Literature review on the “Nursing care practices”

Abstract

This study aimed to clarify how “Nursing care practices” is used based on descriptions in the existing literature and to explore the phenomenon of “Nursing care practices” as to how the term is used. We identified 33 target studies from Ichushi-Web. Qualitative descriptive analysis of the subject studies revealed the following categories: 1)10 describing the phenomena, contents, and characteristics of “Nursing care practices”; 2)6 describing the phenomena and situations before “Nursing care practices”; and 3)7 describing events that continue to appear in “Nursing care practices”. The relationships among the extracted categories can be drawn as a structural diagram. It was inferred that the extracted categories were cyclical in nature.