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BMC Nursing Jun 2022We developed and psychometrically tested the Nursing Presence Scale.
AIM
We developed and psychometrically tested the Nursing Presence Scale.
BACKGROUND
Nursing presence is a foundation for professional nursing practice; therefore, it is critical to measure this concept.
INTRODUCTION
This instrument development study was designed to generate an itemized scale and psychometric testing using a sample of Iranian patients.
METHODS
Based on both a concept development and literature review, and finally face and content validity 44-item draft scale was generated. During November 2018-2019, 774 patients were surveyed. Exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses were used to evaluate the scale's construct validity; concurrent and predictive reliability of the nursing presence scale were also evaluated. We also examine the weighting to scale items.
RESULTS
The analyses yielded a 36-item, 4-factor scale that adequately fit the data. Cronbach's alpha coefficient for the whole instrument was 0.94. The intra class correlation coefficient was 0.91. Nursing Presence Scale scores were positively correlated with Revised Humane Caring Scale and predicted 25% of missed nursing care.
CONCLUSION
This 36-item has good reliability and validity, making it useful for measuring the current condition of nursing presence.
IMPLICATIONS FOR NURSING AND HEALTH POLICY
Measuring the frequency of nursing presence allows for data-driven planning and upgrading the inpatient care services.
PubMed: 35655206
DOI: 10.1186/s12912-022-00896-0 -
International Journal of Environmental... May 2022For the celebration of International Nurses Day in 2022, the International Council of Nurses (ICN) has proposed the slogan "Nursing, a voice to lead: Invest in nurses...
For the celebration of International Nurses Day in 2022, the International Council of Nurses (ICN) has proposed the slogan "Nursing, a voice to lead: Invest in nurses and respect rights for global health" [1]. [...].
Topics: Delivery of Health Care; Global Health; Humans; International Council of Nurses; Leadership
PubMed: 35627761
DOI: 10.3390/ijerph19106223 -
Cureus Dec 2023Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming healthcare, offering potential benefits and challenges. In healthcare, AI enhances efficiency, streamlines processes, and... (Review)
Review
Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming healthcare, offering potential benefits and challenges. In healthcare, AI enhances efficiency, streamlines processes, and supports decision-making. However, challenges include potential errors and biases in algorithms, data privacy concerns, legal and ethical issues, and resistance to change. In nursing, a delicate balance emerges between AI and human touch. While AI aids in data-driven decision-making and administrative tasks, it lacks the emotional intelligence, empathy, and nuanced understanding crucial to nursing care. Nurses excel in critical thinking, adaptability to dynamic situations, patient advocacy, collaboration, and establishing human connections. AI supports these functions by automating routine tasks and offering decision support tools, yet its rigidity in dynamic situations and lack of human touch pose limitations. This review underscores the necessity of careful AI integration in healthcare, acknowledging its advantages while mitigating drawbacks. In nursing, the symbiosis between AI and human qualities is vital. The role of AI should be to complement, not replace, the unique skills and empathetic aspects of nursing care. Addressing concerns related to bias, transparency, data privacy, and professional training is essential for maximizing the benefits of AI in healthcare while preserving the human touch in patient care. This article explores whether AI can replace unique nursing roles.
PubMed: 38283483
DOI: 10.7759/cureus.51150 -
Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem 2021Reflect on the evolution of pediatric nursing care from the perspective of emotions, from the conceptions of Florence Nightingale to the present.
OBJECTIVE
Reflect on the evolution of pediatric nursing care from the perspective of emotions, from the conceptions of Florence Nightingale to the present.
METHOD
Reflective study based on theoretical and experiential aspects of emotional care in pediatric nursing.
RESULTS
From Nightingale, there were many definitions regarding the nursing care in an integrative and humanist logic; and with certain bond to emotional dimension. That time, nursing care was based on the religious conceptions of charity and love of our neighbor and, despite the conceptualization that shapes nursing science today, such conceptions have not ceased to be its attribute, mainly in the care of pediatric nurses.
FINAL CONSIDERATIONS
In pediatric nursing, nurture care with affection and facilitate emotions management in each interaction nurse-child-family is crucial for caring. This emotional care should evolve into a competence that recognizes the expertise and merit of professional action.
Topics: Child; Emotions; Family; History of Nursing; History, 17th Century; History, 18th Century; History, 19th Century; History, 20th Century; History, 21st Century; Humans; Nursing Care; Pediatric Nursing; Professional Competence
PubMed: 34105638
DOI: 10.1590/0034-7167-2020-0377 -
SAGE Open Nursing 2022It is estimated that mores nurses are needed in the future, nursing students' career preferences are important to contribute the shortage of nursing manpower in Macao....
