Role of health literacy profiles in fluid management of individuals receiving haemodialysis: A cross-sectional study.

Aims: To identify health literacy profiles in individuals receiving haemodialysis and to explore how these profiles interact with individuals' self-efficacy, engagement with traditional dietary habits, self-reported fluid restriction and relative-interdialytic weight gain.

Design: A cross-sectional study engaging nephrology departments from four hospitals in Guangdong Province, China.

Methods: A sample of 433 individuals receiving haemodialysis participated between December 2018 and July 2019.

Analysis of participation and performance of MOOC learners via latent class analysis: A retrospective study based on the data of a nursing MOOC from 2018 to 2022.

Background: Although massive open online courses have been widely used in nurse education, few studies have evaluated MOOC learner behavioral characteristics. Understanding MOOC learners' participation and performance parameters is helpful for further development and administration of this educational approach.

Objectives: To categorize nursing MOOC learners according to their different learning participation and to compare the differences in learning performance of different types of MOOC learners.

Predictors of Medication Adherence of Patients With Coronary Heart Disease After Percutaneous Coronary Intervention: A Structural Equation Modeling Based on the Extended Theory of Planned Behavior.

Background: The theory of planned behavior (TPB), combined with social support, forms the extended TPB, which has shown to predict adherence to health-related behavior effectively, but few studies have applied it to explain medication adherence in patients with coronary heart disease (CHD) after percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI).

Objectives: The aim of this study was to explore the factors associated with medication adherence and the underlying mechanisms based on the extended TPB among patients with CHD after PCI.

Methods: A cross-sectional descriptive study was conducted among patients with CHD after PCI in 2 major hospitals in Guangzhou, China.

The effects of using virtual patients on the history-taking ability of nursing interns: A non-randomized controlled study.

Objectives: The aim of this study was to examine the effects of the SYSU-NEP virtual patients (VPs) on the history-taking ability and self-efficacy of nursing interns.

Background: An easy to use, freely accessible and objective training software program on WeChat named Sun Yat-sen University Nursing Education Platform (SYSU-NEP) was developed to help nursing students improve their history-taking skills.

Design: This was a non-randomized controlled study.

Developing trends of initial nursing education in China from 2006 to 2017: A descriptive analysis based on national-level data.

Introduction: There is currently a global nurse shortage. Initial nursing education is the primary preparation for a robust nursing workforce that must be strengthened.

Objectives: To describe the developing trends of initial nursing education in China from 2006 to 2017 and to analyze related characteristics and issues.

Origin of the N-coordinated single-atom Ni sites in heterogeneous electrocatalysts for CO reduction reaction.

Heterogeneous Ni-N-C single-atom catalysts (SACs) have attracted great research interest regarding their capability in facilitating the CO reduction reaction (CORR), with CO accounting for the major product. However, the fundamental nature of their active Ni sites remains controversial, since the typically proposed pyridinic-type Ni configurations are inactive, display low selectivity, and/or possess an unfavorable formation energy. Herein, we present a constant-potential first-principles and microkinetic model to study the CORR at a solid-water interface, which shows that the electrode potential is crucial for governing CO activation.

Changes over 10 years in the nursing workforce in Guangdong province, China: Three-wave multisite surveys.

Aims: The study aimed to describe the changes in the nursing workforce in 2008-2018 in Guangdong province, China.

Background: A strong nursing workforce is important in the development of the health care system in China. However, whether the nursing workforce in China has improved is underexplored.

Influence of Substitutional Defects in ZIF-8 Membranes on Reverse Osmosis Desalination: A Molecular Dynamics Study.

In this study, molecular dynamics simulation is used to investigate the effects of water-based substitutional defects in zeolitic imidazolate frameworks (ZIF)-8 membranes on their reverse osmosis (RO) desalination performance. ZIF-8 unit cells containing up to three defect sites are used to construct the membranes. These substitutional defects can either be Zn defects or linker defects.

Validation of the Chinese version of the Care Evaluation Scale for measuring the quality of structure and process of end-of-life care from the perspective of bereaved family.

