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  1. Appropriate allocation of nursing staff is key to ensuring efficient nursing in hospitals, and is significantly correlated with patient safety, nursing quality, and nurse job satisfaction. However, there are f...

    Authors: Hong-fei Ren, Feng-jiao Chen, Ling-xiao He, Chang-qing Liu, Ying-ying Liu, Yu-jia Huang, Hui Han, Su Fu, Ming-guang Zhang and Yan Jiang
    Citation: BMC Nursing 2022 21:23
  2. Unfavorable attitude toward nursing profession remaining the global issue across in the various level of health institutions attitude is the most important concept in nursing. Because of high ambiguity and rol...

    Authors: Abdurkie Defa Rekisso, Zuriash Mengistu and Teshome Habte Wurjine
    Citation: BMC Nursing 2022 21:21
  3. Pressure injures are a common adverse event in a hospital, and they are one of the most important quality indicators of patient care. Risk assessment is recommended as the first step in the prevention of press...

    Authors: Anniina Heikkilä, Jaana Kotila and Kristiina Junttila
    Citation: BMC Nursing 2022 21:18
  4. Professional communication and professional values are two basic concepts in operating rooms and should be studied more closely in view of the nature of work and the high circulation of patients in operating r...

    Authors: Sedigheh Yeganeh, Camellia Torabizadeh, Tayebeh Bahmani, Zahra Molazem, Hamed Yeganeh Doust and Samira Daneshvar Dehnavi
    Citation: BMC Nursing 2022 21:17
  5. The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is now a major public health emergency in the world. Nurses as key members of the COVID-19 patient care team are exposed to most challenges caused by the disease. As explorin...

    Authors: Sudabeh Ahmadidarrehsima, Nasibeh Salari, Neda Dastyar and Foozieh Rafati
    Citation: BMC Nursing 2022 21:16
  6. To enable safe and successful recovery for surgery patients, nurses working in post-anaesthesia care units need competence in postoperative care. No consensus defines what this specific competence includes, an...

    Authors: Karuna Dahlberg, Ann-Sofie Sundqvist, Ulrica Nilsson and Maria Jaensson
    Citation: BMC Nursing 2022 21:14
  7. The global COVID-19 pandemic has led to the need for educators to explore online platforms in delivering lessons to students. Home-based learning is one of the most commonly-used teaching methods that allow le...

    Authors: Yanan Hu, Jenna Qing Yun Ow Yong, Mui-Lee Cecilia Chng, Ziqiang Li and Yong-Shian Goh
    Citation: BMC Nursing 2022 21:13
  8. Evaluation of a complex intervention are often described as being diminished by difficulties regarding acceptability, compliance, delivery of the intervention, recruitment and retention. Research of peer learn...

    Authors: Ylva Pålsson, Maria Engström, Christine Leo Swenne and Gunilla Mårtensson
    Citation: BMC Nursing 2022 21:12
  9. The COVID-19 pandemic compounded political and financial pressures on the nursing workforce in Lebanon. The government resigned in October 2019 in response to the popular uprising that called for an end to cor...

    Authors: Michael Clinton, Karen Bou-Karroum, Myrna Abdullah Doumit, Nathalie Richa and Mohamad Alameddine
    Citation: BMC Nursing 2022 21:11
  10. Transition from a clinical expert nurse to a  part time clinical nursing instructor (PTCNI) poses several challenges. Designing a professional development curriculum to facilitate the transition from a clinica...

    Authors: Shourangiz Beiranvand, Sima Mohammad Khan Kermanshahi, Robabeh Memarian and Mohammad Almasian
    Citation: BMC Nursing 2022 21:10
  11. In low and middle-income countries, nurses and midwives are the frontline healthcare workers in obstetric care. Insights into experiences of these healthcare workers in managing obstetric emergencies are criti...

    Authors: Aurore Nishimwe, Daphney Nozizwe Conco, Marc Nyssen and Latifat Ibisomi
    Citation: BMC Nursing 2022 21:9
  12. A poor understanding of health literacy and inadequate health practices among nurses can be detrimental to a population’s health. The starting point of solving this problem is through the provision of methodic...

    Authors: Takaedza Munangatire, Nestor Tomas and Violetha Mareka
    Citation: BMC Nursing 2022 21:8
  13. Death and destructions are often reported during natural disasters; yet little is known about how hospitals operate during disasters and if there are sufficient resources available for hospitals to provide ong...

    Authors: Yin Li, Jason M. Hockenberry, Jiaoan Chen and Jeannie P. Cimiotti
    Citation: BMC Nursing 2022 21:7

    The Correction to this article has been published in BMC Nursing 2022 21:310

  14. Significant improvements in under-five mortality in Malawi have been demonstrated over the past thirty years; however, Malawian healthcare remains with gaps in availability and access to quality pediatric crit...

    Authors: Kelsey Renning, Brittney van de Water, Shelley Brandstetter, Chisomo Kasitomu, Netsayi Gowero, Miriam Simbota and Maureen Majamanda
    Citation: BMC Nursing 2022 21:6
  15. Healthy aging with dignity and aging in place are important for Taiwanese individuals. Although Taiwan did not experience COVID-19 outbreaks prior to May 2021, many older adults have been encouraged to stay at...

    Authors: Mei-Hua Yeh, Cheng-Hsien Huang, Yu-Chih Lin, Tung-Jung Huang and Mei-Yen Chen
    Citation: BMC Nursing 2022 21:4
  16. Nursing research training is important for improving the nursing research competencies of clinical nurses. Rigorous development of such training programs is crucial for ensuring the effectiveness of these rese...

    Authors: Qirong Chen, Zeen Li, Siyuan Tang, Chuyi Zhou, Aimee R. Castro, Shan Jiang, Chongmei Huang and Jinnan Xiao
    Citation: BMC Nursing 2022 21:2
  17. Effective provider-patient communication is crucial to the delivery of high-quality care. Communication roadblock such as righting reflex is widely observed among providers and can lead to relational disengage...

    Authors: Geneviève Rouleau, Marie-Pierre Gagnon, José Côté, Lauralie Richard, Gabrielle Chicoine and Jérôme Pelletier
    Citation: BMC Nursing 2022 21:1
  18. 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
  19. Providing futile medical care is an ever-timely ethical problem in clinical practice. While nursing personnel are very closely involved in providing direct care to patients nearing the end of life, their role ...

    Authors: Polychronis Voultsos, Anna Tsompanian and Alexandra K. Tsaroucha
    Citation: BMC Nursing 2021 20:254
  20. Mindfulness can potentially positively impact well-being and resilience in undergraduate nursing students. The psychological well-being of such students undertaking clinical training is paramount to ensure opt...

    Authors: Clare Mc Veigh, Joanne Reid, Claire Carswell, Lindsay Ace, Ian Walsh, Lisa Graham-Wisener, Soham Rej, Angela Potes, Karen Atkinson, Trudi Edginton and Helen Noble
    Citation: BMC Nursing 2021 20:253
  21. 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
  22. Nurses are key to the success of patient engagement, yet we know little about nurses’ perceptions on treatment engagement and how they can contribute to treatment engagement. Qualitative evidence to identify f...

    Authors: Amineh Rashidi, Lisa Whitehead and Prachi Kaistha
    Citation: BMC Nursing 2021 20:251
  23. 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
  24. 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
  25. 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
  26. 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
  27. 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
  28. 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
  29. 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
  30. 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
  31. 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
  32. 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
  33. 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
  34. 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
  35. 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
  36. 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
  37. 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
  38. 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
  39. 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
  40. 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
  41. 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

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