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To synthesize available evidence about core competencies for nurses engaged in palliative care.
A scoping review conducted according to the framework from Joanna Briggs Institute.
The Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses extension for Scoping Reviews checklist was adopted to report this scoping review. The PubMed, Web of Science, Embase, ScienceDriect, CNKI, WangFang, VIP and Sinomed databases were used to systematically search for published studies from their inception to December 2023. Two researchers independently screened and selected relevant studies and performed the data charting.
Twenty-six studies were included in this scoping review. Among these, 14 studies identified core competency assessment instruments among nurses engaged in palliative care, with the Palliative Care Core Competence Questionnaire was used most frequently; 13 studies investigated the status of core competencies of nurses engaged in palliative care, the majority of included studies indicated that nurse's core competencies were at moderate levels; 11 studies explored the factors influencing the core competencies of the nurses engaged in palliative care, which were classified as sociodemographic-related factors, palliative care education-related factors, death attitude, palliative care practice-related experience and others.
This scoping review offers a comprehensive overview of the current landscape of core competencies among nurses in palliative care. Findings suggested that the clinical nursing leaders need to develop tailored strategies and interventions to address specific factors and promote the continuous development of nurses' competencies in palliative care.
Core competency assessment instruments equip nurses and healthcare organizations with a range of validated tools for evaluating their proficiency in palliative care. Targeted core competency enhancement programmes need to be developed to foster a nursing workforce better equipped to improve the quality of life of end-of-life patients and their families.
No patient or public contribution.
To systematically evaluate the effects of quality nursing interventions on surgical site wound infections (SSWI), length of stay in the hospital and postoperative complications in patients with colorectal stomas. A search was conducted on Embase, PubMed, Cochrane Library, Web of Science, Wanfang and China National Knowledge Infrastructure databases to retrieve publicly available data from the construction of the database until September 2023 in randomised controlled trials (RCTs) evaluating the effects of applying quality nursing in patients with colorectal cancer (CRC) stoma surgery. Two authors independently performed literature screening, data extraction and quality assessment. Stata 17.0 was applied for our meta-analysis. Fifteen RCTs with 1186 patients, with 593 patients in each of the quality nursing and control groups, were included. Meta-analysis revealed that compared with the control group, the incidence of SSWI (odds ratio [OR] = 0.34, 95% confidence intervals [CI]: 0.21–0.54, p < 0.001) and postoperative complications (OR = 0.2, 95% CI: 0.16–0.30, p < 0.001) in the quality nursing group were significantly reduced, and the length of stay in the hospital was significantly shorter (standardised mean difference = −1.12, 95% CI: −1.42 to −0.82, p < 0.001). The application of quality nursing interventions after CRC stoma surgery is effective in reducing the incidence of SSWI and postoperative complications and can also shorten hospital stays.
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