Exploring Research Trends on Digital Health in Nursing Science in Korea: A Topic Modeling Approach.

Digital health technology is utilized in contemporary nursing practice and education. This review explored the scope of digital health applications and major trends in nursing research involving digital health in Korea using topic modeling. Our analysis of data using the Latent Dirichlet Allocation model identified four distinct research topics: nursing education using digital technologies (35.

Integration of visual thinking strategies to undergraduate health assessment course: A mixed-method feasibility study.

Background: The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated demands for a shift from traditional face-to-face learning to online learning. Visual Thinking Strategies (VTS) is an inquiry-based teaching method using various visual artworks to improve critical thinking and interpersonal skills. VTS has been studied in health professional education mostly in art gallery settings.

"Struggling to Accept the New Breast as Part of My Body" - The Challenge of Immediate Breast Reconstruction in Women With Breast Cancer.

Background: Women have difficulties in making decisions and experiences an unexpectedly long recovery period after immediate breast reconstruction. There are still many limitations in understanding the overall changes in life experienced by women with breast cancer before and after immediate breast reconstruction.

Objective: This study aimed to explore the challenges experienced by women with breast cancer undergoing immediate breast reconstruction and how they coped with these problems.

Association between Sleep Problems and Sedentary Behaviors during Work among Korean Workers.

Background: We aimed to identify the association between sleep problems and sedentary behaviors during work among Korean workers.

Methods: We employed a cross-sectional survey, and analyzed data from the 5 Korean Working Conditions Survey, conducted in 2017. The participants were 50,205 workers aged 15 years and above.

Symptom clusters in childhood cancer survivors in Korea: A latent class analysis.

Objective: To identify the occurrence of late symptom effects among childhood cancer survivors (CCS), generate subgroups using a latent class analysis and determine whether the subgroups differ in demographic and health-related characteristics and health-promoting lifestyle.

Methods: A cross-sectional survey was conducted on 130 adult CCS in Korea. The Memorial Symptom Assessment Scale was used to perform a latent class analysis based on symptom occurrence to generate subgroups.

Association between workplace bullying and burnout, professional quality of life, and turnover intention among clinical nurses.

Workplace bullying experienced by clinical nurses is associated with burnout, a factor that threatens the quality of nursing care and patient safety. This study examined the association of workplace bullying with burnout, professional quality of life, and turnover intention among clinical nurses. A descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted using a structured questionnaire.

The novel high-frequency variant of TRPV3 p.A628T in East Asians showing faster sensitization in response to chemical agonists.

TRPV3, a member of the thermosensitive Ca-permeable TRPV channel subfamily expressed in skin and sensory nerves, is also activated by chemical agonists such as 2-aminoethyl diphenylborinate (2-APB). Repetitive stimuli induce sensitization of TRPV3 activation, characterized by the cumulative increase in current amplitude and linearization of current-voltage relation (I/V curve). Through genomic analysis of various populations, we found non-rare TRPV3 mutation (p.

Exploring positive aspects of caregiving in family caregivers of adult ICU survivors from ICU to four months post-ICU discharge.

Background: Despite growing attention to the positive meaning from ICU survivorship, little is known about positive experience among family caregivers of ICU survivors.

Objectives: To explore positive aspects of caregiving in family caregivers from patients' ICU admission to 4-month post-ICU discharge.

Methods: A secondary analysis of data from 47 family caregivers of ICU patients who self-reported the measure, Positive Aspects of Caregiving (PAC, 11-item, score range 11-55).

Fast relaxation and desensitization of angiotensin II contraction in the pulmonary artery via AT1R and Akt-mediated phosphorylation of muscular eNOS.

Angiotensin II (AngII) triggers a transient contraction of pulmonary arteries (PAs) followed by protracted desensitization. Based on the unconventional eNOS expression in PA smooth muscle cells (PASMCs), we hypothesized that activation of smooth muscle eNOS by AngII might be responsible for fast relaxation and tachyphylaxis. Using dual-wire myograph, mechanically endothelium-denuded rat PA [E(-)PA] showed AngII concentration-dependent transient contractions (ΔT, 95% decay within 1 min), which were abolished by losartan (AT1R antagonist).

