The experience of surrogate decision-making and deciphering critically ill patient values: A qualitative study.

Background: Surrogate decision-makers (SDMs) who make decisions for critically ill patients often face great challenges. Although shared decision-making has been advocated, its implementation has been less than satisfactory.

Aim: To explore the experience of the surrogate decision-making process and determine how SDMs understand the values and preferences of critically ill patients.

Supportive interventions for preparation for future care of community-dwelling older adults: A scoping review.

Aim: To identify and summarize the content and effectiveness of existing supportive interventions for preparation for future care of community-dwelling older adults.

Design: A scoping review.

Data Sources: PubMed, Embase, Scopus, Web of Science, Wanfang, China National Knowledge Infrastructure and Chinese medical journal databases were used to identify studies alongside a search for grey literature, from inception to December 1, 2023.

Impact of knowledge, attitudes and self-reported practices of nurses on early mobilization of mechanically ventilated patients in the ICU.

Background: Many ICUs worldwide are striving to integrate early mobilization as part of critical care rehabilitation. However, ICU nurses, who are essential contributors to the early mobilization of critically ill patients, still lack comprehensive surveys assessing their knowledge, beliefs, and practices regarding the early mobilization of mechanically ventilated patients.

Aim: To analyse the knowledge, attitudes, and practices of intensive care unit (ICU) nurses regarding the early mobilization of mechanically ventilated patients and to explore the effects of these practices.

Dynamic Nomogram for Subsyndromal Delirium in Adult Intensive Care Unit: A Prospective Cohort Study.

Purpose: To develop a dynamic nomogram of subsyndromal delirium (SSD) in intensive care unit (ICU) patients and internally validate its efficacy in predicting SSD.

Patients And Methods: Patients who met the inclusion and exclusion criteria in the ICU of a tertiary hospital in Zhejiang from September 2021 to June 2022 were selected as the research objects. The patient data were randomly divided into the training set and validation set according to the ratio of 7:3.

Family members' perceptions of surrogate decision-making in the intensive care unit: A systematic review.

Background: A better understanding of the perceptions of family members in making surrogate decisions for loved ones during intensive care is needed to inform the development of targeted supportive interventions.

Objective: To examine and synthesize qualitative data on family members' perceptions of surrogate decision-making in the intensive care unit.

Design: We conducted a systematic review and qualitative data synthesis.

Association Between Patient Activation and Medication Adherence in Patients With Stroke: A Cross-Sectional Study.

Medication adherence is key to secondary prevention in patients with stroke. Poor medication adherence can lead to recurrence, disability, or even death in stroke survivors. Patient activation is associated with increased healthy behaviors and improved clinical outcomes in many chronic diseases.

The mediating role of regulatory emotional self-efficacy on negative emotions during the COVID-19 pandemic: A cross-sectional study.

Nurses exposed to coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) are psychologically stressed. This study examines the characteristics and distribution of negative emotions among Chinese nurses during the COVID-19 pandemic and explores regulatory emotional self-efficacy (RESE) as the underlying mechanism in the relationship between nurses' personalities and negative emotions. A cross-sectional design with convenience sampling was utilized.