Blueprint of ethics content in undergraduate education: A workshop-research study.

Background: Ethics is a fundamental component of nursing education to increase students' moral competence and moral reasoning abilities. However, the core ethics content that should be included in undergraduate education has not been established to date at the international level.

Aim: To identify the core contents required in formal undergraduate education to ensure morally competent nurses.

Individualized Care in Nursing Homes Before and After the COVID-19 Pandemic.

: Individualizing care is the essence of nursing, and its benefits have been extensively proven in older people. The changes arisen during the COVID-19 pandemic may have affected it. The aim of this study is to analyze the changes produced in the perceptions about the individualization of care, quality of life, and care environment of elderly people living in long-term care centers before and after the pandemic.

Excellent Nursing Leadership Towards Magnet Culture Among Nurse Leaders: An Interview Study.

Aims: This study describes nurse leaders' experiences of nursing leadership in Finland towards Magnet hospital culture.

Design: This is a qualitative descriptive study.

Methods: The data from nurse leaders (n = 9) were collected in face-to-face or online interviews in June and August 2023 in Finland and analysed using an inductive content analysis approach.

Interventions Intended to Improve the Well-Being at Work of Nurses Working in Care Settings for Older People-A Systematic Review.

Introduction: Nurses' well-being at work (WAW) is important for overall health care outcomes. Nurses often navigate complex roles, contending with time constraints, ethical challenges and societal undervaluation, underscoring the necessity of addressing their WAW.

Methods: The aim of this systematic review was to analyse the interventions that potentially improve nurses' WAW in care settings for older people.

How nurses' moral competence can be supported: Findings from international focus groups with professionals.

Aim: To describe how nurses' moral competence can be supported from the perspective of nurses, nurse managers, researchers, educators, and nursing students.

Background: Moral competence is the capacity or ability of nurses to recognise one's own emotions of what is right or wrong, to reflect on these emotions, to make decisions, and to act in ways that bring the highest level of benefit to patients. Moral competence is part of professional competence.

Nurses' justifications for morally courageous acts in ethical conflicts: A narrative inquiry.

Moral courage is defined as the courage to act in ethical conflicts based on individual or professional values despite the personal risks involved. Nurses justify their decisions to act morally courageously as part of their ethical decision-making. To describe registered nurses' justifications for acting morally courageously, or not, in ethical conflicts where they needed moral courage.

Key professional stakeholders roles in promoting older people's autonomy in residential care.

Background: Older people's autonomy is an ethical and legal principle in everyday residential care, but there is a lack of clarity about the roles and responsibilities of the key professional stakeholder groups involved.

Research Objectives: This study aimed to identify and define the roles and responsibilities of the key professional stakeholder groups involved in promoting older people's autonomy in residential care settings.

Research Design: We used a Delphi method with two iterative rounds of online group discussions and collected data from experts in older people's care in Finland in summer 2020.

Ethics in undergraduate nursing degrees: An international comparative education study.

Background: Ensuring morally competent nurses depends on many factors, such as environmental, social, political, and cultural. However, several inadequacies in nursing education have been documented, and no common framework has been established for how nursing ethics should be taught in undergraduate education.

Research Questions: What are the different approaches across nursing programmes established in teaching ethics? What are the main similarities and differences across programmes facilitating a common understanding in developing a curriculum capable of preparing a morally competent nurse?

Research Design: International comparative education study in five steps: (1) formulating the initial question; (2) defining the units of comparison; (3) determining the variables of comparison; (4) describing the findings; (5) interpreting the findings.

Reporting and managing ethical issues in intensive care using the critical incident reporting system.

Background: Intensive care nurses frequently encounter ethical issues with potentially severe consequences for nurses, patients, and next of kin. Therefore, ethical issues in intensive care units (ICU) should be recognized and managed.

Research Objectives: To analyze ethical issues reported by intensive care nurses and how reported issues were managed within the organization using register data from the HaiPro critical incident reporting system (CIRS), and to explore the suitability of this system for reporting and managing ethical issues.

Association of Foot Health and Lower Extremity Function in Older People with Rheumatoid Arthritis: A Cross-Sectional Study.

Introduction: Foot health and lower extremity function are important in older people with rheumatoid arthritis (RA), as they maintain and promote these individuals' independent living and functional health. RA is a long-term inflammatory health condition that alters foot structure and function. Relatively little is known about the association between foot health and lower extremity function in older people with RA.

