Constructing learning confidence through jigsaw, concept maps and group cooperative learning: A qualitative study.

Aim: This study aimed to develop students' learning confidence by increasing their motivation and satisfaction.

Background: Nursing students with limited healthcare work experience often have difficulty fully understanding and sympathizing with patients' medical concerns. They also worry about their theoretical knowledge diminishing with time.

Exploring a learning model for knowledge integration and the development of critical thinking among nursing students with previous learning: a qualitative study protocol.

Students often struggle to apply their knowledge of bioscience to their care practice. Such knowledge is generally learned through remembering and understanding, but retention quickly fades. They also experience difficulty progressing to higher-order cognitive skills such as applying, analyzing, evaluating, and even creating, which are necessary to develop soft skills, such as critical thinking, in the care profession.

Nurse-led intervention to improve oral mucosal health of intubated patients in the intensive care unit: A prospective study.

Background: This prospective study aimed to explore the effectiveness of an oral care intervention with Tegaderm on the oral mucosal health of intubated patients.

Methods: A total of 70 intubated patients were included and randomly assigned to 1 of 3 groups, clean water brushing teeth (n = 23), brushing teeth combined with mouthwash (BTM) (n = 23), and brushing teeth combined with mouthwash and Tegaderm (BTMT) (n = 24). The Oral Mucositis Assessment Scale (OMAS) was applied to evaluate the patient's oral mucosal health before and after oral care intervention.

Self-Supervised Learning-Based General Laboratory Progress Pretrained Model for Cardiovascular Event Detection.

Objective: Leveraging patient data through machine learning techniques in disease care offers a multitude of substantial benefits. Nonetheless, the inherent nature of patient data poses several challenges. Prevalent cases amass substantial longitudinal data owing to their patient volume and consistent follow-ups, however, longitudinal laboratory data are renowned for their irregularity, temporality, absenteeism, and sparsity; In contrast, recruitment for rare or specific cases is often constrained due to their limited patient size and episodic observations.

Undergraduate nurses' reflections on visual thinking learning to construct inductive reasoning through situated patient pictures: A mixed-method study.

Background/objective: Deductive logic has often been used to develop critical thinking. However, inductive logical thinking, essential to care decision-making, has yet to be emphasized. This study aimed to explore visual thinking learning among undergraduate nursing students by asking them to draw situated patient pictures in order to integrate theoretical knowledge and promote inductive logical thinking.

Professional Accountability of Caring for Patients with COVID-19: A Phenomenographic Study.

The purpose of this study was to explore nurses' care experiences for COVID-19 patients during the pandemic in Taiwan. The qualitative approach of phenomenography was used. Thirty-four nurses were recruited from two assigned hospitals in which COVID-19 patients were treated in Taiwan from July to May 2021.

Identifying 5 Mutation in Aldosterone-Producing Adenoma Patients With Baseline Characteristics Using Machine Learning Technology.

Background: Primary aldosteronism is characterized by inappropriate aldosterone production, and unilateral aldosterone-producing adenoma (uPA) is a common type of PA. 5 mutation is a protective factor in uPA; however, there is no preoperative approach to detect 5 mutation in patients with uPA.

Objectives: This study aimed to provide a personalized surgical recommendation that enables more confidence in advising patients to pursue surgical treatment.

Clinical Instructors' Perspectives on the Assessment of Clinical Knowledge of Undergraduate Nursing Students: A Descriptive Phenomenological Approach.

This study aimed to determine clinical instructors' perceptions of the assessments used to evaluate the clinical knowledge of undergraduate nursing students. This study uses a descriptive phenomenological approach. Purposive sampling was used to recruit sixteen clinical instructors for semi-structured interviews between August and December 2019.

Experiences of oncology healthcare personnel in international medical service quality: a phenomenological study.

Background: With the globalization of medical services on the rise, Asia has ascended to a destination of choice for its high-quality medical services at very reasonable rates. Monitoring the quality of the international medical industry is vital to maintain service demand. The experiences of healthcare personnel (HCP) involved in international medical services (IMS) regarding the provision of services to international cancer patients have not yet been discussed.

An Exploration of Psychological Resilience among Undergraduate Nursing Students Undertaking an Adult Nursing Virtual Practicum during the Coronavirus Pandemic in Taiwan: A Qualitative Study.

This qualitative study aimed to explore the psychological resilience of undergraduate nursing students partaking in a virtual practicum during the coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) in Taiwan. The virtual practicum, a form of online learning, creates challenges compared to the traditional teaching-learning experience of an actual clinical placement. Exploring how students overcome learning difficulties and build resilience is necessary for a new learning environment or for future online learning.

Using a Motivational Paradigm to Develop an Exercise Program for Nurses with High Risk of Metabolic Syndrome.

Nurses are frontline care providers whose health is vital to providing good quality of care to patients. The purpose of this study was to develop an exercise program for high-risk metabolic syndrome nurses based on the transtheoretical model. The transtheoretical model was used in this study due to its popular use in exercise behavior change and it can clearly identify the stage of exercise so as to plan an effective program to promote health.

Family Caregivers' Experiences of Preventing Harm to Older People during Hospitalization: A Phenomenographic Study.

Hospital admission is associated with a high risk of harm, particularly for older people, and family members play a critical role in providing care. The aim of this study was to explore family caregivers' experiences in preventing harm to older people during hospitalization. The phenomenographic approach was applied.

Risk of cognitive impairment in men with advanced prostate cancer treated with NHAs: A systematic review and network meta-analysis.

Novel hormonal agents (NHAs) have significantly improved outcomes in men with advanced prostate cancer. However, it remains unclear whether NHAs are associated with subsequent cognitive impairment. Thus, we sought to perform a network meta-analysis to compare the risk of cognitive impairment across NHA types.

