18 papers
Nursing represents the vital bridge between clinical science and compassionate patient care, exploring everything from bedside procedures to the complex emotional needs of healing communities. This field goes far beyond basic medical tasks, investigating how caregivers influence recovery, manage chronic conditions, and support families during their most vulnerable moments.
At Gist.Science, we curate the latest research on nursing directly from medRxiv, ensuring that these critical insights remain accessible to everyone. We process every new preprint in this category, transforming dense academic findings into both plain-language overviews and detailed technical summaries so you can grasp the full scope of the work without getting lost in jargon.
Below are the latest papers in nursing, offering a fresh look at how evidence-based practice is evolving to improve lives every day.
This paper outlines the protocol for a pragmatic, stepped-wedge randomized controlled trial embedded within a health system's operational workflow to evaluate the effectiveness of an EHR-integrated Ambient AI tool in reducing nursing documentation time and improving staff well-being across inpatient medical/surgical units.
This secondary qualitative analysis of 20 care partners using Transitions Theory reveals that dementia care transitions are characterized by multiplicity and unpredictability, necessitating tailored interventions that integrate anticipatory guidance, care planning, psychosocial support, and community linkages to address the significant decision-making burdens and unmet needs of care partners.
This study demonstrates that AI agent-assisted root cause analysis significantly outperforms traditional manual methods in accuracy, depth, and efficiency when addressing quality defects in Central Sterile Supply Departments, offering a valuable tool for enhancing nursing management and decision-making.
This study successfully cross-culturally adapted and psychometrically validated a Chinese version of the ISBAR Structured Handover Observation Tool, demonstrating its high reliability, strong content validity, and ability to discriminate between nurses of varying experience levels for assessing ICU-to-ward patient transfers.
This cross-sectional study of nursing students in conflict-affected Nineveh, Iraq, demonstrates that integrating digital technologies and learner-centered strategies significantly enhances educational outcomes, underscoring the urgent need for leadership and policy reforms to build a resilient nursing workforce and advance health equity in fragile settings.
A quantitative study of 241 student nurses in Eastern Ghana reveals that the school environment and social interaction are significant predictors of their overall satisfaction with academic programmes, highlighting the need for institutional interventions in these areas.
The authors have withdrawn their manuscript on safeguarding against hospital-acquired pressure injuries in dark skin tones because it is being substantially revised with a new perspective and different conclusions, and they request that it not be cited.
This prospective cohort study of 528 neonates in Tigray, Ethiopia, found that 41% experienced peripheral intravenous cannula-related local complications, with a median onset of 78 hours, and identified chronic illness, lack of saline flushing, non-visible veins, multiple insertion attempts, and specific insertion sites as significant independent predictors.
This paper outlines the protocol for a randomized controlled trial designed to evaluate the efficacy and underlying neuromuscular mechanisms of a 6-week Daoyin exercise program, grounded in the theory of goal attainment, compared to core stability exercises for improving pain and functional outcomes in patients with lumbar disc herniation.
This 2025 cross-sectional study at Felege Hiwot Comprehensive Specialized Hospital in Ethiopia found that only 40.1% of nurses demonstrated good documentation practice, with educational level, positive attitude, patient load, and knowledge identified as significant associated factors.