How Nursing Home Nurses Who Care for Residents With Dementia Experience the Moral Distress? A Phenomenography Study.

Aim: Exploring how nursing home nurses who care for residents with dementia experience moral distress.

Design: A qualitative phenomenography design.

Methods: Phenomenography was used in this qualitative study.

Novice Perioperative Nurses' Perceptions of Nursing Competence and Strategies Used to Enhance Competence: A Phenomenographic Study.

The development of novice perioperative nurse competence is vital for high-quality care in demanding, specialized health care environments. We used a qualitative phenomenographic approach to explore novice perioperative nurses' perceptions of competence and strategies to enhance it. We interviewed 10 novice nurses who worked in a Korean university hospital.

How Nursing Home Professionals Frame the Perspective on Residents' Safety Management: A Q-Methodology Approach.

Aim: To identify a frame of reference for resident safety management in nursing homes.

Design: Q-methodology.

Methods: This study was conducted using Q-methodology to identify shared perspectives about resident safety management among nursing home professionals.

Exploring Rapport Formation Between Nurses and End-of-Life Patients: A Meta-ethnographic Synthesis.

This study aims to deepen the understanding of rapport formation between nurses and end-of-life patients by synthesizing existing qualitative research. Using meta-ethnography, this research integrates findings from various studies to explore the essence and process of rapport formation from nurses' perspectives. A comprehensive search across MEDLINE, EMBASE, CINAHL, and Web of Science databases in August 2024 identified 13 relevant studies.

How the Content of Interprofessional Safety Management Education Can Be Structured Through the Perception of Nursing Home Practitioners: A Mixed Methods Design.

Aim: This study aimed to assess perceptions of safety management, with a particular focus on interprofessional influences, to determine priorities for safety management training needs and to explore target areas for strengthening the capacity of nursing home practitioners.

Design: A mixed methods design was used.

Methods: A qualitative-driven mixed methods design was employed in two phases.

The development and effects of a social constructivist approach in an interprofessional discomfort care online education program.

Background: The importance of interprofessional education (IPE) programs is increasing due to the complexity and multidimensional aspects of discomfort in long-term care facilities (LTCFs). The social constructivist approach, which is helpful in IPE, has received considerable attention in education. This study aimed to develop and identify the effects of an interprofessional discomfort management online education program using a social constructivist approach.

Priority analysis of educational needs for new nurses in the intensive care unit: A cross-sectional study.

Background: New intensive care unit (ICU) nurses often experience stress because of concerns about potentially harming their patients in a work environment that demands the rapid development of several skills in a limited training period.

Aim: This study aimed to investigate the prioritisation of educational needs within adult ICUs, focusing on how new nurses evaluate their current knowledge and perceive the most critical competencies.

Study Design: A cross-sectional study was conducted among a convenience sample of 102 new ICU nurses in general and tertiary hospitals in South Korea.

How do nurses advocate for the remaining time of nursing home residents? A critical discourse analysis.

Introduction: Due to the global aging trend, the number of older people who will spend the last years of their lives in nursing homes is increasing. However, nursing homes have long confronted negative social and public discourses, including stigmas on dementia and life in such facilities. Nevertheless, the remaining time of residents with dementia holds significance, for them and their families, as they seek respect and the ability to make meaningful end-of-life decisions.

Ways of interdisciplinary approaches to advocating for nursing home residents with dementia.

Aim: To explore how nursing home staff advocate for residents with dementia.

Design: Phenomenographic qualitative research.

Methods: Twenty nursing home staff from four disciplines (six nurses, four physical therapists, five social workers and five care workers) were purposively recruited from three different nursing homes.

Nurses' Shared Subjectivity on Person-Centered Care for Behavioral and Psychological Symptoms of Dementia in Nursing Homes.

Background: Person-centered care (PCC), an approach to healthcare that focuses on the individual needs, preferences, and values of patients, is particularly important in the context of caring for residents of nursing homes (NHs) with the behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia (BPSD). However, implementing PCC in NHs varies widely due to individual staff, NH environment, and country factors, leading to heterogeneity in person-centered approaches.

Purpose: This study was designed to explore and gain insight into the shared subjective perspectives of nurses on providing PCC to manage BPSD in NHs in order to elicit a deeper understanding of how nurses interpret and approach the provision of PCC.

Care of patients undergoing withdrawal of life-sustaining treatments: an ICU nurse perspective.

Background: Intensive care unit (ICU) nurses working in South Korea report experiencing uncertainty about how to care for patients undergoing withdrawal of life-sustaining treatments (WLT). A lack of consensus on care guidelines for patients with WLT contributes to uncertainty, ambiguity, and confusion on how to act appropriately within current law and social and ethical norms. To date, little has been discussed or described about how ICU nurses construct meaning about their roles in caring for dying patients in the context of wider social issues about end-of-life care and how this meaning interacts with the ICU system structure and national law.

How do nursing home nurses conceptualize the management of behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia? A phenomenographic study.

The behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia (BPSD) present complex challenges for nursing home (NH) nurses, leading to confusion and difficulties in providing effective care. To address these issues, investigating how NH nurses perceive and manage the BPSD is crucial since it can lead to the development of tailored and effective care plans. This study therefore aimed to explore the ways in which NH nurses approach the management of the BPSD by using phenomenography.

How nursing students learn infection control education through undergraduate nursing programs: a phenomenographic research study.

Background: Competency in infection control is crucial for implementing nursing best practices to ensure patient safety. However, research is lacking on the infection control education received by nursing students prior to entering clinical settings as nurses. This study aimed to explore how nursing students conceptualize infection control care in undergraduate nursing programs.

How experienced wound care nurses conceptualize what to do in pressure injury management.

Background: Conceptual understanding of the perceptions that wound care nurses use to determine how to manage pressure injuries may provide information for improving their pressure injury care competency. The aim of this study is to explore and describe the way wound care nurses experience and perceive pressure injury management.

Methods: A qualitative, phenomenographic approach, a method designed to explore the different ways in which people comprehend a phenomenon and develop a practical knowledge-based framework, was used in this study.

Capturing key function-focused care problems, nursing diagnoses, and interventions for nursing home patients using a web-based case management system.

Purpose: The aim of this study is to identify the key functional care problems, NANDA-I nursing diagnoses, and intervention plans related to function-focused care (FFC) using a web-based case management system for patients who present different cognitive status.

Methods: This study employed a retrospective descriptive research design. Data were obtained from system records on patients after the research team trained the case management system at a nursing home in Dangjin in South Chungcheong Province, South Korea.

Perspective of Emergency Pediatric Nurses Triaging Pediatric Patients in the Emergency Department: A Phenomenographic Study.

Introduction: Triage, a process to determine illness severity, is implemented by emergency nurses to prioritize treatment and provide care for a maximum number of patients using limited resources. The competency of emergency nurses and a highly reliable triage are crucial for the provision of emergency care. Pediatric patients are different from adult patients in certain aspects, such as growth-phase characteristics, communication ability, and the onset of disease; these aspects often pose challenges during their primary triage.

Ways that nursing home nursing staff build resilience: a phenomenographic approach.

Background: Resilience has been studied as an effective concept in nursing that acts as a protective factor which aids in overcoming difficult situations and related mental problems. With the recent increase in demand for nursing homes, nursing home nursing staff are facing a variety of stresses and psychological burdens. Improving resilience has been suggested as one way to deal with the difficulties, such as stress, exhaustion, and burnout, that nursing home nursing staff are experiencing.

An e-Problem-Based Learning Program for Infection Control in Nursing Homes: A Quasi-Experimental Study.

Infection is a significant factor adversely affecting the health of nursing home (NH) residents, potentially even leading to death. Therefore, educating NH staff to think critically is necessary to prevent and control infection. In this study, we developed an electronic problem-based learning (e-PBL) program using the Network-Based Instructional System Design model to enhance South Korean NH staff's critical thinking competencies; subsequently, its effectiveness was evaluated.

Exploring carer resilience in the context of dementia: a meta-synthesis.

Aims: The aim of this literature review is to integrate the results of qualitative research on the resilience experiences of family carers of people with dementia (PWD).

Design: A qualitative meta-synthesis study was conducted.

Methods: The meta-ethnography method of Noblit and Hare (1988) was used.

For the interprofessional management of the discomfort of long-term care facility residents with dementia.

Educating interprofessional practitioners in long-term care facilities (LTCFs) is critical for managing discomfort of residents with dementia, which is often unnoticed and undertreated. A framework of education on discomfort management that is applicable in various environments in different facilities is necessary. We developed a preliminary framework to educate interprofessional practitioners on discomfort management of dementia residents in LTCFs.

The resilience of nursing staffs in nursing homes: concept development applying a hybrid model.

Background: The resilience of nursing home (NH) nursing staff is emphasized to improve the quality of care provided, but the concept has not been clearly defined. By composing such a definition through concept development, a basis for active research in the future can be established.

Aim: To identify the definition and conceptual characteristics of the concept of resilience of NH nursing staffs.

How do wound care nurses structure the subjective frame on palliative wound care? A Q-methodology approach.

Background: Palliative wound care is important for stability in terminal care. It addresses both the physical and psychological needs of patients and facilitates other aspects of terminal care. Appropriate competencies of nurses regarding palliative wound care can improve patient outcomes and raise their quality of life.

Exploring nurse perceptions and experiences of resilience: a meta-synthesis study.

Aim: To understand nurse resilience by integrating the qualitative research results on nurses' resilience-related experiences.

Methods: We applied the seven steps of the meta-ethnographic process by Noblit and Hare (1988). Five databases (PubMed, EMBASE, Web of Science, CINAHL and PsycINFO) were used to search for relevant studies published from January 2011 to September 2021.

Exploring interprofessional communication during nursing home emergencies using the SBAR framework.

Communication breakdowns during emergencies threaten patient safety. In nursing homes (NHs) vulnerable residents may experience emergencies at any time. Concerns over clinical complexity and diverse communication styles among interprofessional practitioners heighten the need for standardized methods to improve practitioners' communication skills.