Nursing & Health Sciences

09/01/2026

How do coping styles shape resilience in emergency nurses facing workplace violence?

This article shows that coping styles play a critical mediating role between perceived organizational support (POS) and resilience among emergency nurses exposed to workplace violence.

Key insights from this study:
- Strong organizational support encourages nurses to adopt positive coping styles (e.g., problem-solving, seeking support), which in turn enhance resilience
- Negative coping styles (e.g., avoidance, denial) weaken the protective effect of organizational support and reduce resilience

Coping styles explain a substantial portion of how organizational support is translated into psychological resilience

Why it matters:
Organizational support alone is not sufficient. Its impact on resilience depends on how nurses cope with workplace violence. Interventions must therefore target both organizational systems and individual coping mechanisms.

📚 This article is featured in our latest Virtual Issue on the most cited articles of 2025, highlighting research with strong impact on nursing practice and policy.

Coping Styles Mediated the Association Between Perceived Organizational Support and Resilience in Emergency Nurses Exposed to Workplace Violence

Resilience was a core factor for mitigating the risks of adverse impacts of workplace violence (WPV) and may be determined by perceived organizational support (POS) and coping styles. The aim of this...

07/01/2026

Would you like to know which articles published in 2025 have been cited the most?

We’ve gathered our most-cited 2025 articles into a Virtual Issue, now FREE to read for 90 days.

Don’t miss this opportunity to explore the research that made the biggest impact!

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04/01/2026

First Article of 2026

Understanding Life With Chronic Heart Failure From the Patient’s Perspective

We are delighted to share that this is our first article published in 2026 🎉

This study presents the development and psychometric validation of the Spanish version of the Experience of Living With Chronic Heart Failure—University of Navarra Scale. This novel patient-reported outcome measure goes beyond physical symptoms to capture how chronic heart failure (CHF) affects personal identity, family and social roles, daily life, and spiritual needs.

Study highlights

Multicenter study

Final instrument: 30 items across 5 dimensions

Robust psychometric properties

Why it matters

The first scale internationally to comprehensively assess the experience of living with CHF

Promotes a holistic, person-centred understanding of chronic heart failure

Ready for transfer to clinical practice and research settings

Read the full article:

https://doi.org/10.1111/nhs.70285

Living with chronic heart failure (CHF) implies physical consequences but also alterations in personal identity, family and social roles, and spiritual needs. No patient-reported outcome measures hav...

31/12/2025

Happy New Year 🥳

31/12/2025

✨ One of the last articles published this year ✨

What Is My Role? A Qualitative Study of Labor, Birth, and Postpartum Experiences of Partners

🔗 https://doi.org/10.1111/nhs.70280

This qualitative study explores partners’ lived experiences during labor, birth, and the postpartum period. Based on in-depth interviews with 31 participants, the findings show that partners take on a comprehensive caregiving role for both the birthing woman and the newborn, covering physical, emotional, and social care.

Key insights
Partners (women and men) act as integral caregivers, including social roles such as spokesperson, liaison, and decision-maker.

Three distinct forms of decision-making are identified: joint, supportive, and autonomous, offering new insight into partner involvement.

The study highlights underexplored barriers, including the undervaluation of partners’ roles and limited institutional support.

These findings emphasize the importance of supporting partners to strengthen family-centred care during labor, birth, and the postpartum period.

This study explores partners' roles during labor, birth, and the postpartum period, and the factors influencing their performance. A qualitative interpretive phenomenological approach was adopted to ...

25/12/2025

December Editor’s Choice 🌟

We are pleased to highlight our December Editor’s Choice:

“A Systematic Review of Staff Perspectives on Safety on Psychiatric Wards” by Oladapo Akinlotan & Maria Dumitriu.

This timely systematic review synthesize evidence on patient safety in psychiatric wards from the perspective of healthcare professionals. Drawing on 17 qualitative studies, the authors identify four key themes shaping safety in psychiatric settings:

- Perceptions of safety

- Safety interventions

- The therapeutic environment

- Staff and patient safety

The findings underline that safety on psychiatric wards is multifaceted, extending beyond physical protection to include psychological security, compassionate care, supportive environments, and staff well-being. Crucially, the review highlights the need to balance protection and patient autonomy while addressing risks such as self-harm, su***de, violence, aggression, sexual abuse, and medication misuse.

