This study explored the challenges and strengths shaping Latine families' experiences of pediatric loss in the United States context. Eighteen semistructured interviews with healthcare providers (n = 7) and bereaved Latine caregivers (n = 11) were carried out using an integrated qualitative descriptive and Liberation Psychology approach. Four themes emerged that are heavily shaped by individual and contextual factors: (1) Unsupportive and hegemonic systems, (2) caregiver and provider discordance regarding end-of-life care, (3) caregiver identity transcendence in the "natural distress of grief," and (4) supportive networks and their limitations. Results highlight sociocultural realities that inform needed structural, policy, and practice changes.

This article examines nursing professionalization in the Republic of Korea in light of two Korean laws enacted in 2024: the Nursing Act and legislation on integrated community care. Drawing on nursing professionalism and sociology of professions literature, we distinguish professionalism-the identity, knowledge, values, clinical judgment, ethics, and accountability constituting nursing practice-from professionalization, the institutional process through which nursing work gains jurisdiction, authority, legal protection, reimbursement, and social legitimacy. The Korean case shows that legal recognition creates visibility but does not by itself produce professional authority. Nursing role development in Korea is shaped by population aging, chronic illness, community-care demand, physician-delegated medical support tasks, cost-containment pressures, uneven workforce distribution, and weak reimbursement for nursing services. We argue that professionalization requires more than role expansion: it requires scope and role standards, education-credentialing alignment, legal authority and accountability, reimbursement mechanisms, nurse-led community models, and academic-practice-policy governance. The Korean case offers a theoretically useful example of the gap between statutory recognition and institutionalized professional authority.

Guided by Mishel theory of uncertainty in illness, this cross-sectional study examined relationships between uncertainty and psychological distress among 300 Taiwanese patients with atrial fibrillation (AF). The instruments included the Brief Illness Perception Questionnaire, Symptom Frequency Subscale of the Symptom Checklist-Frequency and Severity, Medical Outcomes Study Social Support Survey, AF Knowledge Scale, Mishel Uncertainty-in-Illness Scale, and Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale. Path analysis examined the relationships among uncertainty, psychological distress, and related variables. Findings suggest that enhancing social support and AF knowledge through nursing interventions may help reduce uncertainty and psychological distress.

Children undergoing surgery experience heightened relational vulnerability associated with separation, loss of control, bodily exposure, and transitions of consciousness. The Pediatric Perioperative Relational Safety Theory advances a middle-range nursing theory that conceptualizes relational safety as a dynamic, nurse-mediated process co-constructed among nurses, children, and families across perioperative phases. Five interrelated constructs - Congruent Communication, Integrated Parental Presence, Supported Child Agency, Protected Personal Integrity, and Transitional Continuity - specify modifiable relational mechanisms. Nine propositions articulate pathways linking these mechanisms to proximal perioperative responses and longer-term psychosocial trajectories. The Pediatric Perioperative Relational Safety Theory positions relational safety as a central nursing safety function, extending and integrating perioperative theory, research, and practice.

Postsentence treatment for persons convicted of sexual offenses is a legally complex and socially stigmatized care setting in which nursing and interprofessional practice must address treatment, safety, rehabilitation, and public protection. However, little is known about the everyday experiences of staff working in these units. This preliminary qualitative study examined frontline workers' experiences in a postsentence treatment unit in Taiwan and explored their implications for nursing knowledge, staff safety, and interprofessional practice. Four focus group interviews were conducted with 21 staff members, including nurses, therapists, a social worker, and security personnel. Data were analyzed using thematic analysis. Five themes were identified: entering an unfamiliar field of care; caring under conditions of legal oversight; negotiating gendered safety and professional boundaries; absorbing invisible emotional and moral labor; and building interprofessional care in the presence of structural gaps. Findings show that postsentence treatment requires more than general psychiatric nursing knowledge. Staff must develop legal awareness, boundary work, emotional regulation, ethical judgment, gender-sensitive safety practices, and team-based risk interpretation. Nurses' daily observations of behavior, interpersonal boundaries, medication effects, emotional responses, and interaction patterns represent important but often underrecognized clinical knowledge. Strengthening this area of practice requires structured education, clear safety protocols, legal and psychological support, interprofessional documentation systems, competency standards, and policy recognition. Making this work visible is essential to advancing forensic psychiatric nursing and building humane, safe, and sustainable postsentence treatment systems.

