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This integrative review aims to identify what nurses currently offer through digital technology and their success in managing chronic pain.
An integrative review guided by Whittemore and Knafl was conducted.
Five databases—CINAHL, Medline, PsycINFO, PubMed, and Scopus—were utilised to gather relevant studies from January 2018 to November 2024.
Selected studies were assessed using the Mixed Methods Appraisal Tool and the Joanna Briggs Appraisal Tool. Braun and Clarke's thematic analysis was applied to identify pertinent themes.
Digital nursing technologies such as telehealth and web-based interventions effectively deliver interventions to assess and manage chronic pain; these technologies can reduce healthcare resource utilisation and increase accessibility. This review highlights that nurses commonly deliver exercise, cognitive-behavioural therapy, acceptance and commitment therapy and self-management techniques through digital technology.
This review indicates that web-based interventions and telemedicine are the primary digital technologies employed by nurses for chronic pain management providing psychosocial interventions, with evidence supporting their effectiveness. Digital and web-based technology is essential to bridge healthcare access gaps as nurses can provide this successfully with minimal nursing support and cost to the patient.
Evidence supports nurses in providing psychosocial interventions for the management of chronic pain, particularly web-based psychosocial interventions. Nurses need to adopt digital technology to improve access to care and patient outcomes and to maintain professional development in an increasingly digital world.
No patient or public contribution was used for this study.
New Zealand is one of the last high-income countries in the world experiencing significant rates of rheumatic fever. Nurses play a crucial role in rheumatic fever prevention; however, little is understood as to how nurses can best achieve this.
To explore nursing practices that optimise rheumatic fever prevention.
An integrative review.
Four electronic databases (CINAHL, SCOPUS, Medline via, and Ovid) were searched for peer-reviewed empirical articles published from 2013 to 2023. Grey literature (guidelines/reports) was also sourced. Critical appraisal was applied using the Mixed-Methods Appraisal Tools and the Joanna Briggs Critical Appraisal checklist. Qualitative Research in Psychology, 3(2), 77–101, thematic analysis method was used to generate themes.
Seven research articles and three national reports were included. Four themes—in-depth nursing knowledge and improving prophylaxis adherence, cultural competency, and therapeutic nurse–patient relationships—were found.
While nursing knowledge and ways to improve injection adherence are essential, being culturally receptive and developing therapeutic relationships are equally important. Without strong and trusting relationships, it is difficult to deliver care required for prevention success.
When working with vulnerable populations it is important to be culturally receptive in all interactions with patients and their families.
New Zealand has high rates of rheumatic fever, especially among vulnerable populations such as Pacific Islanders and Māori. Nurses are often frontline primary care providers who, when skilled with the right tools, can help reduce the prevalence of this disease.
The Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analysis flow chart.
No Patient or Public Contribution was required for this research.
To explore the International Network for Child and Family Centred Care (INCFCC) members' experiences and views on the long-term impact of COVID-19 on the nursing workforce.
On the 11 March 2020, the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a global pandemic. While some countries adopted a herd immunity approach, others imposed stricter measures to reduce the transmission of the virus. Hospitals in some countries faced an avalanche of extremely sick admissions, whereas others experienced an early surge in cases or were able to control the spread.
Discursive paper.
A web-based survey was e-mailed to 63 INCFCC members from 28 March to 30 April 2022, as an invitation to share their experience concerning the long-term impact of COVID-19 on their role as a nurse educator, clinician or researcher.
Sixteen members responded, and the responses were grouped under the themes stress and anxiety, safe staffing and pay, doing things differently, impact on research, impact on teaching and learning, impact on clinical practice, nursing made visible and lessons for the future.
The INCFCC members provided their views and highlighted the impact on their role in nursing education, administration, research and/or practice. This discussion of international perspectives on the similarities and differences imposed by COVID-19 found that the impact was wide-ranging and prolonged. The overarching theme revealed the resilience of the participating members in the face of COVID-19.
This study highlights the importance of all areas of nursing, be it in academia or in clinical practice, to work together to learn from the present and to plan for the future. Future work should focus on supporting organizational and personal resiliency and effective interventions to support the nursing workforce both during a disaster and in the recovery phase. Nursing workforce resilience in the face of COVID-19.
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