Increased inward rectifier K current of coronary artery smooth muscle cells in spontaneously hypertensive rats; partial compensation of the attenuated endothelium-dependent relaxation via Ca -activated K channels.

Endothelium-dependent vasorelaxation is partly mediated by small-conductance (SK3) and intermediate-conductance Ca -activated K channels (SK4) in the endothelium that results in endothelium-dependent hyperpolarization (EDH). Apart from the electrical propagation through myoendothelial gap junctions, the K released from the endothelium facilitates EDH by increasing inward rectifier K channel (Kir) conductance in smooth muscle cells. The EDH-dependent relaxation of coronary artery (CA) and Kir current in smooth muscle cells (CASMCs) of hypertensive animals are poorly understood despite the critical role of coronary flow in the hypertrophic heart.

Development and Validation of the Nursing Home Care-related Quality of Life Scale.

Objectives: We developed an instrument to assess nursing home residents' quality of life (QOL), with a focus on QOL-related factors modifiable through nursing home care, within the South Korean context; then, we tested its validity and reliability.

Design: The scale was constructed through a literature review, qualitative interviews, expert panel review, and a focus group interview; then, it was validated through survey research.

Setting And Participants: Residents (N = 667) from 42 nursing homes in South Korea participated in scale validation.

Effects of a patient safety course using a flipped classroom approach among undergraduate nursing students: A quasi-experimental study.

Background: The nursing education system has changed with the increased emphasis on patient safety in healthcare settings. Early education in patient safety is crucial to preparing nurses to be competent in patient care. Therefore, providing undergraduate patient safety education courses using an innovative approach is essential to enhancing patient safety and quality in nursing care.

Endurance exercise training restores atrophy-induced decreases of myogenic response and ionic currents in rat skeletal muscle artery.

Atrophic limbs exhibit decreased blood flow and histological changes in the arteries perfusing muscles. However, the effect of atrophy on vascular smooth muscle function is poorly understood. Here, we investigated the effect of unilateral sciatic denervation on the myogenic response (MR) and the ionic currents in deep femoral artery (DFA) smooth muscles from Sprague-Dawley rats.

Work schedule characteristics and fatigue among rotating shift nurses in hospital setting: An integrative review.

Aim: To systematically evaluate the effect of work schedule characteristics on fatigue among shift nurses in hospital settings.

Background: The complexity and multidimensional nature of nursing work may lead to fatigue. This review mainly focused on work schedule characteristics that may mitigate the fatigue in nurses.

Effect of nurse staffing on rehospitalizations and emergency department visits among short-stay nursing home residents: A Cross-sectional study using the US Nursing Home Compare database.

The aim of this study was to examine the effect of nurse staffing on both rehospitalizations and emergency department emergency department visits among short-stay nursing home residents in the United States. Data for 11,132 US nursing homes were drawn from the 2016 Nursing Home Compare. We found that the Five-Star Quality Rating System's staffing rating is a significant predictor for the rates of rehospitalization and emergency department visit among short-stay nursing home residents.

Associations Among Nursing Work Environment and Health-Promoting Behaviors of Nurses and Nursing Performance Quality: A Multilevel Modeling Approach.

Purpose: This study aimed to determine the relationships among the unit-level nursing work environment and individual-level health-promoting behaviors of hospital nurses in South Korea and their perceived nursing performance quality.

Methods: This study used a cross-sectional design. Data were collected using self-reported questionnaires from 432 nurses in 57 units at five hospitals in South Korea.

Longitudinal associations of nursing staff turnover with patient outcomes in long-term care hospitals in Korea.

Aims: To describe the characteristics of long-term care hospitals in 2010-2013 and to examine the longitudinal associations of nursing staff turnover with patient outcomes.

Background: The number of long-term care hospitals has exploded in Korea since the national long-term care insurance was launched in 2008. The care quality deviation across long-term care hospitals is large.

Biphasic augmentation of alpha-adrenergic contraction by plumbagin in rat systemic arteries.

