, Fatemeh Abdi, Meimanat Hosseini, Sima Zohari-Anboohi and Victoria Skerrett
    Citation: BMC Nursing 2021 20:233
  20. Social interactions between registered nurses, older patients and their relatives are essential and play a central role in developing a successful care relationship in healthcare encounters. How nurses interac...

    Authors: Anette Johnsson, Ã…se Boman, Petra Wagman and Sandra Pennbrant
    Citation: BMC Nursing 2021 20:232
  21. This study aims to develop an instrument to measure infectious disease specialist nurses’ core competence and examining the scale’s validity and reliability.

    Authors: Chao Wu, Jiaran Yan, Jing Wu, Ping Wu, Feixia Cheng, Lina Du, Yanling Du, Shang Lei and Hongjuan Lang
    Citation: BMC Nursing 2021 20:231
  22. Nurses play a core role and encompass the main workforce in health care systems. Their role model of health promoting lifestyle behaviors (HPLB) would directly or indirectly affect their clients’ beliefs or at...

    Authors: Wen Zeng, Shaomei Shang, Qian Fang, Shan He, Juan Li and Yuanrong Yao
    Citation: BMC Nursing 2021 20:230
  23. This study aimed to map and summarise the state of the research regarding doctoral programs in nursing, as well as the issues debated in the context of nursing doctoral education. A Scoping Review in accordanc...

    Authors: Beata Dobrowolska, Paweł Chruściel, Anna Pilewska-Kozak, Violetta Mianowana, Marta Monist and Alvisa Palese
    Citation: BMC Nursing 2021 20:228
  24. The operating room nurse is, among other things, responsible for patient safety and maintaining an aseptic environment. For hygienic reasons unnecessary traffic in the operating room should be avoided, which m...

    Authors: Jenny Golvani, Linda Roos and Maria Henricson
    Citation: BMC Nursing 2021 20:227
  25. Although the use of mobile devices can facilitate the learning process, there may be barriers to using them for learning purposes. This study aimed to identify and investigate the barriers and facilitators of ...

    Authors: Nasrin Nikpeyma, Mitra Zolfaghari and Aeen Mohammadi
    Citation: BMC Nursing 2021 20:226
  26. Young adults are likely to have activities and go to bed late at night due to their age-dependent delayed endogenous circadian clock. The purpose of the present study was to clarify sleep–wake rhythm and its a...

    Authors: Momoko Kayaba, Toshiko Matsushita, Noriko Katayama, Yuichi Inoue and Taeko Sasai-Sakuma
    Citation: BMC Nursing 2021 20:225
  27. Despite the numerous benefits associated with physical activity (PA), most nurses are not active enough and few interventions have been developed to promote PA among nurses. A secondary analysis of raw data fr...

    Authors: Jennifer Brunet, Melissa Black, Heather E. Tulloch, Andrew L. Pipe, Robert D. Reid and Jennifer L. Reed
    Citation: BMC Nursing 2021 20:224
  28. Providing care to older individuals with complex needs and patients with chronic illness is a concern worldwide. In Norway, this situation led to the transfer of responsibility for care and treatment to the mu...

    Authors: Bodil J. Landstad, Torstein Hole, Aasta-Marie Sveino Strand and Marit Kvangarsnes
    Citation: BMC Nursing 2021 20:223
  29. The most basic responsibility of nurses that even precedes their therapeutic role is respect for professional ethics in providing clinical care. The present study was conducted to determine the effect of group...

    Authors: Marzieh Momennasab, Marjan Ghanbari and Mozhgan Rivaz
    Citation: BMC Nursing 2021 20:222
  30. Nursing is a caring profession. Due to the nature of their work, nurses need to have the moral courage to deliver safe nursing care. Research results have reported a low level of moral courage in the majority ...

    Authors: Mahnaz Rakhshan, Noushin Mousazadeh, Hamideh Hakimi and Fahimeh Alsadat Hosseini
    Citation: BMC Nursing 2021 20:221
  31. Although much research has focused on nurses’ retirement intentions, little is known about nurses who formally retire yet continue to practice, particularly in rural and remote settings where mobilization of a...

    Authors: Martha L. P. MacLeod, Lela V. Zimmer, Julie G. Kosteniuk, Kelly L. Penz and Norma J. Stewart
    Citation: BMC Nursing 2021 20:220
  32. A new coronavirus, called COVID-19, is an acute respiratory disease, which may arouse many psychological disorders since there is no specialized knowledge about it. The present study aimed to investigate the l...

    Authors: Ali Reza Yusefi, Salman Daneshi, Esmat Rezabeigi Davarani, Parnian Nikmanesh, Gholamhossein Mehralian and Peivand Bastani
    Citation: BMC Nursing 2021 20:219
  33. Adequate levels of vitamin D are important for women of childbearing age as vitamin D helps maintain the pregnancy and ensures proper maternal and fetal bone metabolism and fetal skeletal development. However,...

    Authors: Yanghee Pang, Oksoo Kim, Jung-Ah Choi, Heeja Jung, Jui Kim, Haeok Lee and Hyangkyu Lee
    Citation: BMC Nursing 2021 20:218
  34. Staff members, and their attitudes, are crucial for providing person-centered care in residential care facilities for people with dementia. However, the literature on the attitudes of nursing staff regarding p...