Background: Assessing the quality of structure and process of end-of-life care can help improve outcomes. There was currently no valid tool for this purpose in Mainland China. The aim of this study is to validate the Chinese version of the Care Evaluation Scale (CES).

Oxygen vacancy induced peroxymonosulfate activation by Mg-doped FeO composites for advanced oxidation of organic pollutants.

Oxygen vacancy engineering has emerged as an effective approach to improve the performance of catalysts for peroxymonosulfate (PMS) activation. Herein, we report a facile precipitation method followed by calcination to synthesize cost-effective and environmentally friendly magnesium-doped hematite (Mg/FeO) composites. Multiple characterization results reveal that the incorporation of Mg can significantly increase the oxygen vacancies and specific surface area of 5%Mg/FeO, leading to a significantly enhanced performance in degrading Rhodamine B (RhB) through PMS activation.

Psychometric properties of the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health Rehabilitation Set: a Rasch analysis.

The International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) Rehabilitation Set was proposed by the WHO ICF Research branch as a minimum standard for assessing and reporting functioning in a wide range of clinical settings. This study investigates the psychometric properties of ICF Rehabilitation Set using Rasch analysis. It was a multicenter, cross-sectional study involving 515 inpatients in the subacute or chronic phase of recovery from various health conditions selected by quota sampling (stratified by neurological, cardiopulmonary, musculoskeletal and other conditions).

Association of changes in nursing work environment, non-professional tasks, and nursing care left undone with nurse job outcomes and quality of care: A panel study.

Background: Strengthening quality of care without compromising nurse job outcomes by building a safer health care system is a common concern worldwide including in China. Most of the current evidence comes from cross-sectional studies conducted in western countries, which limits inferences of causality and generalization.

Objective: The objectives of this longitudinal study were to compare changes in quality of care, nurse job outcomes, nursing work environment, non-professional tasks, and nursing care left undone in acute hospitals in China between 2014 and 2018.

Health literacy as predictors of fluid management in people receiving hemodialysis in China: A structural equation modeling analysis.

Objectives: To explore the impact of health literacy (HL) on perceived benefits of fluid restriction (PBFR), self-reported fluid restriction (SRFR) and relative-interdialytic weight gain (R-IDWG) in people receiving hemodialysis (HD).

Methods: We conducted a cross-sectional study in two nephrology departments from two hospitals in Guangzhou, China (n = 226). The HL questionnaire, PBFR Subscale of Health Belief Model Constructs and Fluid Adherence Subscale of the HD Patients Therapy Adherence Scale were used.

Perceived Family Impact During Children's Hospitalization for Treatment of Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia: A Cross-sectional Study.

Background: Improved survival rates of acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) in children are often associated with repeated and prolonged hospitalization, creating an immensely stressful situation for the family.

Objective: The aims of this study were to assess perceived family impact and coping during the child's hospitalization for ALL treatment and identify potential predictors of perceived family impact.

Interventions/methods: A total of 212 families with children hospitalized participated.

Enhanced Oxygen Evolution Reaction Activity of a CoP@NC-FeP Composite Boosted by Interfaces Between a N-Doped Carbon Matrix and FeP Microspheres.

Constructing highly efficient and low-cost transition-metal-based electrocatalysts with a large number of interfaces to increase their active site densities constitutes a major advancement in the development of water-splitting technology. Herein, a bimetallic phosphide composite (CoP@NC-FeP) is successfully synthesized from a ferric hydroxyphosphate-zeolitic imidazolate framework hybrid precursor (FeHP-ZIF-67). Benefitting from morphology and composition regulations, the FeHP-ZIF-67 precursor is prepared by a room-temperature solution synthesis method, which exhibits an optimal morphology, where FeHP microspheres are coated with excess ZIF-67 nanoparticles.

Embedding Ultrafine Metal Oxide Nanoparticles in Monolayered Metal-Organic Framework Nanosheets Enables Efficient Electrocatalytic Oxygen Evolution.