INTRODUCTION
It is estimated that mores nurses are needed in the future, nursing students' career preferences are important to contribute the shortage of nursing manpower in Macao. Little is known regarding the preferences for nursing students' career preferences and related factors among nursing students.
OBJECTIVE
To explore and investigate the career preferences and related factors among nursing students in Macao.
METHODS
A descriptive, cross-sectional survey study design was adopted to assess career preferences and related factors among nursing students in Macao.
RESULTS
In total, 217 nursing students completed surveys. The most favorite career preferences among nursing students were community health nursing, paediatric nursing, medical surgical nursing, and obstetric & gynecological nursing; while the least career preferences among nursing students were oncology and hospice nursing, mental health nursing, and ER nursing. Factors were related to "gender", "education", and "nursing is my first study preference" among Macao nursing students for career preferences.
CONCLUSION
The senior nursing students prefer working in community health nursing and the junior and female nursing students prefer working in pediatric nursing and obstetric and gynecological nursing. The more understandings of nursing students' career preferences, the better nursing curriculum design and implication to promote nursing students' intention for working in the least career preferences work.
PubMed: 35509432
DOI: 10.1177/23779608221094538 -
Child Health Nursing Research Jul 2022The present study aimed to develop and examine the effectiveness of a pediatric nursing competency-building program for nursing students.
PURPOSE
The present study aimed to develop and examine the effectiveness of a pediatric nursing competency-building program for nursing students.
METHODS
This was a quasi-experimental study with a nonequivalent control group pretest-posttest design conducted between October and December 2021. The participants included 40 nursing students (20 each in the experimental and control groups) at a university in a South Korean city. The pediatric nursing competency-building program integrated problem-based learning and simulation into clinical field practice. The experimental group participated in the program, while the control group did not. Data were analyzed using the x2 test, the independent t-test, and repeated-measures analysis of variance.
RESULTS
Pediatric nursing competency and clinical performance showed a greater increase in the experimental group than in the control group. However, the change in problem-solving ability in the experimental group was not significantly different from that in the control group.
CONCLUSION
The pediatric nursing competency-building program effectively improved students' pediatric nursing competency and clinical performance.
PubMed: 35953066
DOI: 10.4094/chnr.2022.28.3.167 -
Heliyon Jan 2023To apply the App to the curriculum could improve students' motivation and concentration, and also strengthen the effectiveness of professional knowledge of nursing...
UNLABELLED
To apply the App to the curriculum could improve students' motivation and concentration, and also strengthen the effectiveness of professional knowledge of nursing students.
OBJECTIVES
To construct and evaluate the effectiveness of smartphone applications (i-STAR) in pediatric nursing courses.
METHODS
Quasi-experimental study and two-group repeated-measure design were used to evaluate the effectiveness of smartphone applications (i-STAR) in pediatric nursing courses. The "i" means "interactive", students had to log into App and finish four steps, including "Situation(S), Task(T), Action(A), and Reflection(R). A total of 163 nursing students in the third grade of associate's degree in nursing (ADN) participated in the study. The experimental group consisted of 77 participants, whereas the control group consisted of 86 participants. The instruments included the clinical reasoning readiness scale (CRRS), self-directed learning instrument (SDLI), and learning satisfaction of students. The 1st phase was the development, construction, and testing of the "i-STAR App", including hyperbilirubinemia, pneumonia, and urinary tract infection (UTI). In the 2nd phase, students operated and applied the App in the classroom. The 3rd phase was to evaluate the effectiveness of the "i-STAR App" in the course.
RESULTS
The average scores of CRRS and SDLI were not significantly different between the two groups in the T0 andT1 (p > .05). The experimental group of CRRS and SDLI were better than the control group in T0-T1, T1-T2, and T0-T2 (p < .001). The experimental group showed better CRRS and SDLI scores than the control group in T0-T1, and T0-T2 with Repeated measures ANOVA. Also, the experimental group showed prolonged learning effectiveness. The experimental group (41.22 ± 6.08) was more satisfied than the control group (37.29 ± 7.40) (p < .05), although their academic performance was about the same (p > .05).
CONCLUSION
"i-STAR App" could enhance students' interest in pediatric nursing courses, strengthen nursing students' clinical reasoning and self-directed learning ability.
