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{"title":"Critical soft skill competencies that clinical nurse educators consider important to evaluate in nurses.","authors":"Youngkwan Song, Cynthia M Lafond, Catherine Vincent, Mi Ja Kim, Chang G Park, Linda L McCreary","doi":"10.1002/nop2.70047","DOIUrl":"10.1002/nop2.70047","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Aim: </strong>Guided by Benner's framework, From Novice to Expert, this study aimed to identify (1) critical soft skills to be evaluated in nurses and (2) levels of nursing behaviour indicating achievement of soft skills to provide a framework for developing a soft skills rubric.</p><p><strong>Background/introduction: </strong>Nurse shortages are often attributable to high turnover rates among nurses. To improve this situation, healthcare facilities implement transition programmes and continuing education with a primary focus on developing and maintaining nurses' knowledge and performance (hard skills). However, balancing hard and soft skills (beliefs, values and attitudes) is key to nurses' quality of care and ultimately to their retention. Despite the importance of soft skills, their intangible nature creates problems in evaluating nurses' attainment of these skills and in providing constructive feedback to help them set concrete goals for improving their practice.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>This qualitative descriptive study described critical soft skills in the nursing context. A purposeful sampling strategy was used to enrol 13 clinical nurse educators from multiple hospital units; each had more than 2 years of clinical nurse educator experience and had completed preceptor training. One-to-one interviews with these individuals were audio recorded, transcribed and subjected to direct content analysis using NVivo 12. The study follows the Consolidated criteria for reporting qualitative research (COREQ) guidelines for qualitative studies.</p><p><strong>Findings: </strong>Five main competencies, comprising 20 subcompetencies, were identified: personal growth, effective interactions, professionalism, teamwork and the caring role. For each subcompetency, four skill levels were delineated using clinical indicators.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>This study's findings can enhance understanding of clinical nurse educators' perceptions regarding soft skills required of nurses.</p><p><strong>Implications for the profession and/or patient care: </strong>The soft skills identified can be incorporated into a rubric to be used by clinical nurse educators to evaluate and guide nurses' professional development and contribute to improving quality of care. No patient or public contribution is required for this study.</p>","PeriodicalId":48570,"journal":{"name":"Nursing Open","volume":"11 10","pages":"e70047"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2024-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11444259/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142367060","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Conceptual Considerations for Understanding Resilience in Healthcare Students.","authors":"Claire Donnellan, Deepthi Chakkittakandy, Christina Lydon","doi":"10.1002/nop2.70061","DOIUrl":"10.1002/nop2.70061","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Aims: </strong>Increasing attention has been given to the concept resilience in the context of healthcare especially during and post the COVID pandemic. Much of the inquiry and evidence reported has focused on promoting or enhancing resilience in healthcare for improving the quality of care and reducing medical negligence. This discursive paper aims to highlight how resilience is conceptualised and identify any potential limitations or gaps in the context of healthcare students, acknowledging considerations for further development and research into this topic.</p><p><strong>Design and methods: </strong>This discursive discussion draws on relevant theoretical underpinnings from the fields of adjustment and coping psychology, and research and evidence from health sciences, for facilitating an understanding of resilience in supporting healthcare students to adapt into professional practice.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Investigation of resilience in healthcare students is mainly identified at an individual level as personal traits or skills for working within complex healthcare systems and clinical environments. Less attention has been given to examining resilience at the organisation or systemic level. This is primarily because of limited frameworks for investigating resilience from a multidimensional perspective recognising a wider systemic level influenced by external factors including socioecological determinants, for example, available support services for healthcare students.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>The link between resilience and its function to mitigate against associated neuropsychological distress and subsequent pathopsychological disorders in healthcare student cohorts is recognised; however, greater understanding of resilience as a multidimensional construct is warranted.