International Journal of Nursing Knowledge

The purpose of this concept analysis was to clarify the meaning and the attributes of traditional Korean (Hanbang) nursing.

Data sources include Academic Search Complete, Allied and Complementary Medicine Database, EBSCOhost, PubMed, MEDLINE, and Research Information Sharing Service.

We used Walker and Avant's method to analyze the concept of Hanbang nursing.

By exploring its common use in the literature, a comprehensive definition of the concept of Hanbang nursing was developed.

The results of analyzing the current concept of Hanbang nursing will help provide a better understanding of it and contribute to expanding nursing knowledge and developing of a valid and reliable measurement.

To identify the NANDA-I–NOC–NIC (NNN) linkages for inpatients of the obstetrics nursing unit using electronic nursing records.

In this retrospective, descriptive survey, the electronic nursing records for 220 adult patients aged ≥18 years who were discharged after obstetrics nursing unit were analyzed.

The 7 most frequent nursing diagnoses were found to be associated with 9 nursing outcomes and 26 nursing interventions.

Herein, the list of nursing diagnoses was observed to comprise the safety/protection domain, the list of nursing outcomes the physiological health domain, and the list of nursing interventions the physiological: complex domain.

This result can contribute to improving the nursing quality and will help continuing education and documentation system refinement.

To analyze the accuracy of the defining characteristics of hypothermia in newborns and to verify associations between defining characteristics and clinical variables.

A cross-sectional accuracy study with statistical analysis.

Slow capillary refill, decrease in ventilation, peripheral vasoconstriction, and insufficient weight gain were the defining characteristics with the highest specificity values, while slow gastric emptying, skin cool to touch, irritability, and bradycardia were the defining characteristics with the highest values for both sensitivity and specificity.

Slow gastric emptying, skin cool to touch, irritability, and bradycardia are good clinical indicators to infer initial stages of hypothermia and to confirm its presence.

Accuracy measures may contribute to the improvement of the diagnostic inferential process.

Analisar acurácia das características definidoras de Hipotermia em recém-nascidos e identificar a associação delas com variáveis clínicas.

Estudo de acurácia transversal com análise estatística.

Preenchimento capilar lento, diminuição da ventilação, vasoconstrição periférica e ganho de peso insuficiente apresentaram valores altos de especificidade enquanto esvaziamento gástrico lento, pele fria, irritabilidade e bradicardia apresentaram valores elevados de sensibilidade e especificidade.

Esvaziamento gástrico lento, pele fria, irritabilidade e bradicardia são úteis para inferir estágios iniciais de hipotermia e para confirmação diagnóstica.

Medidas de acurácia podem contribuir para o processo de inferência do diagnóstico hipotermia.

To estimate the use of the Nursing Outcomes Classification (NOC) for falls and fall prevention.

This cross-sectional, descriptive study enrolled 196 registered nurses in South Korea.

Outcome assessments for falls and fall prevention were performed for 30–50% of hospitalized patients. The NOC outcomes related to falls and fall prevention were used more in surgical units than medical units.

The performance rates of the outcomes related to falls and fall prevention were not high in hospitalized patients.

Strategies should be developed to increase the use of the NOC by nurses for fall prevention. In this way, nurses’ contributions to patient outcomes would be recognized and the safety of patients would be enhanced.

To estimate the prevalence of Grieving, risk for Complicated Grieving, and Complicated Grieving in the primary care setting.

Retrospective epidemiological study, analyzing data from electronic health records (EHR).

A total of 84% of the 9,063 records had diagnostic labels without defining characteristics, related factors, or risk factors. A larger frequency of complicated grieving was found in deceased mourners.

The grieving epidemiology opens new chances for the research using data from EHR.

The adequacy of the records is essential to develop a profile of the patient at risk of complications after the loss.

This research is an important step to build an epidemiological basis for nursing diagnosis of grieving in the primary health care setting.

The use of standardized nursing languages helps nurses understand patients' needs with precision and speed. This study assessed the knowledge of standardized nursing languages (SNL); how nurses perceive SNL and nurses utilization of SNL.

The study adopted a cross sectional research design. Participants were recruited using convenience sampling technique. Data was collected using 5-sectioned self-structured questionnaires whose validity and reliability had been previously ascertained. Data collected was analyzed using Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) version 20.

Results showed that majority of the nurses that participated in the study are female (83.8%). Only 60.0% of the nurses know the number of steps in nursing process while very few (5.4%) can correctly define what SNLs is. Knowledge of SNLs shows that 26.2% have high knowledge; 44.6% moderate knowledge while 29.2% had low knowledge. Utilization of SNL by nurses showed that Majority (83.8%) of the nurses in the study agreed that utilization of SNL help nurses to deliver quality nursing care; 67.7% of nurses agreed that the use of SNL makes nursing practice unique, 55.4% opined that the use of SNL can be cumbersome while only 24.6% often use nursing process for patients' care.

Although, participants in this study agreed that the use of SNL is crucial to quality nursing care, with poor utilization.

To develop conceptual and operational definitions for defining characteristics and related factors for nursing diagnosis of urinary retention, as contained in Taxonomy II of NANDA-I.

Integrative literature review and elaboration of terms related to urinary retention.

It includes operational and conceptual definitions of the nursing diagnosis urinary retention.

It is necessary to review the definition of this nursing diagnosis and most of its defining characteristics and related factors.

The use of internationally known terms for various disciplines in areas of common knowledge helps to standardize the language used by professionals.

To examine factors associated with frailty among the young-old elderly (YOE) and old–old elderly (OOE).

This longitudinal study with a 3-year follow-up included 486 participants who received home care services.

Precipitous weight loss and depression in the YOE and worsening of complex mobility and depression in the OOE were associated with worsened frailty over the 3-year period.

To prevent frailty, we suggest weight-loss prevention programs for the YOE, lower-limb exercise programs for the OOE, and depression management programs for both groups.

The findings may be used by geriatric nurses in developing programs to prevent frailty in the OOE and YOE, and in administering nursing intervention programs at nursing home centers.