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. 2022 May;9(3):1575-1588.
doi: 10.1002/nop2.938. Epub 2021 May 22.

Current trends in global nursing: A scoping review

Hiroko Yatsu  1 , Akari Saeki  2
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Current trends in global nursing: A scoping review

Hiroko Yatsu et al. Nurs Open. 2022 May.

Abstract

Aim: This review aimed to elucidate research trends in global nursing in international literature.

Design: A scoping literature review of the PRISMA was used to guide the review.

Methods: PubMed was used to search for English articles published in academic journals between 2016-2018. The search keywords were "global/international/world nursing." We used thematic synthesis to analyse and interpret the data and generated topics for global nursing literature.

Results: In total, 133 articles were analysed. Six topics emerged: (a) conceptualization of global nursing, (b) environmental health, (c) infectious diseases, (d) security efforts, (e) global shortage of nursing personnel and (f) diversification of study abroad programmes. The results of this review reflect today's serious international health, labour and global environmental issues. Based on these latest global nursing topics, it is necessary to develop new strategies, nursing models and environment-related theories to create and maintain a healthy environment.

Keywords: environmental health; global health; global nursing; integrative literature review; nursing education; scoping review.

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Selection process of papers for review (PRISMA 2009 flow diagram)
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The numbers of authors at each region where their affiliated facilities were located (N = 478)
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The number of the papers in literature area (N = 234*) *This number shows that 45 and 28 papers out of 133 articles have two and three topics, respectively
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