Factors influencing nurses' turnover: An umbrella review.

Background: The global nursing shortage threatens health care systems. While many systematic reviews have examined factors influencing nurse turnover, the results have exhibited inconsistent findings.

Purpose: This umbrella review holistically synthesizes systematic reviews to identify factors impacting nurse retention and supporting evidence-based practices.

A Shared Decision-Making Model for Ethical Knee Pain Care in Older Muslim Adults.

Knee pain poses a substantial concern for older Muslim individuals during religious activities, such as performing salat. When assisting such patients with knee pain management, healthcare professionals may face ethical challenges. This paper explored ethical challenges encountered by older Indonesian Muslims experiencing knee pain, particularly, when considering total knee replacement surgery.

Pandemic prevention competencies of long-term care institution workers: A retrospective national survey in Taiwan.

Background: Long-term care institutions are especially vulnerable in pandemics. Despite Taiwan's proximity to COVID-19's epicenter, the country demonstrated effective pandemic management.

Purpose: This study assessed pandemic prevention competencies of Taiwan's long-term care workers, identifying key influencing factors.

A Scale to Assess Competence in Preventing Emerging Infectious Diseases Among Long-Term Care Workers.

Aim: To develop an instrument for assessing competence in emerging infectious disease prevention among health and care workers in long-term care institutions and evaluate its psychometric properties.

Design: A cross-sectional, descriptive design utilising both qualitative and quantitative methods was employed.

Methods: Based on scale development guidelines, the scale was developed in two phases, namely the scale development phase and scale testing phase, with the staff of long-term care institutions as the study population and their workplaces as the sampling unit.

Roles, Training, and Qualifications of Case Managers at Community Integrated Service Centers in Taiwan: A Narrative Review.

Purpose Of Study: This study explored the roles, training, and qualifications of case managers in level A of Taiwan's long-term care (LTC) system, established within the Ten-Year LTC Plan 2.0, to identify their challenges and provide recommendations for enhancing their performance.

Primary Practice Setting: This study focuses on community integrated service centers in Taiwan, which serve as key hubs for delivering LTC services to Taiwan's aging population.

Essential Competencies in Nursing Leadership From Asian Leaders' Perspectives.

The literature on nursing leadership tends to be mainly based on Western perspectives and models, which could be viewed as an imperialistic and colonialist aspect of nursing knowledge development. Furthermore, leadership competencies and skills could differ across countries due to variations in cultural backgrounds. The purpose of this discussion paper is to identify essential competencies of leaders from Asian nurse leaders' perspectives and provide suggestions for future nursing leadership.

Psychometric evaluation of the elderly mobility scale in Indonesia.

Background: The Elderly Mobility Scale (EMS) is widely used to identify mobility limitations in older adults, though it has not been validated in Indonesia.

Aim: To evaluate the reliability and validity of the Indonesian version of the EMS (EMS-I).

Method: A cross-sectional design involving 230 older adults in South Tangerang City, Indonesia, was used.

Characteristics of Successful Leadership: Perspectives From Asian Nursing Leaders.

Background: The development of nursing leaders is an important topic in changing healthcare environments. Successful nursing leadership is critical to the reconstruction, implementation, and evaluation of healthcare systems worldwide. However, the characteristics of successful nursing leadership remain unclear, especially in a global context.

Current Status of Translational Science in Nursing Across Four Countries.

The raison d'être of nursing is caring for human beings. Mainly due to its close link to the nursing discipline's raison d'être, "caring," translational science is recently getting more attention from nursing scientists across the globe. This paper is to discuss the current status of translational science in nursing across four countries (the USA, Taiwan, South Korea, and Japan).

Translation and adaptation of Shared Care Instrument-Revised for the older adults and their caregivers in Taiwan.

Background: The aging population in Taiwan has resulted in an increase in the dependent population and the care load on caregivers. Shared care is an interpersonal process in which support is "traded" to "handle" chronic illnesses by home-care patients and family caregivers. The scale of shared care has received little attention in the Taiwanese cultural context.

The life experiences of living alone among Indonesia dwelling widowed women: A phenomenological study.

In this study, the researchers aimed to understand the life experience of older widowed women living alone. Employing a phenomenological approach, we interviewed 15 older women (age 62 to 95) living alone at homes in two villages in Central Java. Through systematic text condensation procedure, we identified five themes: (1) negative feelings at times, (2) getting used to living alone, (3) needing help to support independent living, (4) coping toward negative feelings, (5) attachment to the original house.

Health and care workers in long-term care facilities and their role in preventing emerging infectious diseases: A scoping review.

Background: The COVID-19 pandemic has had a tremendous impact on healthcare systems worldwide. In particular, long-term care facilities have proved more susceptible to infection as they care for vulnerable populations at high risk of chronic illness. How this impacts the role and core competencies of health and care workers in these facilities remains less understood.

Relationship between physical activity and perceptions of ageing from the perspective of healthy ageing among older people with frailty with chronic disease: a cross-sectional study.

Background: In Taiwan, the 2019 Elderly Frailty Assessment found that 11.2% of older people have frailty problems. Some researchers have found that older persons' negative perspectives on ageing aggravate the progression of frailty, thereby increasing their risk of disability.