Patient-reported outcome measures for the assessment of stress in neurological patients: An integrative review.

Background: Patient stress is often overlooked in the care of patients with neurological problems. Nursing theorists have previously heralded stress assessment through conceptual clarification, while clinical nurses in the health care system hold an ideal position for implementation of assessment and coordination of support. Integrated with a hospital assessment and support scheme, recognition of stress as a target of systematic assessment can lead to improved clinical outcomes.

Perceptions of foot health services from the perspective of patients with rheumatoid arthritis in Finland.

Background: Foot health services for people with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) are an important part of their comprehensive care. However, little is known about the perceptions of people with RA have about foot health services. This study aimed to explore how people with RA perceive foot health services.

Factors contributing to the promotion of moral competence in nursing.

Ethics is a foundational competency in healthcare inherent in everyday nursing practice. Therefore, the promotion of qualified nurses' and nursing students' moral competence is essential to ensure ethically high-quality and sustainable healthcare. The aim of this integrative literature review is to identify the factors contributing to the promotion of qualified nurses' and nursing students' moral competence.

Improved professional competencies and leadership in PhD-prepared nurses and doctoral students after participating in the cross-national and web-based Nurse-Lead program.

Background: Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)-prepared nurses are expected to exercise leadership in their various roles. Therefore, European nurse scholars developed a cross-national web-based Nursing Leadership and Mentoring Educational (Nurse-Lead) program.

Purpose: To evaluate changes in leadership practices, professional and research competencies as well as career development of PhD-prepared nurses and doctoral nursing students after participation in the Nurse-Lead program.

Effectiveness of an educational intervention to increase professional nurses' person-centred care competence in long-term care of older people-Quasi-experimental study.

Background: Based on previous evidence person-centred care (PCC) as a quality indicator is important in long-term care (LTC) settings for older people. Effective ways to increase nurses' person-centred care competence are missing.

Aim: To evaluate the effectiveness of a continuing education (CE) intervention named 'Person First-Please' (PFP) for improving nurses' PPC competence and its connection to PPC climate.

Quality of interaction between the nursing personnel and the informal caregivers of people with memory disorders: A systematic review and metasummary of qualitative studies.

Aim: To explore the factors that affect the quality of interactions between nursing personnel and the informal caregivers of people with memory disorders.

Design: Systematic review and metasummary of qualitative empirical research.

Methods: The literature search targeted studies concerning the professional care interactions between nursing personnel and the informal caregivers of people with progressive memory disorders.

Promoting activity and mobility in long-term care environments: A photo-elicitation study with older adults and nurses.

Aim(s): The aim of this research study is to collaboratively generate insights in the current institutional long-term care environment for activity and mobility of older adults, and of solutions that could be used to increase the activity and improve the mobility of the older adults.

Design: This research constitutes a qualitative study with a critical approach.

Methods: Data were collected using photo-elicitation in four long-term care units in Finland during the spring of 2022.

Career development of doctorally prepared nurses.

Aim: To integrate research literature regarding careers, career development and factors influencing the career development of doctorally prepared nurses.

Design: An integrative review.

Data Sources: Medline, CINAHL and Embase were searched in June 2022 without time restrictions.

Exploring unfinished nursing care among nursing students: a discussion paper.

Background: In line with the impetus traceable among the nursing staff, studies regarding the perception of Unfinished Care among students have increased in recent years as also recommended by some policy documents in the consideration that, as future members of the staff, they are expected to raise concerns about failures in the standards of care. However, no discussion of their methodological requirements has been provided to date. The aim of this study is to debate Unfinished Care explorations among nursing students and developing recommendations.

The experiences of doctorally prepared nurses and doctoral nursing students with being mentored in the Nurse-Lead programme: A focus group study.

Aim: to explore experiences of being mentored and the contribution of the mentoring to leadership and professional development of doctorally prepared nurses and doctoral nursing students participating in the Nurse-Lead programme.

Background: Mentoring is considered important for career development of academic nurses. Doctorally prepared nurses need a wide range of professional competences to develop sustainable careers.

Self-reported competence level of occupational health care professionals in work ability risk management and analysis.

Background: The management and analysis of work ability risks is important to support well-being at work and requires multidimensional competence. Competence evaluation in Occupational Health Care professionals' (OHCP) practice is essential for their professional development and promotion of quality of care.

Objective: To describe OHCPs' self-reported competence level to manage and analyze work ability risks.