ReviewNursing open2023
The nurses' touch: An irreplaceable component of caring.
Review in Nursing open, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.
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9 citing papers in PubMed, 26 citations in OpenAlex.
- Generative AI at the Bedside: An Integrative Review of Applications and Implications in Clinical Nursing Practice.Journal of clinical nursing · 2026Review
- What really matters to older adults in life and treatment: a qualitative study on the role of connectedness in person-centered care.BMC geriatrics · 2026Article
- Remotely Monitored Patients' Experiences of the Interpersonal Patient-Nurse Relationship: A Scoping Review.Scandinavian journal of caring sciences · 2025Article
- Beyond Competency: Developing Critical Digital Capabilities in Nursing Students Through Freirean Pedagogy.Nursing inquiry · 2025Article
- Development and validation of the nurses' touch comfort evaluation scale in China.BMC nursing · 2025Article
- Advancing Clinical Practice: The Potential of Multimodal Technology in Modern Medicine.Journal of clinical medicine · 2024Article
- Semi-autonomous touch method merging robot's autonomous touch and user-operated touch for improving user experience in robot touch.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- The nurses' touch: An irreplaceable component of caring.Nursing open · 2023Review
- Toward successful eHealth adoption in long-term care: Insights from a national survey of healthcare professionals.Digital healthArticle
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Authors and funding
3 authors at 3 institutions in 3 countries.
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Abstract
backgroundTouch is an integral part of human interaction. Health care makes significant use of touch, and for most healthcare professionals, it is indispensable to their practice. An essential and inevitable facet of the nursing profession is the touching of patients during the provision of care. Unfortunately, touch is seldom considered in the nursing framework today.
aimsTo emphasize the importance of touch in contemporary nursing practice in a highly technological environment. MATERIALS AND
methodsA search was conducted on February-May 2022. The initial search identified 84 articles and the final analysis included 38 articles that met the inclusion criteria (touch; touch in health care; touch and nursing; touch and technology; nursing and technology; nursing and caring; touch and caring).
resultsThe nurses' touch will always be an irreplaceable component of caring in nursing. DISCUSSION: There can be no substitute to the expressive touch of a nurse. As the technological revolution in nursing is inevitable, it is imperative that nurses consider how much these technologies impact the nurse-patient relationships.
conclusionThe study emphasized the importance of touch in contemporary nursing practice. The study found that the nurses' touch will always be an irreplaceable component of caring in nursing. The finding will have an impact on nurses and patients situated in highly technological healthcare environments.
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