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  1. 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
  2. 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
  3. 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
  4. 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
  5. 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
  6. 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
  7. 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
  8. 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
  9. 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, Åse Boman, Petra Wagman and Sandra Pennbrant
    Citation: BMC Nursing 2021 20:232
  10. 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
  11. 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
  12. 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
  13. 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
  14. 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
  15. 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
  16. 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
  17. 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
  18. 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
  19. 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
  20. 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
  21. 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
  22. 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
  23. 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
  24. 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
  25. 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
  26. 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
  27. 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
  28. 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
  29. 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
  30. 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
  31. 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
  32. 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
  33. 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
  34. Delirium is more prevalent in older people and estimated to occur in up to 50% of the hospital population. Delirium comprises a spectrum of behaviours, including cognitive and attention deficits, and fluctuati...

    Authors: Beverley Ewens, Karla Seaman, Lisa Whitehead, Amanda Towell-Barnard and Michelle Young
    Citation: BMC Nursing 2021 20:202
  35. Leadership and stress are common concepts in nursing, and this study explores empirically the connection between leadership and stress of conscience in the context of aged care practice. Previous literature ha...

    Authors: Annica Backman, Karin Sjögren, Hugo Lövheim, Marie Lindkvist and David Edvardsson
    Citation: BMC Nursing 2021 20:200
  36. Sexual counseling is an essential part of cardiac rehabilitation. This study aimed to investigate Iranian nurses’ perceptions of barriers to sexual counseling for patients with myocardial infarction.

    Authors: Parvin Mangolian Shahrbabaki, Roghayeh Mehdipour-Rabori, Tayyebeh Gazestani and Mansooreh Azzizadeh Forouzi
    Citation: BMC Nursing 2021 20:196
  37. Hospital accreditation programs can positively affect nurses’ perceptions of patient safety culture. However, no previous research has identified the association between experience of hospital accreditation an...

    Authors: M. R. Kwan, H. J. Seo and S. J. Lee
    Citation: BMC Nursing 2021 20:195
  38. Several factors are associated with the incidence of burnout, including alexithymia, social support, and depression. The relative importance of these three key parameters as mediators of burnout, however, is n...

    Authors: Juhong Pei, Xinglei Wang, Haixia Chen, Hongchen Zhang, Ruiling Nan, Jing Zhang and Xinman Dou
    Citation: BMC Nursing 2021 20:194
  39. The learning environment is a vital part of the undergraduate curriculum which enable to delivery of quality education in the stipulated time. Therefore, this study aimed to evaluate the learning environment a...

    Authors: Patalee Jayaweera, Abisheka Thilakarathne, Madushanka Ratnayaka, Tharangi Shashikala, Rushani Arachchige, Lahiru Sandaruwan Galgamuwa, Nimantha Karunathilaka and Thamara Amarasekara
    Citation: BMC Nursing 2021 20:193
  40. Making fun of growing older is considered socially acceptable, yet ageist humour reinforces negative stereotypes that growing old is linked with physical and mental deterioration, dependence, and less social v...

    Authors: Sherry Dahlke, Kathleen F. Hunter, Mary T. Fox, Sandra Davidson, Nicole Perry, Laura Tamblyn Watts, Lori Schindel Martin, Jeffrey I. Butler, Christy Raymond, Alison L. Chasteen, Lynn McCleary, Veronique Boscart and Elaine Moody
    Citation: BMC Nursing 2021 20:192

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