Effectiveness of the use of concept maps and simulated cases as a teaching-learning strategy in enhancing the learning confidence of baccalaureate nursing students: A qualitative approach.

Background: Didactic lectures and exam-oriented learning can lead to students becoming passive learners who rely on rote memory. This learning style negatively impacts their ability to cultivate the core nursing values and critical thinking.

Objectives: This study aimed to investigate the impact of a concept mapping teaching-learning strategy on undergraduate nursing students' ability to integrate theoretical biosciences knowledge into care practice and on their skills in critical thinking and teamwork.

Exploring the experience of reflective writing among Taiwanese undergraduate nursing students: A qualitative study.

Background: Reflective learning plays an important role in students' professional and personal development. However, some nursing curricula provide insufficient opportunity for students to understand how to reflect and what reflection is.

Purpose: The study aimed to explore baccalaureate nursing students' experiences of reflective writing.

GRK3 as a Prognosis Biomarker in Gastric Cancer.

Globally, gastric cancer is ranked 4th and 3rd in terms of incidence and mortality rate among all cancer types. This study aimed to examine the relationship between G protein-coupled receptor kinase 3 (GRK3) and gastric cancer prognosis and investigate the role of GRK3 in gastric cancer carcinogenesis. GRK3 level in gastric tissues and cells were determined using immunohistochemistry and immunoblotting.

Effect of implementing decision support to activate a rapid response system by automated screening of verified vital sign data: A retrospective database study.

Aim: Activating a rapid response system (RRS) at general wards requires memorizing trigger criteria, identifying deterioration, and timely notification of abnormalities. We aimed to assess the effect of decision support (DS)-linked RRS activation on management and outcomes.

Methods: We retrospectively analyzed general ward RRS activation cases from 2013 to 2017 and the incidence of cardiopulmonary resuscitations (CPR) from 2013 to 2020.

Predicting the Travel Distance of Patients to Access Healthcare Using Deep Neural Networks.

Objective: Improving geographical access remains a key issue in determining the sufficiency of regional medical resources during health policy design. However, patient choices can be the result of the complex interactivity of various factors. The aim of this study is to propose a deep neural network approach to model the complex decision of patient choice in travel distance to access care, which is an important indicator for policymaking in allocating resources.

Role transition of newly graduated nurses: a qualitative study.

Background: Newly Graduated Nurses in different socio-cultural contexts confront dissimilar situations and influences on role transfer. It is important to understand how newly graduated nurses reconstruct their own professional concept of clinical nurses.

Objectives: This study aimed to explore how Taiwanese newly graduated nurses perceived their new role and the process through which they transition into the professional role.

Benchmarking of eight recurrent neural network variants for breath phase and adventitious sound detection on a self-developed open-access lung sound database-HF_Lung_V1.

A reliable, remote, and continuous real-time respiratory sound monitor with automated respiratory sound analysis ability is urgently required in many clinical scenarios-such as in monitoring disease progression of coronavirus disease 2019-to replace conventional auscultation with a handheld stethoscope. However, a robust computerized respiratory sound analysis algorithm for breath phase detection and adventitious sound detection at the recording level has not yet been validated in practical applications. In this study, we developed a lung sound database (HF_Lung_V1) comprising 9,765 audio files of lung sounds (duration of 15 s each), 34,095 inhalation labels, 18,349 exhalation labels, 13,883 continuous adventitious sound (CAS) labels (comprising 8,457 wheeze labels, 686 stridor labels, and 4,740 rhonchus labels), and 15,606 discontinuous adventitious sound labels (all crackles).

Standard risk assessment forms help reduce preventable harm in older adult inpatients: A retrospective chart review study.

Aims: To examine nurse documentation of assessments using standard risk assessment forms in older inpatients, and to determine the value of such assessment.

Design: Cross-sectional retrospective chart review.

Methods: This retrospective review of risk evaluation documentation in patients' medical records focused on skin, continence, medical complications, nutrition, cognition, mobility, medications and pain.

Undergraduate nursing student academic resilience during medical surgical clinical practicum: A constructivist analysis of Taiwanese experience.

Background: Nursing students often experience a reality shock in the course of their practicums that can significantly impact their studies.

Purpose: This study aimed to explore the academic resilience of undergraduate nursing students during their Adulting Nursing practicums and identify protective factors to mitigate their impact.

Methods: The constructivist grounded theory approach enabled us to explore nursing students' academic resilience in their practicums.

How Emergency Nurses Develop Resilience in the Context of Workplace Violence: A Grounded Theory Study.

Purpose: To understand how emergency nurses develop resilience in the context of workplace violence.

Design: This study employed grounded theory methodology. Thirty nurses from three hospital emergency departments in Taiwan were interviewed between August and December 2018.

Enhancing reflection on medical and surgical nursing among nursing students: A participatory action research study.

Background: Medical and Surgical Nursing (MSN) is a core course in baccalaureate nursing programs that requires active and effective teaching and learning strategies to enhance students' engagement.

Objective: To develop and implement an effective learning process for students undertaking the MSN course.

Design: This participatory action research study used reflection as the center of action in the cycle of planning, acting, observing and reflecting and re-planning.

An enjoyable involvement: A qualitative study of short-term study abroad for nursing students.

This study aimed to explore the experiences of nursing students who have undertaken a short course in an overseas educational system to generate theoretical understanding of the experience of studying abroad. Learning in the health professions needs to considered in the context of globalization as a way of sharing knowledge and taking responsibility as world citizens. Studying abroad provides students with an opportunity to develop global health care competencies.