Type 2 diabetes requires sustained management of metabolic risk and psychosocial distress. This quasi-experimental pretest-post-test study evaluated a 12-week, group-based yoga intervention embedded in outpatient care. Adults with type 2 diabetes received either yoga plus routine care or routine care alone. The yoga group showed significant improvements in glycated hemoglobin (P = .043), high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (P = .012), and depressive symptoms; post-test depression scores were lower than in the control group (P = .005). Group-based yoga may offer a low-equipment, relational nursing intervention for sustainable chronic illness care.

This qualitative study examined self-care experiences and influencing factors among patients undergoing hemodialysis in Ghana using the Middle-Range Theory of Self-Care of Chronic Illness. Fourteen participants were interviewed on self-care practices. Thematic analysis revealed 12 themes reflecting the theory's components. Patients were on hemodialysis for at least 3 months. Self-care maintenance included rest and recovery, fluid and dietary practices. Monitoring included self-monitoring and reporting, and monitoring at the hospital. Management included care evaluation and modification. Influencing factors were barriers to self-care, support systems, sociodemographics, and clinical/health-related. Findings suggest nurses and health care workers should address these factors through tailored interventions.

Marginalization in nursing education is widely recognized but often measured using unidimensional indicators that limit understanding of its complexity. To examine the multidimensional structure of marginalization and differences across academic stages and identity groups using the Englund Marginality Index. Cross-sectional analysis of a national sample of undergraduate students, graduate students, and faculty (N = 10 095) using repeated-measures multivariate analysis of variance to examine domain-level differences and interactions. Marginalization varied across domains, differed by academic stage, and showed the strongest effects for race and language status. Marginalization is multidimensional and restructured across contexts, supporting domain-level approaches to understanding inequity.

This descriptive survey study examined nursing professionalism, compassion competence, and factors influencing the happiness index among shift-working nurses based on Authentic Happiness Theory. Data were collected from 208 nurses at a university hospital in Seoul and analyzed using descriptive statistics, correlation analysis, and multiple regression. The happiness index was significantly associated with nursing professionalism and compassion competence, which were also positively correlated. Nursing professionalism, compassion competence, gender, and marital status were identified as significant predictors of the happiness index, explaining 37% of the variance.

Mothers of preterm infants experience sustained stress during neonatal intensive care unit hospitalization and the transition to home. Feeding represents one of the earliest caregiving contexts in which maternal stress and infant regulatory capacity converge, yet these processes are typically examined separately. This article proposes the stress-feeding model, an integrated biopsychosocial framework linking maternal stress appraisal, feeding behavior, infant physiological and behavioral regulation, and feedback to maternal perceived competence. The model conceptualizes feeding as a recurring regulatory micro-context and delineates recursive pathways through which maternal appraisal, caregiving behavior, and infant responses shape dyadic regulation. The framework generates testable propositions to guide research and nurse-led interventions.

This study examined participant perceptions and engagement with SIMPLE HEALTH, a 12-week mobile technology-based workplace health promotion program designed for sedentary employees. Using a mixed-methods process evaluation, we examined usability, acceptability, interaction with its components, perceived benefits, and implementation fidelity. Participants reported positive experiences with the platform's design, tailored features, and supportive elements, along with suggestions for enhancement. All scheduled program elements were delivered as intended. Findings offer insights for optimizing multicomponent digital health programs in workplaces and highlight opportunities for occupational health professionals to adapt and scale such programs to promote healthier and more supportive workplace environments.