[Metamorphosis of Nurses: The Development and Breakthroughs of Advanced Practice Registered Nurses].

Background: The introduction and development of the advanced practice registered nurse (APRN) is a global trend in nursing. However, the development of APRNs in Taiwan remains uncertain and lacks necessary consensus.

Purpose: This research study aimed to explore the views and suggestions of nursing experts in industry, government, and academia regarding the development of APRNs (clinical nurse specialists, case managers, certified clinical registered nurse anesthetists, and certified nurse-midwives) in Taiwan.

Depression in older residents with stroke living in long-term care facilities.

Background: Stroke is the third leading cause of death in Taiwan. Poststroke older adults are often admitted to long-term care facilities. The impacts of the two concurrent life events of stroke and relocation may increase the risk of depression in stroke survivors.

Trajectories and predictors of functional decline of hospitalised older patients.

Aims And Objectives: To delineate the trajectories of functional status over four time points and to examine predictors of functional decline (FD) in hospitalised older patients.

Background: About 30-60% of the older patients develop new dependence in activities of daily living (ADL) during a hospital stay, which results in progressive disability after discharge. The functional trajectories and risk factors of FD among hospitalised older patients require identification.

Nurses' physical restraint knowledge, attitudes, and practices: the effectiveness of an in-service education program.

Background: Physical restraints are commonly used to reduce treatment interference risk and protect patient safety. However, nurses still hold misconceptions about the use of physical restraints in acute care settings. Teaching nursing staff accurate knowledge and proper skills, cultivating positive attitudes, and rectifying irregularities in physical restraint use are all necessary to improve patient care.

[Predictors of functional decline and care for the hospitalized elderly].

The number of elderly patients in hospitals rises as a country's population ages. In Taiwan, roughly 27% of hospitalized patients are elderly. Previous studies have reported that 30% to 60% of hospitalized elderly patient experienced functional decline following discharge.

Depressive symptoms among older residents at nursing homes in Taiwan.

Aims And Objectives: To examine the depressive symptoms of older residents at nursing homes and the relationship between their depressive symptoms and certain selected variables.

Background: Depression has become a major healthcare concern among the older people, but nursing home-based studies on risk factors of depression have still hardly been well performed in Taiwan.

Design: A cross-sectional design was developed and implemented.

Nurses' feelings and thoughts about using physical restraints on hospitalized older patients.

Aim: To explore nurses' feelings and thoughts about physically restraining older hospitalized patients.

Background: The use of physical restraints is still highly prevalent in hospitals; furthermore, older patients are most likely to be so restrained. Studies in acute care settings have focused mainly on nurses' knowledge, attitudes, or practice concerning physical restraints, on physical restraint reduction programmes, on nurses' perceptions about the use of physical restraints, or on elderly patients' experiences with physical restraints.