</p><p><strong>Relevance to clinical practice: </strong>A multidimensional investigation of resilience is critical for the preparation and readiness of healthcare structures and organisations in facilitating the needs of healthcare students entering challenging and diverse healthcare working environments.</p><p><strong>Patient or public contribution: </strong>No patient or public contribution.</p>","PeriodicalId":48570,"journal":{"name":"Nursing Open","volume":"11 10","pages":"e70061"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2024-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11491103/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142478046","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Investigating the relationship between moral courage and caregiving behaviours among nurses working in COVID-19 wards in Iran.","authors":"Naima Seyedfatemi, Raheleh Bahrami, Sajjad Hamidi, Marjan Mardani Hamooleh, Zahra Siahmansour Khorin, Zahra Abbasi","doi":"10.1002/nop2.70046","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/nop2.70046","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Aim: </strong>To examine the correlation between moral courage and caregiving behaviour among nurses who are employed in the COVID-19 ward in Iran.</p><p><strong>Design: </strong>This study is a descriptive-correlational and cross-sectional research conducted in 2021 in the city of Tehran, Iran.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>A total of 270 nurses employed in COVID-19 wards, who had been working in these wards for at least 1 month, were recruited from XXX hospitals and XXX Hospital. Data collection was conducted from September to November 2021. The data collection tools included a demographic information form, the Caring Dimension Inventory (CDI-25), and the Professional Moral Courage Scale (PMC). The designed questionnaire links were provided to the participants virtually through the Persian platform 'Pars Line' and via WhatsApp. Descriptive statistics and inferential statistics were used to examine the relationship between moral courage and care behaviour.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>There was a significant difference in the mean of caring behaviour between the age groups (<30 and >40 years old), and the work experience groups (<5 years and >15 years) (p < 0.05). Ethical values also varied significantly between certain age and experience groups (p < 0.05), but no significant differences were found in ethical behaviour across most ages (30-40 years) and work experience categories (>10 years) (p > 0.05). The level of moral courage among the nurses was higher than the median score of the instrument (87.31 ± 10.37). Among the dimensions of moral courage, the highest score was related to the dimension of ethical factors (17.64 ± 2.64), and the lowest score was related to the dimension of multiple values (17.26 ± 2.78). The level of caring behaviours among the nurses was lower than the median score of the instrument (46.11 ± 10.84). Among the dimensions of caring behaviours, the highest score was related to physical-technical behaviours (19.22 ± 5.27), and the lowest score was related to professional behaviours (1.35 ± 0.67). Based on the analysis, moral courage had a weak and inverse correlation with caring behaviours among nurses. The higher moral courage does not necessarily result in improved caregiving behaviours, emphasizing the need for further research to explore and address this relationship.</p><p><strong>Patient: </strong>No Patient or Public Contribution.</p>","PeriodicalId":48570,"journal":{"name":"Nursing Open","volume":"11 10","pages":"e70046"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2024-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11487565/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142478049","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Determination of the effect of the pre-surgery COVID-19 fear level and hygiene behaviours of the patients on the personal protective clinical measures developed after the surgery: A cross-sectional study.","authors":"Nilgün Sert Baş, Hatice Ayhan","doi":"10.1002/nop2.70035","DOIUrl":"10.1002/nop2.70035","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Aim: </strong>This study aims to examine patients' preoperative COVID-19 fear levels, hygiene behaviours, postoperative personal protective clinical measures, and their correlations with each other.</p><p><strong>Design: </strong>This research is a cross-sectional type of study.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>The study sample consisted of 131 patients hospitalized in the general surgery inpatient ward of a hospital in Turkey. The sample was determined by G-Power analysis. The data were collected in two stages in a research hospital between 1 April 2021 and 1 March 2022. Sociodemographic and Clinical Information Form, COVID-19 Fear Scale, COVID-19 Hygiene Scale were used before surgery; COVID-19 personal protective clinical measures questionnaire was used after surgery. Descriptive statistics, independent t-test, ANOVA test, Wilcoxon test and Spearman correlation analysis were used to evaluate the data.