PubMed: 36711263
DOI: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2023.e13010 -
Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem Dec 2019To identify how children's stories can be used in child care. (Review)
Review
OBJECTIVE
To identify how children's stories can be used in child care.
METHOD
Integrative literature review, conducted in databases between 2000 and 2018, in three languages. Full research articles were included that agreed with the following question: "How can children's stories be used in child care?".
RESULTS
From the analysis of 16 selected articles, three categories emerged: The use of stories in the hospital; Specialized nursing intervention; and Stories in the educational dimension.
FINAL CONSIDERATIONS
Evidence shows benefits to children, families, institutions and nursing. The use of children's stories as a care intervention can occur in different situations and settings, values; boosts bonds, reduces anxiety in children and families, encourages children's participation in care, and promotes health education. It is a low-cost and still incipient strategy in nursing.
Topics: Child; Child, Preschool; Humans; Nurse-Patient Relations; Nursing Care; Pediatric Nursing; Reading
PubMed: 31851271
DOI: 10.1590/0034-7167-2018-0456 -
Applied Bionics and Biomechanics 2022In order to improve the quality of neonatal care, this study analyzed the construction of PICC and scientifically evaluated the quality of PICC.
OBJECTIVE
In order to improve the quality of neonatal care, this study analyzed the construction of PICC and scientifically evaluated the quality of PICC.
METHODS
A total of 100 neonatal patients admitted to the Pediatric Medical Intensive Care Unit of the People's Hospital in Laizhou City of Shandong Province between January 2015 and December 2018 were selected for nursing intervention. They were randomly divided into 50 cases in the observation group and 50 cases in the reference group. In the observation group, 50 were neonatal patients who received and completed PICC catheterization care, and in the reference group, 50 were neonatal patients with traditional conventional puncture care, PICC nursing quality evaluation index system, and nursing quality standard were applied, and questionnaire survey and patient satisfaction survey were conducted in the treatment. The two groups were compared for the success rate of one puncture, catheter detachment, treatment of local bleeding, incidence of nursing risk during other treatment, and other related nursing quality results.
RESULTS
The incidence of related medical and nursing risks in neonatal patients such as one-time puncture success rate, catheter detachment during treatment, and local bleeding was significantly lower than those in neonatal patients receiving conventional nursing methods. The incidence of nursing risk events during puncture was effectively reduced. It is shown in the comparison of adverse events in neonatal pediatric nursing in the fourth quarter of 2017 and 2018. In 2018, the proportion of adverse events in neonatal nursing is decreasing, the quality index of nursing is improving, and the satisfaction of patients' families and relevant personnel in treatment is increasing.
CONCLUSION
The construction and application of neonatal PICC nursing quality evaluation system can improve the success rate of one-time puncture, reduce the pain of newborns, improve the nursing quality evaluation system, scientifically and reasonably provide effective methods and basis for hospital PICC nursing, and play an important role in the development of pediatric nursing.
PubMed: 35140809
DOI: 10.1155/2022/8290526 -
Computers, Informatics, Nursing : CIN Aug 2021This article describes the development process and application of the Pediatric Nursing-Clinical Decision Support System for Hyperthermia. Firstly, we formed the...
This article describes the development process and application of the Pediatric Nursing-Clinical Decision Support System for Hyperthermia. Firstly, we formed the Pediatric Nursing-Knowledge Base for Hyperthermia, which combines publicly available clinical practice guidelines and nursing routines of hyperthermia management. Then, following the nursing process framework, the system was developed using clinical decision support technology. Finally, a pre- and post-test were adopted to examine the effectiveness, usability, and feasibility before (1st to 31st of August 2018) and after (1st to 31st of December 2019) using the system. Its effectiveness was examined by analysis of nursing records' quality, including completeness of nursing assessment, timeliness of nursing diagnosis, individualization of nursing interventions, and timeliness of nursing evaluation. Its usability and feasibility were assessed using the Clinical Nursing Information System Effectiveness Evaluation Scale. There was a significant difference between the two groups in effectiveness, usability, and feasibility. Although the system was developed specifically for our hospital workflow and processes, the Pediatric Nursing-Knowledge Base for Hyperthermia and workflow for hyperthermia management in this study can be used as a reference to other hospitals.
Topics: Child; Decision Support Systems, Clinical; Hospitals; Humans; Hyperthermia, Induced; Pediatric Nursing; Workflow
PubMed: 34347639
DOI: 10.1097/CIN.0000000000000812