Plumbagin, a hydroxy 1,4-naphthoquinone compound from plant metabolites, exhibits anticancer, antibacterial, and antifungal activities via modulating various signaling molecules. However, its effects on vascular functions are rarely studied except in pulmonary and coronary arteries where NADPH oxidase (NOX) inhibition was suggested as a mechanism. Here we investigate the effects of plumbagin on the contractility of skeletal artery (deep femoral artery, DFA), mesenteric artery (MA) and renal artery (RA) in rats.

Maxi-K channel (BK) activity veils the myogenic tone of mesenteric artery in rats.

Arterioles and small arteries change their tone in response to transmural pressure changes, called myogenic tone (MT). In comparison to the branches of cerebral arteries (CA) showing prominent MT, the third branches of mesenteric arteries (MA) with similar diameters show weaker MT Here, we aimed to analyze the electrophysiological differences responsible for the weaker MT in MA (MT) than MT in CA (MT). We measured ionic current using patch clamp in isolated MA smooth muscle cells (MASMCs) and CA smooth muscle cells (CASMCs) of rats.

Effects of high glucose with or without other metabolic substrates on alpha-adrenergic contractions in rat mesenteric and femoral arteries.

Hyperglycemia is associated with an increased risk of cardiovascular diseases. It has been demonstrated that chronic exposure to high glucose impaired endothelial functions. However, specific effects of short-term exposure to high glucose on vascular reactivity are controversial.

Variation Across U.S. Assisted Living Facilities: Admissions, Resident Care Needs, and Staffing.

Purpose: Though more people in the United States currently reside in assisted living facilities (ALFs) than nursing homes, little is known about ALF admission policies, resident care needs, and staffing characteristics. We therefore conducted this study using a nationwide sample of ALFs to examine these factors, along with comparison of ALFs by size.

Design: Cross-sectional secondary data analysis using data from the 2010 National Survey of Residential Care Facilities.

Hypoxic pulmonary vasoconstriction and vascular contractility in monocrotaline-induced pulmonary arterial hypertensive rats.

Pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) is a progressive disease characterized by vascular remodeling of pulmonary arteries (PAs) and increased vascular resistance in the lung. Monocrotaline (MCT), a toxic alkaloid, is widely used for developing rat models of PAH caused by injury to pulmonary endothelial cells; however, characteristics of vascular functions in MCT-induced PAH vary and are not fully understood. Here, we investigated hypoxic pulmonary vasoconstriction (HPV) responses and effects of various vasoconstrictors with isolated/perfused lungs of MCT-induced PAH (PAH-MCT) rats.

Role of muscular eNOS in skeletal arteries: Endothelium-independent hypoxic vasoconstriction of the femoral artery is impaired in eNOS-deficient mice.

We previously reported that hypoxia augments α-adrenergic contraction (hypoxic vasoconstriction, HVC) of skeletal arteries in rats. The underlying mechanism may involve hypoxic inhibition of endothelial nitric oxide synthase (eNOS) expressed in skeletal arterial myocytes (16). To further explore the novel role of muscular eNOS in the skeletal artery, we compared HVC in femoral arteries (FAs) from eNOS knockout (KO) mice with that from wild-type (WT) and heterozygous (HZ) mice.

Inhibition of TREK-2 K(+) channels by PI(4,5)P2: an intrinsic mode of regulation by intracellular ATP via phosphatidylinositol kinase.

TWIK-related two-pore domain K(+) channels 1 and 2 (TREKs) are activated under various physicochemical conditions. However, the directions in which they are regulated by PI(4,5)P2 and intracellular ATP are not clearly presented yet. In this study, we investigated the effects of ATP and PI(4,5)P2 on overexpressed TREKs (HEK293T and COS-7) and endogenously expressed TREK-2 (mouse astrocytes and WEHI-231 B cells).

Psychometric properties of the Korean version of the incivility in nursing education-revised (INE-R) survey.

In this study, we developed and tested the psychometric properties of a translated and culturally adapted Korean version of the Incivility in Nursing Education-Revised (INE-R) survey. Using a cross-sectional design, the INE-R was administered to a convenience sample of 284 students enrolled in three Korean nursing colleges. Descriptive statistics were calculated for 24 student and 24 faculty incivility behavior items.