Submissions from 2025
Recruitment and retention of intensive care unit survivors in follow-up studies: A systematic review, Beverley Ewens, Vivien Kemp, Yvonne Middlewick, Amanda Towell-Barnard, and Lisa Whitehead
The outcomes of a structured bowel management programme on childhood functional constipation: A retrospective pre – post intervention study, Gunilla Flankegård, Peter Wide, and Evalotte Mörelius
Weight stigma amongst nurses and nursing students: A scoping review of direct and comparative evidence, Mahshid Fonoudi, Beverley Ewens, and Amanda Towell-Barnard
The importance of advancing international family nursing practice across the lifespan, Mandie Foster, Barbara K. Giambra, Lindsay Smith, Elisabeth Coyne, and Lisa Whitehead
Nurse leaders’ perceptions of organisational policies, guidelines, and practices that enact children and young people’s involvement in hospitals, Mandie Jane Jane Foster, Julie Blamires, Virginia Jones, Smita Keshoor, Chris Moir, and Annette Dickinson
A child-centred research checklist to improve the design and reporting of paediatric research studies: A descriptive mixed methods study, Mandie Foster, Lisa Whitehead, Therese A. O'Sullivan, Julie Hill, and Evalotte Mörelius
Acupuncture for women undergoing in vitro fertilization: An updated systematic review and meta-analysis with trial sequential analysis, Qin Wei Fu, Shao Mi Zhu, Ji Chen, Yong Qin Liu, Chang Hao Liang, Lin Jiang Song, Jing Zhuang, Xin Tan, Li Zhou Liu, Ling Luo, Hai Yan Yin, Wing Fai Yeung, Shu Cheng Chen, Wei Ting Liu, Qin Xiu Zhang, and Yong Tang
Indirect evidence of sex-selective abortion practices to the imbalanced sex ratio at birth in Australian migrant populations, Amanuel Tesfay Gebremedhin, Gizachew A. Tessema, Ravisha Srinivasjois, Judith A. Daire, Kevin A. Chai, Bereket Duko, Kalayu Brhane Mruts, and Gavin Pereira
The nurse's role in curative-to-palliative transitions in advanced cancer: A theory synthesis using Turner's method, Geya George, Deborah Kirk, and Davina Porock
Work while you learn: Evaluating a paid employment model for postgraduate midwifery students in diverse contexts, Sadie Geraghty, Kirstie Balding, Sheena McChlery, and Sarah Hay
Patient perception of involvement in nursing bedside handover: A cross-sectional study, Manonita Ghosh, Kaoru Nosaka, Rosemary Saunders, Olivia Gallagher, Amanda Towell-Barnard, Debannita Ghosh, Lucy Gent, and Linda Coventry
Patient and family involvement in nursing bedside handover: A qualitative descriptive study of consumer perceptions of nursing care, Manonita Ghosh, Beverly O’Connell, Hien Thi Nguyen, Linda Coventry, Amanda Towell-Barnard, Olivia Gallagher, Karen Gullick, Lucy Gent, and Rosemary Saunders
Methodological insights from evaluating a family member's voice reorientation programme: An interpretive descriptive approach., Johnson U. Gideon, Towell-Barnard Amanda, McLean Christopher, Robert Glenn, and Ewens Beverley
Perils of precisely equal group size in randomised controlled trials, Richard Gray, Daniel Bressington, Bridgina Mackay, Martin Jones, and David R. Thompson
Prevalence and trends of coexisting forms of malnutrition and its associated factors among children aged 6–59 months in South and Southeast Asia, 1996–2022: A cross-sectional time series study, Wenjie Guo, Maggie Zgambo, Sanmei Chen, and Yoko Shimpuku
Factors influencing the provision of human milk feeding support for preterm infants in Neonatal Intensive Care Units in China: A qualitative study of neonatal nurses’ perspectives, Wenjie Guo, Haiyan Zhang, Li Wang, Fang Huang, Dongmei Ma, Maggie Zgambo, Sanmei Chen, Yan Wu, Yanmei Bu, and Yoko Shimpuku
A multivariate analysis of reported quality of life among medical students in Jordan using the WHOQOL-BREF, Mohammad Hamad, Saba Al Smadi, and Diana Arabiat