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>It was determined that preoperative COVID-19 fear levels, hygiene behaviours, and the personal protective clinical measures developed after the surgery were above moderate. A statistically significant and positive correlation was found between the COVID-19 Fear Scale and the preoperative COVID-19 Hygiene Scale and postoperative COVID-19 personal protective clinical prevention questionnaire total score and sub-dimension score averages. Patients' COVID-19 fears, preoperative and postoperative hygiene behaviours are statistically significantly associated with each other at a low level; postoperative clinical precautions and preoperative hygiene behaviours are statistically significantly associated with each other at a high level.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>The results of this study show that patients are terrified of COVID-19 while they are hospitalized due to surgical intervention during the pandemic process, and they increase their hygiene measures. It is thought that the results of the study will guide the regulation of clinical measures, patient education, and nursing care to be developed for patients during pandemic periods.</p><p><strong>Patient or public contribution: </strong>No patient or public contribution.</p>","PeriodicalId":48570,"journal":{"name":"Nursing Open","volume":"11 10","pages":"e70035"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2024-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11439585/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142356181","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Academic resilience of nursing students during COVID-19: An analysis using machine learning methods.","authors":"Zhu Liduzi Jiesisibieke, Mao Ye, Weifang Xu, Yen-Ching Chuang, James J H Liou, Tao-Hsin Tung, Ching-Wen Chien","doi":"10.1002/nop2.70018","DOIUrl":"10.1002/nop2.70018","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Aim: </strong>This cross-sectional study investigates the factors that contribute to academic resilience among nursing students during COVID-19 pandemic.</p><p><strong>Design: </strong>A cross-sectional study.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>A survey was conducted in a general hospital between November and December 2022. The Nursing Student Academic Resilience Inventory (NSARI) model was used to assess the academic resilience of 96 nursing students. The Boruta method was then used to identify the core factors influencing overall academic resilience, and rough set analysis was used to analyse the behavioural patterns associated with these factors.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Attributes were categorised into three importance levels. Three statistically significant attributes were identified (\"I earn my patient's trust by making suitable communication,\" \"I receive support from my instructors,\" and \"I try to endure academic hardship\") based on comparison with shadow attributes. The rough set analysis showed nine main behavioural patterns. Random forest, support vector machines, and backpropagation artificial neural networks were used to test the performance of the model, with accuracies ranging from 73.0% to 76.9%.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Our results provide possible strategies for improving academic resilience and competence of nursing students.</p>","PeriodicalId":48570,"journal":{"name":"Nursing Open","volume":"11 10","pages":"e70018"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2024-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11448854/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142373279","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The relationship between job crafting and work engagement among nurses in China: A latent profile analysis.","authors":"Hong-Li Zhang, Jun-Hua Liu, Wen-Jing Ma, Xiao-Ling Xu, Xiao-Lan Guo, Hong-Juan Lang","doi":"10.1002/nop2.70007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/nop2.70007","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Aim: </strong>To identify subtypes of job crafting among Chinese nurses and to explore the characteristics of different subtypes and their relationship with work engagement.</p><p><strong>Design: </strong>A cross-sectional study.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>A survey of 350 clinical nurses was conducted between December 2022 and January 2023. Identify profile categories for nurses' job crafting using a latent profile analysis. Logistic regression and ANOVA were used to explore the characteristics of different categories of nurses' job crafting in terms of sociodemographic, work engagement variables.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Ultimately 3 latent profiles are identified: low job crafting (Class 1, N = 177, 50.7%), moderate job crafting (Class 2, N = 136, 38.9%), high job crafting (Class 3, N = 37, 10.5%). Nurses who are female, aged 31 to 40 and married are more likely to be grouped into Class 2. Nurses with a middle level of title are more likely to be grouped as Class 3. Nurses with high levels of work engagement are more likely to be grouped as Class 2 and Class 3 rather than Class 1.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>The job crafting has a distinctly classified character among Chinese nurses. 89.6% of nurses were at a low to medium level of job crafting, work engagement is an important predictor of nurses' job crafting. Nursing Managers should focus on the low job crafting group and develop targeted interventions to help nurses improve their job crafting and work engagement levels.