From workforce pressures to evolving care models, frontline research is driving change in how patient care is delivered. Here, we spotlight timely studies and expert insights shaping nursing practice, care delivery, and patient outcomes across healthcare settings.

For journalists focused on care delivery and health systems, these updates reveal how shifts at the bedside are influencing broader system performance.

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Featured Articles About Nursing & Patient Care

About the Research Featured

The research highlighted on this page represents peer-reviewed advances in nursing practice, patient care, healthcare delivery, and clinical outcomes, published across the Lippincott® Journals portfolio. Spanning topics including workforce challenges, perioperative care, aging populations, primary care, maternal and infant health, and patient safety, these studies provide evidence that informs frontline care and supports better outcomes across healthcare settings.

Together, these studies demonstrate how evidence-based nursing and patient-centered care strategies improve healthcare quality, safety, and clinical outcomes, while addressing some of the most pressing challenges facing healthcare systems today.

Clinical and Real-World Impact

This month’s featured research examines how staffing, clinical training, and patient-centered strategies influence care quality and outcomes across healthcare settings. From nurse understaffing and team-based simulation to pain burden, care for older kidney transplant recipients, and symptom management after cesarean delivery, these studies highlight critical factors shaping the patient experience and delivery of care.

Spanning nursing, hospital care, transplantation, pain management, simulation, and perioperative care, this research provides evidence-based insights that can help healthcare professionals and health systems strengthen care delivery, support clinical teams, and improve patient outcomes.

Key Areas of Focus this Month

  • Nurse Staffing & Patient Outcomes: Research examines the relationship between nurse understaffing and patient outcomes in for-profit hospitals.
  • Clinical Team Training: Evidence explores how simulation-based team training can influence clinical performance and patient outcomes.
  • Pain & Hospital Care: A multi-country study examines the prevalence of severe pain among hospitalized patients across Africa.
  • Older Adult & Transplant Care: Research identifies predictors of early complications and clinical outcomes among kidney transplant recipients aged 65 and older.
  • Maternal & Perioperative Care: A randomized trial compares first-line approaches to managing nausea and vomiting after cesarean delivery.
  • Quality & Patient-Centered Care: Studies highlight how staffing, teamwork, clinical decision-making, and targeted interventions can influence safety, recovery, and care outcomes.

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