Working with patients who self-injure: An open label study of an educational intervention to upskill emergency nurses on non-suicidal self-injury, Penelope Hasking, Amanda Aiyana, Jonathon Burcham, Samantha Carey, Joanne M. Dickson, Daniel Fatovich, Logan Hopkins, Eme John, Shirley McGough, Chloe McLean, Irene Ngune, and Alex Wheeler
Nurses’ and midwives’ job satisfaction and retention during COVID-19: A scoping review, Laura Hynes, Sadie Geraghty, Sheena McChlery, Aisling Smyth, Reeti Brar, and Karen Clark-Burg
Silence is not golden: How academic nursing and midwifery is failing our Afghan sisters, Robin Ion, Laura Jackson, and Radha Adhikari
From the ICU bedside: Applying the transnational clinical academic doctorate lens to a clinically embedded PhD journey, Gideon U. Johnson
Predicting violence in the intensive care unit: Can artificial intelligence protect those who care?, Gideon U. Johnson, Amanda Towell-Barnard, and Beverley Ewens
The development of a family-led novel intervention for delirium prevention and management in the adult intensive care unit: A co-design qualitative study, Gideon U. Johnson, Amanda Towell-Barnard, Christopher McLean, and Beverley Ewens
Factors that influence international nursing students’ experiences and perceptions of their learning environments: A scoping review, Fatch Welcome Kalembo, Sally Wilson, Terena Solomons, Irene Ngune, Eric Lim, Anna Bosco, Paul Kebble, John Taplin, and Janie Brown
Improving communication to enhance health literacy and self-management of heart failure: Protocol for a multimethod study, Neda Karimi, Francesco De Toni, Walter Abhayaratna, Blake Askelin, Philip Currie, Karol Edge, Christopher Etherton-Beer, Elizabeth Fewster, Liza Goncharov, Nisha Jijo, Susy Macqueen, Nilufeur Mckay, Suzanne Raine, Amineh Rashidi, Christopher Rouen, Rosemary Saunders, Peter Schulz, Rhea Tecson, and Diana Slade
Knowledge and perceptions of modifiable ischaemic heart disease risk among Indians: Scoping review, Kunwar Kaur, Ma'en Zaid Abu-Qamar, Amineh Rashidi, Nilufeur McKay, and Rosemary Saunders
Applying hybrid coding and reflexivity in qualitative content analysis: An exemplar, Kunwar Kaur, Ma’en Zaid Abu-Qamar, Amineh Rashidi, Nilufeur McKay, and Rosemary Saunders
A qualitative analysis of Australian midwifery students’ perspectives of Midwifery Practice Experience: Characteristics that enhance or diminish clinical education placements, L. Kearney, Dianne Bloxsome, S. Hunter, A. Brown, Simon Cooper, and F. Bogossian
Changes in the contributions of risk factors to under-five mortality in low- and lower-middle-income countries (1997-2022): An analysis of Demographic and Health Survey data, Bereket Kefale, Jonine Jancey, Amanuel T. Gebremedhin, Gavin Pereira, and Gizachew A. Tessema
Factors associated with employment outcomes in cancer survivors: A systematic scoping review spanning a decade of international research, Emma Kemp, Anna Ugalde, Skye Marshall, Lisa Grech, Imogen Ramsey, Deborah Kirk, Georgia Halkett, Cherith Semple, Cristiane Bergerot, Yu Ke, Hannah Jongebloed, Nicolas H. Hart, Darren Haywood, Ian Olver, Carolyn Taylor, Sue Woodall, Nirmala Bhoo-Pathy, Larissa Nekhlyudov, Suvam Banerjee, Wendy W.T. Lam, Juhee Cho, and Bogda Koczwara
Efficacy of multimodal psychological interventions on pain after surgery in breast cancer survivors: A systematic review, Samantha K.F. Kennedy, Sarina Sadeghi, Shayan Raeisi Dehkordi, Shing Fung Lee, Deborah Kirk, Yin Ting Cheung, Darren Haywood, Lisa Grech, Imogen Ramsey, Helena Guedes, Jerry Zhou, Rouhi Fazelzad, Eriko Narusawa, Kaori Tane, Nicolas H. Hart, Malika Peera, Ayush Patel, Nina Fuller-Shavel, Ying Sheng, Fredrick D. Ashbury, Henry C.Y. Wong, Jennifer Yin Yee Kwan, Edward Chow, Michael Jefford, Raymond J. Chan, and Yuichiro Kikawa
