What is already known about this topic?

• Lifestyles are a product of people's motivations to protect or improve their own health and to avoid illnesses.
• The lifestyles of nurses have an influence on their patients acquiring healthy behaviours.
• The literature shows that nurses' lifestyles are not as coherent as they should be.
• To care for others, nurses first have to take care of themselves.

What this paper adds?

• A high proportion of first-year nursing students had inappropriate lifestyles.
• The participants have risks of developing illnesses, especially those that are chronic.

The implications of this paper:

• Nursing students are mostly young people who are at a stage in which some of the most important behaviours for adult life can still be modified.
• It is necessary to develop educational interventions in nursing degrees to strengthen healthy behaviours during training.
• Nursing schools have the duty not only to train professionals but also to foster the health, welfare, and quality of those who study and work there. They must encourage knowledge and skills oriented to having more healthy lifestyles.

What is already known about this topic?

• Vaccination of nurses in long-term care facilities against seasonal influenza is essential to protect the residents by reducing their morbidity and mortality because of influenza complications.
• The factors affecting influenza vaccine uptake among nurses might vary between different medical facilities.
• Little is known about factors related to influenza vaccine uptake among nurses working in long-term care facilities.

What this paper adds?

• Perceived (personal) benefits of the vaccine appears to be the most significant health belief model construct affecting long-term care nurses' intention to receive the vaccine.
• Low perceived susceptibility to influenza appears to be the major barrier to vaccination among nurses working in long-term care facilities.
• The number of times of receiving the influenza vaccine in the past was strongly correlated with the intention to receive the vaccine.

The implications of this paper:

• To improve nurses' compliance with influenza vaccination at long-term care facilities, we find that it is necessary to emphasize the benefits of vaccination and, particularly, the personal benefits.
• An intervention program should aim at changing the mistaken perceptions of low-perceived susceptibility to influenza among nurses.
• Annual vaccination behavior should be promoted to make it become a routine.

What is already known about this topic?

• The status of nurses is manifested in their relationships with doctors and other nurses, nursing history, traditional nursing roles, media, public image, and self-image.

What this paper adds:

• The range of clinical nurses' perception of the nursing profession included that they could positively change a patient's life; that they are just laborers working in poor environments; and that altering and challenging attitudes about nurses' status are important.

The implications of this study:

• Nurse leaders and educators should consider nurses' perceptions toward the status of the nursing profession, and these perceptions should be reflected in the development of nursing education programs to improve the perceptions of nurses about the nursing profession.

What we already know?

• The role of nurses as researchers has largely centred on nurses who have received research education at a certain level.

What this study adds?

• Writing a bachelor's thesis has an influence on nursing students' involvement in scientific activities.

The implications of the study:

• Writing a bachelor's thesis has an influence on nursing students' attitudes towards research and development in nursing.

What is already known about this topic?

• The quality of life of patients with coronary artery disease is relatively lower than that of healthy people.

What this paper adds?

• A significant difference was shown in health-related quality of life according to sleep duration and subjective oral health.
• Good subjective oral health and no chewing discomfort both significantly predicted health-related quality of life among patients with coronary artery disease.

The implications of this study:

• To improve the health-related quality of life of patients with coronary artery disease, promotion and education on the necessity of regular dental clinic visits should be conducted to ensure early interventions.

What is already known about this topic?

• Sleep disorders may affect the quality of life of pregnant women.

What this paper adds?

• Relationships are shown between sleep quality and quality of life.
• Sleep quality and its 2 subdomains (sleep disturbance and daytime dysfunction), marital relationship, satisfaction with husband's job, and the place of receiving prenatal care were predictive of quality of life.

The implications of this paper:

• Health care providers should not overlook sleep problems as part of natural experience of pregnancy.
• Appropriate assessment and treatment of sleep problems as well as correction of sociodemographic, behavioral, and mental-social factors are of crucial importance for improving health-related quality of life.
• Further studies are needed for studying the effect of sleep quality on quality of life.

What is already known about this topic?

• Chronic kidney disease (CKD) patients demonstrated physical function limitations, psychological stress, and decreased health-related quality of life.
• Empirical studies have concluded that aerobic exercise is beneficial to patients in end-stage renal disease.
• Home-based exercise is cost-effective, available, and can achieve equal improvements compared with center-based exercise.

What this paper adds?

• A home-based individualized exercise program was beneficial to patients in the early stages of CKD.
• This exercise program improved early-stage CKD patients' physical function, psychological dimensions, and quality of life.

The implications of this paper:

• Nursing staffs should pay attention to early-stage CKD patients' physical function limitations and take some strategies to improve the patients' exercise self-efficacy.
• Sedentary CKD patients should be encouraged to engage in home-based exercise for better physical and psychological adaptations.

What is already known about this topic?

• Disabled elders' life satisfaction is related to factors of the poor state of their own and caregivers' problem e.g. caregiver burden.
• The mechanism of how the factors affect disabled elders' life satisfaction is unclear.

What this paper adds?

• The study created a causal chain among the disability elders' activity of daily living, caregivers' burden, depression, life satisfaction, and disabled elders' life satisfaction and explored the interrelationship between above factors and disabled elders' life satisfaction.
• Findings indicated that family caregivers' burden not only affects elders' life satisfaction directly but also brings further problems to affect disabled elders' life satisfaction indirectly.

The implications of this paper:

• Government should pay high attention to the families of elderly people in long-term home care; pension policies should support elders' families including informal family caregivers in poverty-stricken ethnic minority areas.
• Examples of support include establishing assistance for the disabled elders, care training for family caregivers for free, establishment and improvement of respite care institutions, and psychological counselling. The caregiver's health should be comprehensively considered; formulation and improvement of a specialized disabled elders' family services.
• Nursing educators should include knowledge of the elderly in home care and ways of coping with care, nursing skills, and time management should be taught to family caregivers.

What is already known about this topic?

• Cancer is often characterized by patients experiencing severe pain.
• There are some different methods for pain reduction of cancer patients.
• Few studies have been conducted on the effectiveness of acupressure on cancer patients' pain.

What this paper adds?

• Acupressure can be an effective nonpharmacological technique in reducing leukemia patients' pain.
• Pain in the experimental group reduced significantly after each session.

The implications of this paper:

• Study findings support continued research in this area.
• Further studies should be conducted on other types of cancer to further our understanding of this method of pain relief.

What is already known about this topic?

• Previous studies have found strong differences in viewpoint regarding the adequate management of patients' suffering between physicians and nurses, as well as among nurses and among physicians.

What this paper adds?

• Through implementation of a combination of scenario-technique and of cluster analysis, as in previous studies focusing on personal positions, we found 4 qualitatively different positions on a nurse's refusal to give a repeat dose of opiates to a postoperative patient who requested it.
• These positions ranged from never acceptable to largely acceptable.

The implications of this paper:

• All nurses applied the justice principle of bioethics in their judgments, and most nurses applied the autonomy principle.
• Those who did not had, however, reasonable views that they shared with a majority of physicians.

What is already known?

• Ineffective nursing handovers may result in adverse patient outcomes.
• There are many different methods through which nursing handovers are delivered.

What this paper adds?

• This paper highlights that there remains an unfounded assumption that one handover process cannot be universally employed between differing nursing specialties.
• Variations of the ISOBAR handover mnemonic remain the most popular handover process through which to achieve standardization across nursing specialties.

The implications of this paper:

• This paper indicates the need for further research to compare the use of various handover models across various nursing specialties.
• This paper highlighted the need for research to determine the superiority of one handover model over others.