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 a systematic review protocol designed to synthesize qualitative evidence on nursing students' experiences of engagement, satisfaction, and self-efficacy in virtual reality-based education, aiming to guide evidence-based curriculum implementation and support mechanisms.
A cross-sectional study of 202 midwives in Eswatini identified significant training needs across all measured categories, with research/audit and newborn resuscitation emerging as the highest priorities to inform targeted emergency obstetrics and neonatal care programs.
This observational study of 501 ICU patients in a teaching hospital within a low-middle-income country demonstrates that the Nursing Activities Score (NAS) is a reliable tool for assessing nursing workload and effectively predicting patient mortality, with non-survivors exhibiting significantly higher scores than survivors.
This multicenter cross-sectional study of 1,036 nurses in central Vietnam reveals that higher levels of person-centered care and patient safety competence are significantly associated with a stronger patient safety culture, partly mediated by increased engagement in patient safety management activities.
This study demonstrates that social support significantly buffers the adverse psychological effects of poor sleep quality on anxiety and depression among Chinese nursing interns, suggesting that interventions should combine sleep hygiene education with strategies to enhance social support.
This qualitative study in Western Saudi Arabia identifies that while Patient Care Technician programs aim to alleviate healthcare workforce shortages, their effectiveness is currently hindered by recruiting overqualified graduates, unclear career pathways, and cultural mismatches, necessitating policy reforms to align roles with appropriate qualifications and local expectations.
This meta-analysis of 13 controlled trials involving 1,215 women undergoing assisted reproductive technology demonstrates that relaxation interventions significantly reduce anxiety and depression and improve quality of life, although they do not significantly affect stress levels.
This retrospective study developed and validated a predictive nomogram using four admission factors—diabetes, maximum norepinephrine dose, use of pneumatic compression pumps, and albumin level—to effectively identify ICU patients at high risk for the deterioration of Stage 1 pressure injuries.