📖 Read the full article:

Patients on psychiatric wards encounter harm while receiving care, which leads to millions of fatalities every year. Understanding staff's perspectives on patients' safety on psychiatric wards is cru...

24/12/2025

From our Virtual Issue on Innovations in Healthcare
“Jumping on the Blood Pressure Bandwagon”: Nurse, GP, and Patient Perspectives of a General Practice Nurse-Led Hypertension Management Intervention

Hypertension remains a leading cause of premature death and disability worldwide. This qualitative study explores how patients, general practice nurses, and GPs experienced a nurse-led intervention to improve blood pressure control in primary care.

Key insights:
• Current models of care do not adequately support blood pressure management
• General practice nurses are ideally positioned to communicate risk and support lifestyle change
• Nurse-led hypertension care is feasible, acceptable, and valued by patients
• Long-term sustainability requires appropriate funding, teamwork, and collaboration
These findings highlight a clear opportunity for nurses to take a more proactive role in hypertension management—while underscoring the systemic support needed to sustain change.

🔗 Read the full article: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/nhs.13166

19/12/2025

New Virtual Issue: Innovations in Healthcare

Explore our latest virtual issue, edited by Kathryn Kynoch, bringing together a curated selection of recent research showcasing innovation across methodologies, contexts, and patient populations.

🔹 Emerging technologies

🔹 Nurse-led interventions

🔹 Workforce challenges and solutions

Together, these papers reflect an exciting and challenging era of healthcare evolution. We hope this collection sparks dialogue, inspires new research, and supports the ongoing transformation of nursing and health sciences worldwide.

🔗 Read the virtual issue:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1111/(ISSN)1442-2018.innovations-in-healthcare

18/12/2025

16/12/2025

New scoping review published

Medication errors in infants and children remain a critical patient safety concern. This scoping review explores nurses’ and midwives’ perceptions of pediatric medication errors, highlighting key contributing factors and barriers to error reporting.

Key findings include:

• Heavy workload, interruptions, and limited resources as major contributors to errors

• Fear, negative emotions, and concerns about professional consequences as barriers to reporting

• A significant gap in evidence on midwives’ perspectives, underscoring the need for greater inclusion

The review calls for supportive, non-punitive reporting systems, better resourcing, and the integration of midwives into medication safety initiatives and policy development to strengthen pediatric care.

Now available free to read for 90 days:

This scoping review synthesizes the literature exploring nurses' and midwives' perceptions of medication errors in infants and children, with a focus on factors contributing to errors and barriers to...

16/12/2025

We are delighted to share that our Editor-in-Chief, Janet Delgado, recently participated in a recorded webinar on Ethical Challenges in Artificial Intelligence in Nursing, organized by the AI Nurse Network (https://www.ai-nurses.com).

The seminar is available free of charge and can be accessed here: https://youtu.be/ptv-cO1bjqM

Many thanks to Siobhán O’Connor for the excellent organization of this insightful and timely seminar.

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Janet Delgado, a Professor at the Yamaguchi University in Japan, discusses her research on the ethics of artificial intelligence in nursing and healthcare, a...

12/12/2025

New Article Published in Nursing & Health Sciences!

Empowering Nurses for a Sustainable Future: The Impact of Green Leadership and Climate Literacy on Green Creativity

We are delighted to share this timely and impactful study examining how climate literacy and green leadership drive green creativity among nurses, an essential pillar for building environmentally responsible healthcare systems.

Grounded in theories of planned behavior, transformational leadership, and green creativity, this study surveyed 334 nurses across six hospitals in Egypt.

Findings show that:

🔹 Higher climate literacy significantly boosts nurses’ green creativity

🔹 Green leadership further strengthens this positive effect

🔹 The impact of climate literacy is strongest when green leadership is high

These results underscore the importance of:

- Integrating climate literacy into nursing curricula

- Embedding green leadership training into professional development

- Supporting eco-innovation, sustainability teams, and green performance indicators in clinical settings

This research contributes valuable insights into how nursing professionals can lead the transition toward sustainable, climate-smart healthcare.

Now, available free to read for 90 days!

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Grounded in the theories of planned behavior, the transformational leadership model, and the green creativity framework, this study examined how climate literacy influences nurses' green creativity a...