The development of highly efficient electrocatalysts to reduce overpotentials is vital for accelerating the sluggish oxygen evolution reaction (OER) processes. Herein, we demonstrate ultrathin heterogeneous nanosheets as a promising OER electrocatalyst, which are composed of ultrafine CoFeO nanoparticles and a monolayered CoN-based metal-organic framework (MOF) matrix. The embedding of such inorganic nanoparticles in the MOF lattice creates metal Co sites located at the CoFeO/MOF interfaces.

The impact of work environment on workplace violence, burnout and work attitudes for hospital nurses: A structural equation modelling analysis.

Aim: We aimed to test a model examining the direct and indirect effects of the work environment on workplace violence, nurse burnout and work attitudes of Chinese hospital nurses.

Background: Work environment is a key factor related to nurses' work attitudes. There has been limited information about how the work environment influences nurses' work attitudes.

Associations of nurse education level and nurse staffing with patient experiences of hospital care: A cross sectional study in China.

Strengthening the nursing workforce is core to health system reform in China. Patient experiences of hospital care have been recognized as important in this endeavor. Studies exploring the relationships between nursing workforce and patient experiences of hospital care, however, are scarce.

The relationship of workplace violence and nurse outcomes: Gender difference study on a propensity score matched sample.

Aims: To investigate workplace violence and nurse outcomes by comparing gender differences.

Design: A secondary analysis of cross-sectional survey data.

Methods: Workplace violence was measured by four items from the International Hospital Outcome Study.

Workplace violence against nurses, job satisfaction, burnout, and patient safety in Chinese hospitals.

Background: Most nurses have experienced some form of workplace violence, which could lead to physical or psychological harm and reduced job performance. Previous studies have examined the effects of workplace violence on nurses' job satisfaction and patient safety, but there have been very few examinations of whether workplace violence affects patient safety through nurse job satisfaction and burnout.

Purpose: To investigate the relationships among workplace violence, nurse outcomes and patient safety.

Validation of the Chinese Version of the Good Death Inventory for Evaluating End-of-Life Care From the Perspective of the Bereaved Family.

Context: It is essential to evaluate good death of patients with cancer. However, currently, there is no validated measurement tool available in Mainland China.

Objectives: To validate the Chinese version of the Good Death Inventory (GDI).

Rationing of Nursing Care and Its Relationship with Nurse Staffing and Patient Outcomes: The Mediation Effect Tested by Structural Equation Modeling.

: The purpose of this study is to test the mediation effect of rationing of nursing care (RONC) and the relationship this has between nurse staffing and patient outcomes. : The analytic sample included 7802 nurse surveys and 5430 patient surveys. Three patient outcome indicators, nurse staffing, RONC, and confounding factors were considered in the model pathways.

Relationship Between Work Environments, Nurse Outcomes, and Quality of Care in ICUs: Mediating Role of Nursing Care Left Undone.

Background: The mechanism of how work environments affect nurse outcomes and quality of care has not been studied in intensive care unit (ICU) settings.

Purpose: The purpose was to investigate the effects of work environment on nurse outcomes and quality of care in ICUs, through the mediating effects of nursing care left undone.

Methods: This study used survey data from 459 nurses from 22 ICUs in 22 hospitals in China.

Unmet Family Needs Concerning Healthcare Services in the Setting of Childhood Hospitalization for Cancer Treatment in Mainland China: A Qualitative Study.

Purpose: The focus of this paper is to identify the unmet family needs during children's hospitalization for cancer treatment.

Design And Methods: Qualitative interviews were carried out with five fathers and fourteen mothers purposively sampled from four pediatric oncology departments in Mainland China from September 2013 to March 2014. Audiotaped interviews were transcribed verbatim, and data in transcripts were coded and analyzed by qualitative content analysis.

Hospital nursing organizational factors, nursing care left undone, and nurse burnout as predictors of patient safety: A structural equation modeling analysis.

Background: Promotion of patient safety is among the most important goals and challenges of healthcare systems worldwide in countries including China. Donabedian's Structure-Process-Outcome model implies that patient safety is affected by hospital nursing organizational factors and nursing care process. However, studies are imperative for a clear understanding about the mechanisms by which patient safety is affected to guide practice.