</p><p><strong>Patient or public contribution: </strong>None.</p>","PeriodicalId":48570,"journal":{"name":"Nursing Open","volume":"11 10","pages":"e70007"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2024-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11495650/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142510650","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Humanistic care ability and its influencing factors among Chinese surgical nurses.","authors":"Xiao-Ju Teng, Miao-Miao Yan, X U Yan-Qun, L I Yuan-Zheng, Xiu-Bin Tao, Wei-Zhen Zou, Xiao-Ming Wang, Wenru Wang, Ying Jiang","doi":"10.1002/nop2.70021","DOIUrl":"10.1002/nop2.70021","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Aim: </strong>This paper aims to investigate the humanistic care ability among surgical nurses in China and identify its statistically significant influencing factors.</p><p><strong>Design: </strong>A cross-sectional, descriptive and correlational design was used.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>A total of 210 surgical nurses were recruited from a tertiary public hospital in Wuhu, Anhui Province. Four with incomplete responses were excluded, leaving 206 participants for data analysis. Variables were measured using the general questionnaire, caring ability inventory (CAI), and General Self-Efficacy Scale (GSES). Multivariate linear regression analyses were performed to identify the statistically significant influencing factors of participants' humanistic caring ability.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The overall average score of the CAI was 190.14 (SD = 19.24), and the average scores for the three dimensions of cognitive, courage, and patience were 70.46 (SD = 7.77), 62.12 (SD = 8.47) and 57.56 (SD = 6.02), respectively. The overall average score of the GSES was 26.05 (SD = 5.77). Professional attitude, perceived care from the department head nurse, perceived care from colleagues and self-efficacy were the statistically significant factors influencing the humanistic care ability of surgical nurses (R² = 0.45, adjusted R² = 0.44, F = 40.64, p < 0.001).</p>","PeriodicalId":48570,"journal":{"name":"Nursing Open","volume":"11 10","pages":"e70021"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2024-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11491107/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142478048","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Validation of the Spanish Version of the Nurses' Global Assessment of Suicide Risk Scale (NGAR) in Nonclinical Settings.","authors":"Laura Alonso-Martínez, José Carlos Santos, Madalena Cunha, Jesús Puente-Alcaraz","doi":"10.1002/nop2.70057","DOIUrl":"10.1002/nop2.70057","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Aim: </strong>To validate the Nurses' Global Assessment of Suicide Risk (NGASR) in Spanish for an early detection identification of the risk of suicide.</p><p><strong>Design: </strong>A descriptive cross-sectional survey design was used for this work through face-to-face clinical interviews with each participant.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>Following EQUATOR TRIPOD checklist, the index was translated and administered to a sample of 30 mental health experts and 151 university students. To examine the psychometric properties of the NGASR, the questionnaires also included other standardised scales such as BDI, SBQ and SEEQ. The research was conducted between 2022 and 2023.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The content validity index-scale (CVI-S) was 81% and the NGASR presented high reliability with a Kuder-Richardson coefficient of 0.83. Exploratory factor analysis (EFA) returned a six-factor structure for the NGASR items. The results showed that 21.7% of the students assessed had an intermediate to very high suicide risk. This study also revealed that people with mental health problems and depression had a higher risk of suicide.</p><p><strong>Public contribution: </strong>Beyond the sociolinguistic Spanish validation of the scale, it should be noted that it is carried out on a young population in a nonclinical environment, something that many authors have been requesting in their previous validations. The NGASR is a useful prevention tool in university educational settings.</p>","PeriodicalId":48570,"journal":{"name":"Nursing Open","volume":"11 10","pages":"e70057"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2024-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11512755/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142516720","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Relationships between organizational support, emotional intelligence and work engagement among Chinese nurses: A correlation study.","authors":"Xing Gao, Yanli Zhou, Xiao Xu, Ran Yuan, Yanxue Zheng, Ren Yun","doi":"10.1002/nop2.70034","DOIUrl":"10.1002/nop2.70034","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Aim: </strong>To investigate and analyse the current situation of clinical nurses' sense of organisational support, emotional intelligence and work engagement in different departments and their correlation, in order to provide guidance for enhancing the sense of organisational support, improving nurses' emotional intelligence and mobilising nurses' work engagement and to promote the development of nursing teams.