Development of 24-hour rhythms in cortisol secretion across infancy: A systematic review and meta-analysis of individual participant data, Laura Kervezee, Michelle Romijn, Kirsten N.G. Van De Weijer, Britney S.J. Chen, George L. Burchell, Marieke S. Tollenaar, Marcela Tamayo-Ortiz, Lauren E. Philbrook, Carolina De Weerth, Yang Cao, Joost Rotteveel, Rina D. Eiden, Rima Azar, Nicole R. Bush, Adina Chis, Grazyna Kmita, Melissa W. Clearfield, Roseriet Beijers, Michael Gröschl, Stefan A. Wudy, Andries Kalsbeek, Evalotte Mörelius, and Martijn J.J. Finken
Understanding needs, barriers, and facilitators to self-management among people living with type 2 diabetes in Lilongwe and Blantyre, Malawi, Madalo Gloria Kalero Kuchawo
Identifying key factors associated with assistive technology availability for dementia care using machine learning, Wai Hang Kwok, Syed Afaq Ali Shah, and Guanjin Wang
Nurse by numbers: The impact of early warning systems on nurses' higher-order thinking, a quantitative study, Marie Danielle Le Lagadec, Deb Massey, Amy Louise Byrne, Justine Connor, and Tracy Flenady
Skin-to-skin contact at birth for very preterm infants and symptoms of depression and anxiety in parents during the first year – A secondary outcome of a randomized clinical trial, Siri Lilliesköld, Karoline Lode-Kolz, Björn Westrup, Nils Bergman, Kimmo Sorjonen, Ulrika Ådén, Evalotte Mörelius, Siren Rettedal, and Wibke Jonas
The effect of resistance inspiratory muscle training in the management of breathlessness in patients with thoracic malignancies: A randomised controlled trial, Meng Yuan Li, Xian Liang Liu, Bo Peng, Tao Wang, Li Qun Yao, Hou Qiang Huang, Wai Hang Kwok, Jing Yu Benjamin Tan, and Alex Molassiotis
Somatic acupressure for the management of the fatigue-sleep disturbance-depression symptom cluster in breast cancer survivors: A study protocol for a phase III randomised controlled trial, Mengyuan Li, Tao Wang, Xian Liang Liu, Ren Li Deng, Wai Hang Kwok, Li Qun Yao, and Jing Yu Benjamin Tan
Comparative diagnostic accuracy of nursing delirium screening scale versus confusion assessment method for postoperative delirium: A systematic review and meta-analysis, Chia Jou Lin, Donna Marie Fick, Victoria Traynor, Yi Chen Chen, Hui Fen Hsiang, and Hsiao Yean Chiu
Primary care physicians' responses to treatment burden in people with type 2 diabetes: A qualitative video analysis in China, Kai Lin, Mi Yao, Lesley Andrew, Runqi Lin, Rouyan Li, Yilin Chen, Xinxin Ji, Jacques Oosthuizen, Moira Sim, and Yongsong Chen
Does acupuncture at motor-related acupoints affect corticospinal excitability? A systematic review and meta-analysis, Renming Liu, Aung Aung Kywe Moe, Weiting Liu, Maryam Zoghi, and Shapour Jaberzadeh
Consumers' perspectives on the design of a new digital frailty education course, ‘Focus on Frailty’: A qualitative co-design study, Kristiana Ludlow, Benignus Logan, Jhalak Arora, Sarah Martin, Elizabeth Miller, Ruth E. Hubbard, Nicola Warren, Olivia Gallagher, and Rosemary Saunders
Focus on frailty: Co-designing digital frailty education with healthcare students, Kristiana Ludlow, Sarah Martin, Benignus Logan, Ruth E. Hubbard, Nicola Warren, Olivia Gallagher, Bonnie K. Kwok, and Rosemary Saunders
Understanding supervisory practice and development in the pre-HDR space: An ethogenic approach, Jenny Martin, Alison Owens, Sara Bayes, Paul Tofari, Claire Lynch, Nicola Brown, Benjamin Mountford, and Ellen Warne
Rising above the strain? Adaptive strategies used by healthcare providers in intensive care units to promote safety, Debbie Massey and Brigid M. Gillespie
The impact of a planned change to nurse staffing levels in emergency departments: A pre-test, post-test design, Vera J.C. Mc Carthy, Noeleen Brady, Ashling Murphy, Aileen Murphy, Jane Ball, Robert Crouch, Christine Duffield, Peter Griffiths, Anne Scott, and Jonathan Drennan
