TheJournal of Nursing Research is committed to publishing articles addressing nursing knowledge that reflects and underscores the unique nature of the nursing profession. The present issue includes 3 qualitative and 6 quantitative studies covering the perspectives of patients, families, and nurses and examining both healthy and unhealthy populations.
The two intervention studies in the present issue respectively used white noise and auricular acupressure as interventions to improve symptoms in participants (Lin et al.; Chueh et al.). The two interventions incorporated into nursing care regimens knowledge drawn from complementary and alternative medicine, representing the broad-based and relentless efforts of nurses to further improve the quality of human life.
Nursing is widely recognized as a highly demanding career. The reconstruction of the moral distress model for nurses (Ko et al.) and the validation of a Turkish version of the Job Performance Scale (Harmanci Seren et al.) shed light on the complexity of nursing work and provide a theoretical basis for improving work performance.
The international qualitative studies in this issue on Filipino fathers (Villamor et al.) and on mental health service users in the UK (Walker) both emphasize the importance of considering clients' viewpoints rather than just the viewpoints of healthcare providers in order to design more client-centered healthcare.
The 2 cross-sectional surveys in the present issue examine, respectively, risk and protective factors for hypoglycemia among patients with diabetes (Wu et al.) and peer victimization among adolescent students (Huang et al.). Finally, the prospective follow-up study used symptom clusters to predict event-free survival among patients with heart failure (Huang et al.).
The studies in this issue elucidate the efforts of nurses to provide family-centered care, to improve client quality of life, and to enhance the quality of nursing care. I would like to thank the authors and reviewers who contributed to these works. I hope that all who read this issue will feel as encouraged as I do and will consider submitting your work to The Journal of Nursing Research.
Li-Yin Chien
The editor declares no conflicts of interest.
doi:10.1097/jnr.0000000000000261