The Current Status of Research Mentoring in Nursing Across 4 Countries: A Discussion Paper.

The purpose of this article is to discuss the current status of research mentoring in nursing across 4 countries (the United States, Taiwan, South Korea, and Japan) and to make suggestions for future research mentoring. Seven leaders reflected on the current status of research mentoring in nursing, provided exemplars/cases from their own experiences, and their reviews of the literature. Six themes were discussed: ( a ) "culturally defined"; ( b ) "professionally contextualized"; ( c ) "teaching research integrity and research practice"; ( d ) "with mutual respect and care"; ( e ) "based on effective communication"; and ( f ) "supported by institutional and governmental commitment and infrastructure.

[Role Function and Policy Prospects of Long-Term Care Nurses in Taiwan: Evidence-Based Policy Recommendations of Professional Nursing Organizations].

Professional nursing organizations represent an important channel for the nursing profession to influence health policy, represent and protect the interests of nurses, and advocate for the further development of the profession. Facing the rapidly increasing aging population and emerging needs of long-term care in Taiwan, the Taiwan Nurses Association launched an integrated project to propose policy advice on the development of nursing in long-term care. In this paper, the relevant findings in the domestic and foreign literature are summarized to better define the role function and core competence of long-term care nurses.

Competency and Related Factors in Preventing Emerging Infectious Diseases among Nurses in Long-Term Care Facilities in Taiwan.

Emerging infectious diseases (EIDs) are a considerable threat to health, particularly in long-term care facilities (LTCFs), where residents are especially vulnerable. Nurses' competency in EID prevention is crucial to minimize the adverse effects of EIDs in LTCFs. This study investigated nurses' competency and related factors in EID prevention in LTCFs in Tainan, Taiwan.

Association between Chronic Disease Self-Management, Health Status, and Quality of Life in Older Taiwanese Adults with Chronic Illnesses.

Unlabelled: Aging is accompanied by many chronic comorbidities and disabilities, and entails medical expenses, which affects the quality of life among older adults. The purpose of this study was to investigate whether the health status of older adults with chronic diseases mediates chronic disease self-management to predict quality of life.

Methods: This research adopted a cross-sectional correlation study design.

[Reflections on the Prospective Professional Competency of Taiwan Public Health Nurses].

Societal ageing, the rising prevalence of chronic diseases, and the COVID-19 pandemic have changed the global healthcare environment dramatically. These challenges have significantly burdened community medical and healthcare systems and complicated the work of public health nursing. As an important care provider on the frontlines of primary care, public health nurses (PHNs) must keep up with the current state of the medical environment and statistical data interpretation, scientific data translation, community resource sharing, and telehealth applications.

COVID-19 and nursing research across five countries/regions: Commonalities and recommendations.

With the recent impact by the COVID-19 pandemic, nursing research has gone through unexpected changes across the globe. The purpose of this special report is to present the commonalities in the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on nursing research across four countries, including the United States, South Korea, Japan, and Taiwan, and one region, that is, Hong Kong, and to make recommendations for future nursing research during the immediate postpandemic period and future pandemic situations. To identify the commonalities, seven researchers/leaders from the five countries/regions had discussions through 3 days of an international workshop.

Factors affecting preregistered nurses' willingness to serve in geriatric long-term care.

Aim: Rapidly ageing population leads to increased demands for long-term care. Taiwan's preparation for its ageing population focuses on engaging healthcare professionals. This study explored pre-registered nurses' current knowledge, experience in geriatric long-term care (GLTC) and willingness to serve in GLTC.

Mechanisms and Effects of Health Coaching in Patients With Early-Stage Chronic Kidney Disease: A Randomized Controlled Trial.

Purpose: To examine the effects of health coaching on self-management and quality of life (QOL) in patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) and to evaluate whether self-efficacy and patient activation mediate the effect of health coaching on self-management and QOL.

Design And Methods: A single-center, parallel-group, randomized controlled trial. A total of 108 patients with stages 1 to 3a CKD participated in the study.

Use of photo diary and focus group to explore needs for digital disease management program among community older adults with chronic disease.

As technology advanced, new e-health solutions are evolved to empower people to manage their care at home. This study explored the needs for disease management in activity tracking using photo diary through older adults' subjective perspective. It further aimed to suggest which lifestyle measures, symptoms and behaviours would be meaningful to include in such a digital diseases care management program for technology design.

Living alone, loneliness, and depressive symptoms among Indonesian older women.

In this study, the researchers aimed to investigate the factors associated with loneliness and depressive symptoms among Indonesian older women. A secondary data analysis of the Indonesian Family Life Survey-5 was conducted. Data from 1233 women aged 60 years or above were analyzed using logistic regression.

Psychometric Testing of an Indonesian-Version Diabetes Self-Management Instrument.

Background: Self-management is one of the vital elements in diabetes management for adults with Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). Although the number of people with T2DM in Indonesia has risen, clinical understanding of the problems related to practicing diabetes self-management (DSM) is limited because of the lack of a valid measurement instrument. The 35-item Diabetes Self-Management Instrument (DSMI-35) is one instrument widely used in research to assess DSM-related behavior among patients with diabetes.