Characteristics of moral distress from nurses' perspectives: An integrative review.

Objective: This integrative review aimed to identify the common characteristics of moral distress in nursing and distinguish it from other types of distress by examining nurses' perspectives in the literature. These insights will help update existing tools and create new ones to capture moral distress better, guiding the development and implementation of strategies to support nurses in addressing this challenge.

Methods: Whittemore and Knafl's integrative review method was employed to guide a systematic search for literature in three databases (EBSCO Medline, CINAHL, and PubMed).

Closing the gaps in defining and conceptualising acceptability of healthcare: a qualitative thematic content analysis.

Introduction: Despite the importance of healthcare acceptability, the public health community has yet to agree on its explicit definition and conceptual framework. We explored different definitions and conceptual frameworks of healthcare acceptability, and identified commonalities in order to develop an integrated definition and conceptual framework of healthcare acceptability.

Materials And Methods: We applied qualitative thematic content analysis on research articles that attempted to define healthcare acceptability.

Holistic management of female infertility: A systematic review.

Although issues pertaining to infertility affect both males and females, women often become victims of stigmatization and rejection, making them susceptible to emotional pain and suffering. Due to these psychosocial problems, they require not only biomedical treatment, but also psychological, social, and spiritual support. Unfortunately, many women with infertility are not treated holistically.

Risk Assessment in Mental Health Practice: An Integrative Review.

Although risk assessment in mental health practice can influence and measure treatment outcomes and level of care provision, risk assessment practices are not standardised and different screening tools are used. The aim of this integrative review was to review the literature on risk assessment in mental health practice to promote evidence-based care. Electronic databases were searched for articles available in English and published from 2013 to 2019.

Reframing Personal and Professional Values: A Substantive Theory of Facilitating Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Intersex Youth-Inclusive Primary Health Care by Nurses.

LGBTI youth are prone to health-care inequalities and experience poorer health outcomes than the general population. Nurses are not always equipped to effectively respond to LGBTI healthcare needs. The aim of the study was to develop substantive theory based on the social processes involved in facilitating LGBTI youth-inclusive primary healthcare.

A hermeneutic literature review to conceptualise altruism as a value in nursing.

Background: Discussions on ethics of care are needed to shape the identity of nurses and nursing. In light of the discourses surrounding nursing and altruism, nurses should initiate research on altruism and nursing.

Aim: The purpose of this literature review was to explore the meaning of altruism as a value in nursing.

"They brought my smile back": A phenomenological description of widows' experiences of psychosocial support.

The consequences of widowhood can be overwhelming. Widows sometimes experience difficulties to obtain psychosocial support to overcome the challenges they face. In this phenomenological study, purposively selected widows were asked about their experiences of widowhood in terms of different sources of support.

Newly qualified nurses' perceptions of working at mental health facilities: A qualitative study.

WHAT IS ALREADY KNOWN ABOUT THE TOPIC?: Newly qualified nurses often feel overwhelmed by the challenges of the work environment and struggle to transition into healthcare work environments. Nurses require opportunities during the transition period to develop both competence and confidence in their ability to practise independently. WHAT THE PAPER ADDS TO EXISTING KNOWLEDGE?: Newly qualified mental health nurses experience fear during their adaptation period, especially when they perceive mental healthcare users as dangerous and the working environment as risky, with little concern for their safety.

Emergency nurses' ways of coping influence their ability to empower women to move beyond the oppression of intimate partner violence.

Background: Millennium Developmental Goal 3 (MDG 3) aims at enhancing gender equity and empowerment of women. Emergency nurses who often encounter women injured by their intimate partners are at risk of developing vicarious traumatisation, which may influence their ability to empower women to move beyond the oppression of intimate partner violence.

Aim: This article aims to, (1) describe emergency nurses' ways of coping with the exposure to survivors of intimate partner violence, and (2) recommend a way towards effective coping that will enhance emergency nurses' abilities to empower women to move beyond the oppression of intimate partner violence to contribute to the achievement of MDG 3.

Two male nurses' experiences of caring for female patients after intimate partner violence: a South African perspective.

Background: South Africa is perceived to be one of the countries with the worst reputation regarding the occurrence of intimate partner violence. The women who suffer from serious physical injuries are admitted to emergency care units and their first contact with health care is through the nurses in these units. Emergency care nurses become secondary victims of violence due to their exposure to the pain of assaulted patients.

Emergency nurses' experiences of caring for survivors of intimate partner violence.

Aim: To report a study of emergency nurses' experiences of caring for survivors of intimate partner violence.

Background: Emergency nurses have the opportunity to intervene during the period following exposure to intimate partner violence when survivors are most receptive for interventions. The confrontation with the trauma of intimate partner violence can, however, affect emergency nurses' ability to engage empathetically with survivors, which is fundamental to all interventions.