    Authors: Jogé Boumans, Leonieke van Boekel, Nathalie Kools, Aukelien Scheffelaar, Caroline Baan and Katrien Luijkx
    Citation: BMC Nursing 2021 20:217
  35. Nurses are at a high risk of developing mental health problems due to exposure to work environment risk factors. Previous research in this area has only examined a few factors within nurses’ work environments,...

    Authors: Farinaz Havaei, Xuejun Ryan Ji, Maura MacPhee and Heather Straight
    Citation: BMC Nursing 2021 20:216
  36. Patient experience of nursing care is associated with safety, care quality, treatment outcomes, costs and service use. Effective nursing care includes meeting patients’ fundamental physical, relational and psy...

    Authors: Holly V. R. Sugg, Anne-Marie Russell, Leila M. Morgan, Heather Iles-Smith, David A. Richards, Naomi Morley, Sarah Burnett, Emma J. Cockcroft, Jo Thompson Coon, Susanne Cruickshank, Faye E. Doris, Harriet A. Hunt, Merryn Kent, Philippa A. Logan, Anne Marie Rafferty, Maggie H. Shepherd…
    Citation: BMC Nursing 2021 20:215
  37. Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) is effective in a selected critically ill patient population with promising results in refractory hypoxemia related to the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19). Howev...

    Authors: Mateusz Puslecki, Marek Dabrowski, Konrad Baumgart, Marcin Ligowski, Agata Dabrowska, Piotr Ziemak, Sebastian Stefaniak, Lukasz Szarpak, Tammy Friedrich, Lidia Szlanga, Paulina Skorupa, Aleksandra Steliga, Kazimiera Hebel, Blazej Andrejanczyk, Malgorzata Ladzinska, Magdalena Wieczorek…
    Citation: BMC Nursing 2021 20:214
  38. Next of kin to older adults over 65 years in municipal home care are concerned whether their older adults’ needs are being met. In municipal home care, the registered nurses’ leadership is important and comple...

    Authors: Maria Claesson, Lise-Lotte Jonasson and Karin Josefsson
    Citation: BMC Nursing 2021 20:213
  39. Clinical errors are one of the challenges of health care in different countries, and obtaining accurate statistics regarding clinical errors in most countries is a difficult process which varies from one study...

    Authors: Sedighe Ghobadian, Mansour Zahiri, Behnaz Dindamal, Hossein Dargahi and Farzad Faraji-Khiavi
    Citation: BMC Nursing 2021 20:211
  40. Integration of clients’ religion/spirituality (R/S) into nursing practice can have effective outcomes in clients’ health. In this regard, nurses’ lack of competency can disrupt this process and interfere with ...

    Authors: Hasan Amiri, Jamileh Farokhzadian and Batool Tirgari
    Citation: BMC Nursing 2021 20:210
  41. Implementation of evidence-based guidelines (EBGs) related to VAP is an effective measure for the prevention of ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP). While low knowledge regarding the EBGs related to VAP prev...

    Authors: Vicent Bankanie, Anne H. Outwater, Li Wan and Li Yinglan
    Citation: BMC Nursing 2021 20:209
  42. Reflective notes in nursing education can facilitate students’ understanding of how individuals in need of home healthcare services experience unfamiliar situations, such as a pandemic. The aim of this study i...

    Authors: Leslie S. P. Eide, Tove Giske, Britt Moene Kuven and Linda Johansson
    Citation: BMC Nursing 2021 20:208
  43. The increase in the survival of oncology patients include multiple side effects as cancer-related asthenia and dyspnea, which represents a serious health problem. An implementation of the conventional clinical...

    Authors: Eduardo José Fernández-Rodríguez, Jesús González-Sánchez, Ana Silvia Puente-González, José Ignacio Recio-Rodríguez, Celia Sánchez-Gómez, Roberto Méndez-Sánchez, Juan Jesús Cruz-Hernández and María Isabel Rihuete-Galve
    Citation: BMC Nursing 2021 20:207
  44. Nurses play critical roles when providing health care in high-risk situations, such as during the COVID-19 outbreak. However, no previous study had systematically assessed nurses’ mental workloads and its inte...

    Authors: Jing Wu, Husheng Li, Zhaohui Geng, Yanmei Wang, Xian Wang and Jie Zhang
    Citation: BMC Nursing 2021 20:206
  45. As an ethical principle, showing respect for human dignity is a professional duty of all nurses. The aggressive nature of severe burn injuries makes it hard to respect the existential values and dignity of bur...

    Authors: Banafsheh Tehranineshat, Mahnaz Rakhshan, Camellia Torabizadeh, Mohammad Fararouei and Mark Gillespie
    Citation: BMC Nursing 2021 20:205
  46. Job embeddedness and professional self-concept are among the important nursing components, the existence of which help decrease occupational burnout among nurses. This study aimed to determine the protective r...

    Authors: Soghra Goliroshan, Monir Nobahar, Nayyereh Raeisdana, Zahra Ebadinejad and Parvin Aziznejadroshan
    Citation: BMC Nursing 2021 20:203

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