Healthcare delivery systems must be flexible and dynamic to meet changes in the healthcare-needs landscape, which are driven by demographic, disease pattern, environmental, and other trends. The healthcare workforce, which provides healthcare services, plays a critical role in healthcare delivery system operations. Nurses and midwives account for approximately half of the healthcare workforce worldwide (World Health Organization, 2019). Thus, nursing research plays a crucial role in promoting and advancing public healthcare.
Assessing habits, improving coping skills, developing resilience, and enhancing adherence in patients are important to optimizing healthy behaviors and securing a better quality of life. This issue of The Journal of Nursing Research includes articles titled Assessment of Dietary Habits in Patients With Chronic Heart Failure, Improving Coping Styles in Family Caregivers of Psychiatric Inpatients Using Planned Behavior Problem-Solving Training, The Process of Developing Resilience in Burn Patients, and Discrepancy Among Self-Reported Adherence, Prescription Refills, and Actual Anticoagulant Control.
In addition, nursing research is diverse, embracing physical, mental, social, spiritual environment and education aspects from acute to primary care settings in the community. The articles in this issue also highlight two nursing-education-related topics: Predictors of Palliative Care Knowledge Among Nursing Students in Saudi Arabia: A Cross-Sectional Study and Effects of an Education Intervention on Nursing Students' Knowledge and Attitudes Regarding Skin Self-Examination and Skin Cancer Risks. Furthermore, articles in this issue that address various populations and settings, include Depression in Non-Hospitalized Jordanian Patients with Coronary Artery Disease, The Effects of Massage and Acupressure on Relieving Labor Pain, Labor Time, and Satisfaction, and Interdisciplinary Practitioners' Shared Subjective Frames Involved in Residents' Function-Focused Care in Nursing Home: Q-Methodology.
The articles in this issue offer important information and insights for the improvement of nursing research and practice. Nurses comprise the largest part of the healthcare workforce worldwide and care for patients in various settings and play a crucial role in related health-science research.
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