Research trend
Recent publication patterns, student learning angles, and practice implications for Nursing Education.
Editorial context
This trend view groups 34 reviewed records connected to Nursing Education. It is a reading path, not a claim that publication volume alone proves a change in practice; compare dates, methods, populations, and source strength.
Among 204 eighth-semester students at Alexandria University, mean self-reported empathy scores increased from 52.47 to 62.64 immediately after a 15-week psychiatric nursing course. With no comparison group or delayed...
Nine focus groups with 65 elders and caregivers identified five proposed approaches to medication adherence: personal systems, responses to cost, medication review, community support, and medical advocates. The study...
In this 2017 phenomenological dissertation, 20 BSN students at one southeastern Pennsylvania university described mostly unfavorable attitudes toward mental health nursing. Prior exposure, course content, faculty...
A questionnaire study of 218 second-year nursing students in Murcia found significant relationships among resilience, academic burnout and psychological health. Regression analysis indicated that resilience moderated...
In a survey of 93 school nurses, most respondents viewed anxiety as their students’ leading mental health concern. Most also reported using neither a formal screening tool nor an intervention protocol, and most wanted...
In a one-group pre-survey/post-survey dissertation study, nursing students enrolled in a mental health course scored higher on every trauma-informed care knowledge item after a researcher-led education session; the...
In this Israeli study of 50 adults, 32% of adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder met criteria for probable PTSD versus only 4% of typical adults. Social victimization, not general life stress, emerged as the most common..
In 91 first-year Thai nursing students, mean 'mental health power' scores were reported as below threshold on all three subscales, though the percentage breakdown showed most students scoring normal on two of the...
This dissertation explores how first-generation nursing students who fail and then repeat a nursing course draw on resilience, using the 'push through' framework, to succeed and transform through the experience. Using...
In a survey of 112 nursing students, attitudes toward suicide did not predict confidence or skill in helping patients with mental health problems or self-harm; instead, only moderate confidence levels overall pointed...
This 2021 integrative review finds that despite school nurses being well positioned to assess and identify at-risk students, published literature lacks clear evidence linking specific nursing interventions to student...
This systematic review of 26 studies (2009-2019) found that adults with autism spectrum disorder show increased, not decreased, vulnerability to substance use and substance use disorder, challenging the old assumption...
In a DNP project, a single culturally tailored educational session doubled eating disorder knowledge scores among 20 Korean American women, and EAT-26 screening found all 20 participants at high lifetime risk for an...
In a study of 34 autistic adults and 66 typically developing controls, autistic adults reported more PTSD symptoms and more brooding rumination; brooding, but not reflective rumination, statistically explained part of...
In a survey of 788 nursing interns, 24.7% screened positive for anxiety and 10.5% for depression; psychological resilience partially mediated (53.9%) the protective link between social support and fewer negative...
A 2024 study of 682 Chinese nursing students found that maladaptive, but not adaptive, perfectionism was linked to feelings of relative deprivation, largely through heightened interpersonal sensitivity, with resilience..
In interviews with eight emergency department RNs, understanding of trauma-informed care ranged from strong to nearly nonexistent, and while TIC modules were available, they were not mandatory or consistently...
A 2025 study of 35 school nurses across six rural Eastern North Carolina districts found that nurse-inclusive suicide prevention protocols help nurses fulfill their preventive role, but practice varied widely between...
A 2025 Medicaid claims study of over 1.1 million enrollees found substance use disorder diagnoses among autistic adults without intellectual disability rose from 1.75% (2012) to 7% (2016), with adults aged 30-64 at...
A Walden University DNP project by Patience Madu found that a health belief model-based staff education program significantly increased nurses' knowledge (p < 0.05) of strategies to encourage medication adherence in...
A two-case qualitative study finds that when schools exclude nurses from communication and collaboration around at-risk students, it limits nurses' suicide-prevention role and contributes to moral distress, with...
A survey of 56 school-based health center providers found they felt less familiar with eating disorders than with mental health disorders generally, and despite rating eating disorder screening as very important, they...
This reflective case paper traces Thompson Rivers University School of Nursing's 40-year journey from a community college to a full university, describing how faculty built a culture of scholarship using Boyer's four...
Story Based Learning (SBL) is a Canadian-developed nursing teaching model that blends narrative pedagogy, case method teaching, and problem-based learning into a circular, six-phase process for working through practice..
A think-aloud study built a five-stage cognitive learning model of how nurses develop clinical reasoning from novice to expert.
A small qualitative study found nursing and pharmacy students valued interprofessional simulation and shed stereotypes about each other.
A Mixed Methods Study Comparing Nursing Preceptored Clinical Learning Experiences and Nursing Simulation Clinical Learning Experiences of Nursing Students in a Midwest Community College is a dissertations/theses -...
This qualitative dissertation explores how senior-level prelicensure nursing students perceive the integration of various forms of nursing informatics into their education. Through interviews with 10 participants, four..
This article describes an educational technique using pork shoulder to teach wound packing, a critical skill in managing uncontrolled external hemorrhage. Athletic trainers benefit from this hands-on lab activity as it..
The lack of access for the traditional clinical experience for nursing students, especially those in an Associate Degree nursing program, and the projected shortage of nursing faculty to educate nursing students in the..
This study found that increasing undergraduate HBCU nursing students' exposure to simulation using ATI resources by 50% led to positive perceptions (87% felt prepared) and a desire for more such courses, suggesting...
This qualitative study reveals that U.S. RN clinical instructors often feel unprepared to teach QSEN patient safety competencies, relying heavily on self-taught methods despite having working knowledge of the concepts...
This study explores perceptions of social justice among DNP nursing informatics instructors. Using descriptive phenomenology, it found they see social justice as recognizing healthcare inequities addressable through...
This pre-post study evaluates whether a structured undergraduate nursing research course improves students' evidence-based practice confidence and appraisal skills in Canada.