Intrapartum hydration assessment and management: A cross-sectional survey of Australian and New Zealand maternity units, Brianne G. McIntyre, Debbie Massey, Nigel Lee, and Lauren Kearney
Bridging competency and technology: User evaluation of a digital clinical workbook for nurse practitioner students, Nilufeur McKay, Michelle Pedlow, Peter Palamara, and Fiona Foxall
Evaluation of a virtual home health heart failure program: Mixed methods study, Nilufeur McKay, Rosemary Saunders, Helene Metcalfe, Sue Robinson, Peter Palamara, Kellie Steer, Jeannie Yoo, Miles Ranogajec, Lisa Whitehead, and Beverley Ewens
Research publication performance of the Australian and New Zealand nursing and midwifery professoriate, Lisa McKenna, Fiona Bogossian, Simon Cooper, Tracy Levett-Jones, and Philippa Seaton
Family members’ experiences of post-cardiac surgery delirium in the intensive care unit: A narrative inquiry, Amber Coral McLean
Women’s experiences of declining recommended or routine maternity care: A systematic review, Ilyana Mohamed Hussain, Kate Buchanan, Linda Sweet, and Sara Bayes
Clinical is the pinnacle: Nurse academics' perspectives and opinions of their students undertaking mental health clinical placements, Lorna Moxham, Kim Foster, Brenda Happell, Richard Lakeman, Michael Hazelton, and John Hurley
Are you sure they're a nurse? Public perceptions of Australian school nursing, Anita Moyes and Brent A. Hayward
The accidental school nurse: How Australian registered nurses enter school nursing, Anita Moyes and Susan Karemba
The evolving role of nursing informatics in the era of artificial intelligence, Abdulqadir J. Nashwan, J. C.A. Cabrega, Mutaz I. Othman, Mahmoud Abdelwahab Khedr, Yasmine M. Osman, Ayman Mohamed El-Ashry, Rami Naif, and Ahmad A. Mousa
Postoperative care pathways for patients following coronary artery bypass grafting surgery: An observational study, Dima Nasrawi, Sharon Latimer, Debbie Massey, and Brigid M. Gillespie
Developing a child-reported measure of inpatient experience of healthcare, Helen J. Nelson, Hayley Harrison, Katie McKenzie, Anne M. Williams, Girish Swaminathan, and Evalotte Mörelius
Nursing assessment of mental health issues in the general clinical environment: A descriptive study, Irene Ngune, Beverley Ewens, Sharlene Bell, Brendon Burns, Claire Sutton, Craig Creswell, and Yvonne Middlewick
Support networks and care needs: Insights from older Vietnam-born Australians living with chronic disease, Thi Ngoc Minh Nguyen, Rosemary Saunders, Gordana Dermody, and Lisa Whitehead
Mental health support workers perspectives on barriers to and facilitators of the effective delivery of their roles: A systematic review and meta-aggregation, Martha Njuguna, Irene Ngune, and Yvonne Middlewick
Nursing student reflections on a research internship: A reflective discussion following the Gibbs' reflective cycle, Francine Antoinette Ocampo, Brianne Genevieve McIntyre, Debbie Massey, and Rosemary Saunders
Determining timeframes to death for imminently dying patients: A retrospective cohort study, Tricia O’Connor, Wai Man Liu, Juliane Samara, Joanne Lewis, Karen Strickland, and Catherine Paterson
Assessing the effect of awareness of international oxygen therapy guidelines on oxygen administration practices among nurses during the COVID-19 pandemic: A survey of nurses working in the pediatric and medical departments of a National Teaching and Referral Hospital in low-resource settings, Joseph Odhiambo, Lucy W Kivuti-Bitok, Solomon Omare, and Irene Ngune
Emotional safety in maternity care: An evolutionary concept analysis, Elliesha O'Reilly, Kate Buchanan, and Sara Bayes
Effects of pregnancy and lactation prebiotics supplementation on infant allergic disease: A randomized controlled trial, Debra J. Palmer, Alana R. Cuthbert, Thomas R. Sullivan, Rachelle A. Pretorius, Johan Garssen, Kristina Rueter, Maria C. Jenmalm, Jeffrey A. Keelan, Desiree Silva, and Susan L. Prescott