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Clinical nurses from three hospitals in eastern and western China were selected by convenience sampling method from September to October 2023 and were surveyed using a general information questionnaire, organisational support questionnaire, emotional intelligence scale and work engagement scale. We investigated the correlation between nurses' sense of organisational support, emotional intelligence and work engagement in clinical units.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The clinical nurses investigated in this study had moderate levels of perceived organisational support and emotional intelligence and high levels of work engagement. The total score of the nurses' sense of organisational support questionnaire was positively correlated with the total score of the emotional intelligence scale, the total score of the work engagement scale and the scores of all dimensions (all p < 0.05). Emotional intelligence played a partial mediating effect in the effect of nurses' organisational support on work engagement, accounting for 35.57% of the total effect.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Clinical nurses' sense of organisational support was positively correlated with emotional intelligence and work engagement; there was a chain mediating effect of clinical nurses' emotional intelligence between sense of organisational support and work engagement. Organisational support can enhance the emotional intelligence of caregivers as well as promote work engagement. It is suggested that nursing managers can enhance the level of nurses' engagement by giving effective organisational support and at the same time improving nurses' perception of psychological safety.</p>","PeriodicalId":48570,"journal":{"name":"Nursing Open","volume":"11 10","pages":"e70034"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2024-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11474886/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142478052","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"An Exploration of Registered Nurses' Experiences Caring for Patients Taking Medicinal Cannabis.","authors":"Nicole McIntosh, Nathan J Wilson, Petra Povalej, Leanne Hunt, Peter Lewis","doi":"10.1002/nop2.70063","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/nop2.70063","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Aims: </strong>This study aimed to describe nurses' experiences caring for patients who use medicinal cannabis. For the purpose of this study, the term 'medicinal cannabis' is used to describe cannabis-based products that are sourced legally or illegally.</p><p><strong>Design: </strong>Qualitative study using thematic analysis.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Eleven registered nurses explored their experiences caring for patients using medicinal cannabis in the Australian healthcare sector. Semistructured interviews were via telephone, Zoom or face to face. Transcribed interview data were analysed using the six phases of thematic analysis.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The nurses' experiences of caring for patients who use medicinal cannabis were described in three themes; 'Searching for predictable processes of regulation, access and use of medicinal cannabis', 'One conundrum after another' and 'There is a lot to learn'. Overall, nurses described feeling underprepared to care for patients who use or want to use medicinal cannabis in the Australian healthcare sector.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>The results indicate that nurses want to have meaningful discussions with patients about the use of medicinal cannabis, yet do not always have the confidence to do so. Nurses sought their own education on how to better support patients. All participants echoed the need for education. The nurse's role in caring for and supporting patients using medicinal cannabis could improve the patient experience.</p><p><strong>Implications for the profession and/or patient care: </strong>Nurses play an essential role in improving the patient's experience and advocating for those using or wanting to discuss medicinal cannabis as a part of holistic care. Defining the nurse's role in effectively caring for patients can begin by providing evidence-based education to nurses. Including nurses in policy development and beginning to understand the legal and regulatory implications for nurses are important.</p><p><strong>Impact: </strong>This is the first study presenting current issues for nurses who care for patients using medicinal cannabis in Australian healthcare systems.</p><p><strong>Reporting method: </strong>COREQ guidelines were adhered to for this study.</p><p><strong>No patient or public contribution: </strong>For this research project on the experiences of registered nurses caring for patients using medicinal cannabis, we did not engage members of the patient population or the general public.</p>","PeriodicalId":48570,"journal":{"name":"Nursing Open","volume":"11 10","pages":"e70063"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2024-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11511588/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142510648","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}