Development of a reporting guideline for Trochim’s concept mapping, Sandesh Pantha, Martin Jones, and Richard Gray
Short interpregnancy interval and preterm birth: Rethinking maternal age as a modifier, Gavin Pereira, Amanuel T. Gebremedhin, and Gizachew A. Tessema
Advancing person-centred care through palliative care WA’s ACP workshops: The longer-term impact, Gertrude G. Phiri, Emma Gunner, Philip Bafile, and Davina Porock
Harnessing technology in pediatric nursing: Balancing innovation, equity and sustainability, Karin Plummer, Nicole Pope, Melissa D. McCradden, Amanda J. Ullman, Mandie Foster, Jennifer N. Stinson, and Bronwyn Griffin
Rethinking procedural holding through a trauma-informed lens, K. Plummer, C. Kotzur, and M. Foster
The Careful Project: Evaluating the acceptability of local virtual reality experiences as a leisure activity for residents in aged care, Davina Porock, Patricia Cain, Christopher Young, Julieanne Hilbers, Maria Bomm, Manonita Ghosh, and Mandy Stanley
Understanding perceptions, attitudes and experiences of nursing students during clinical placement in Primary Health Care settings – A scoping review, Debbie Procter, Kylie McCullough, Debbie Massey, and Karen Strickland
Psychological implications of preterm birth, Livio Provenzi, Minesh Khashu, Mia McLean, and Evalotte Morelius
Academic support strategies for nursing students with a disability at university — An integrative review, Lucie M. Ramjan, Gina Richards, David Roach, Belinda McGrath, Peta Drury, Clare Walters, Manela Glarcher, Ruth Crawford, Peter Wall, and Yenna Salamonson
The changes in health-related quality of life after attending cardiac rehabilitation: A qualitative systematic review of the perspective of patients living with heart disease, Amineh Rashidi, Lisa Whitehead, Helena Halton, Lisa Munro, Ian Jones, and Lisa Newson
A qualitative study of treatment adherence from the perspective of nurses and patients following acute coronary syndrome, Amineh Rashidi, Lisa Whitehead, Lisa Newson, Andrea Connolly, Suzanne Robinson, Prachi Kaistha, Mark Makokha, Rebecca Larsen, and Rosemary Saunders
The effects of interventions on health-related quality of life of people living with cardiovascular disease: A systematic review, Amineh Rashidi, Lisa Whitehead, Lisa Newson, Helen Walthall, Clare Van Miert, Vivien Kemp, and Ian Jones
Dementia awareness raising forum: Improving attitudes towards people living with dementia, Sheridan T. Read, Rosemary Saunders, Matthew A. Albrecht, and Ravani Duggan
Development and validation of competencies for home-based nursing care: An e-Delphi study, Khairul Dzakirin Bin Rusli, Ying Lau, Siew Tiang Lau, Laura Schmidt Tham, Michelle Mong Nee Kee, Qi Wen Ng, Shu Fen Ong, Karen Strickland, and Sok Ying Liaw
Measuring the impact of The Australian National Placement Evaluation Centre to enhance nursing and midwifery student clinical placements: A multimodal evaluation, Colleen Ryan, Robyn Cant, Areum Hyun, Debbie Procter, Louise Alexander, Dianne Bloxsome, Lynda Hughes, Fiona Bogossian, and Simon Cooper
Decolonising outcome measurement: A systematic review of health and wellbeing measures for Māori, Margaret Sandham, Maree Roche, Melissa Carey, Richard J. Siegert, and Rebecca J. Jarden
Patients' perception of missed nursing care in a tertiary hospital: A cross-sectional study, Afia Achiaa Sarpong, Amanda Towell-Barnard, Lucy Gent, Ebenezer Afrifa-Yamoah, and Diana Arabiat
Families' experiences of end-of-life care in an acute private hospital: A qualitative study, Rosemary Saunders, Susan Alexander, Julie Andrew, Anne Wilkinson, Karen Gullick, Ashwini Davray, Manonita Ghosh, Karla Seaman, and Michelle Gay
Observing nursing assistant companions supporting older adults in hospital: A cross-sectional study, Rosemary Saunders, Kate Crookes, Tania Leach, Seng Giap Marcus Ang, Caroline Bulsara, Beverly Ewens, Michelle Gay, Karla Seaman, Paige Watkins, Christopher Etherton-Beer, and Olivia Gallagher
Hospital volunteer programs for older people: A systematic scoping review, Rosemary Saunders, Francine Antoinette Ocampo, Renée Graham, Angela Christiansen, Michelle Gay, and Karla Seaman
The importance of aged care policies in assisting older adults transition from home to permanent residential aged care: A focused ethnographic study, Stacey M. Scott, Annette J. Raynor, Julie S. Dare, Jennifer M. Grieve, and Leesa N. Costello
A window into vulnerability and support: At-risk mothers' perinatal experiences and perspectives on mHealth-based care, Lubna Shah, Aayisha, Yong Shian Goh, Mahesh Choolani, Johan Gunnar Eriksson, Cornelia Ying Ing Chee, Shang Chee Chong, Jancy Mathews, Lina Hsiu Kim Lim, Evalotte Mörelius, and Shefaly Shorey
Sleep in residential aged care: A secondary qualitative analysis of data from the Australian Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety, Aisling Smyth, Patricia Cain, Sabine Pangerl, Christopher Gordon, Kasia Bail, and Davina Porock
Shaping a better future for children living with rare diseases: The pivotal role of paediatric nurses, S. Somanadhan, K. Roberts, L. Pelentsov, N. Canbulat Sahiner, S. D. Scott, and M. Foster
Fostering a publication culture: Supporting students and early career researchers in nursing and midwifery, Gemma Stacey, Kate Buchanan, and Raluca Oaten
Compassionate self-care for nurses and midwives: A sequential explanatory mixed methods study, Mary Steen, Shwikar Othman, Jennifer Fereday, Annette Briley, Qunyan Xu, and Rachael Vernon
Assessment of the psychometric properties of the mask usability scale: A measure of the perceived usability of N95 respirators among healthcare students and staff, Lorna Kwai Ping Suen, Wai Hang Kwok, Ignatius Tak Sun Yu, Sony Nai Yeung So, Kin Cheung, Paul Hong Lee, Lily Yuen Wah Ho, Ka Yan Ko, Sukki Ho, and Simon Ching Lam
Perceptions on the use of hypnotherapy in supportive care of patients during active cancer treatment in Australia: A mixed methods study, Malwina Szmaglinska
Trends and determinants of early neonatal mortality in Ethiopia: Evidence from the Ethiopian demographic and health survey data, Tsion Mulat Tebeje, Beminate Lemma Seifu, Yordanos Sisay Asgedom, Kusse Urmale Mare, Zufan Alamrie Asmare, Hiwot Altaye Asebe, Abdu Hailu Shibeshi, Afework Alemu Lombebo, Kebede Gemeda Sabo, Bezawit Melak Fente, and Bizunesh Fantahun Kase
Social determinants of health and nutrition among school-age children and adolescents, Gizachew A. Tessema, Tesfaye S. Mengistu, Amanuel T. Gebremedhin, Eleanor Dunlop, Gavin Pereira, Adyya Gupta, and Molla M. Wassie
An integrative review of specialised nursing career frameworks to develop a nursing career framework for registered nurses working in aged care, Sachini Thennakoon, Seng Giap Marcus Ang, Victoria Traynor, and Karen Strickland
How does trauma informed care education for paediatric healthcare professionals’ impact self-reported knowledge and practice. An integrative review, Megan Thornton, Julie Blamires, Mandie Foster, Rebecca Mowat, and Stephanie Haven
Implementing a gerontological nursing competencies programme in aged care: Participant experiences, Victoria Traynor, Nicole Britten, Diane Gibson, Stephanie Munk, Lynn Chenoweth, Jolan Stokes, Tracey Moroney, Karen Strickland, Toni Donaghy, and Kasia Bail
Facilitating Aboriginal perinatal mental health information access with a retrieval-augmented LLM-based chatbot, Made Srinitha Millinia Utami, Wai Hang Kwok, Jayne Kotz, Roz Walker, Guanjin Wang, and Rhonda Marriott