ArticleBMC nursing2025
Invisible nursing care: a concept analysis.
Article in BMC nursing, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.
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- Barriers, Facilitators, and Strategies for Sustaining the Hospital-Wide "One Bed" Model in China: A Single-Centre Descriptive Qualitative Study of Healthcare Professionals' Perspectives.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Reframing Person-Centered Fundamental Care in the Age of Artificial Intelligence, Robotics and Posthumanization: A Theory-Informed Narrative Review.Journal of multidisciplinary healthcare · 2026Review
- Empathy as a Conditional Resource: System-Level Moral Distress as an Indirect Pathway in the Associations of Empathy with Burnout and Turnover Intention.Journal of nursing management · 2026Article
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Abstract
backgroundInvisible nursing care comprises essential nursing actions that are often unrecognized and undocumented, such as emotional support, empathetic presence, and preserving patient dignity. Despite their importance, these aspects are mostly overshadowed by technical tasks and lack clear conceptualization in nursing theory and practice.
methodsUsing Walker and Avant’s concept analysis approach, this study systematically reviewed literature from PubMed, Scopus, CINAHL, Web of Science, and Google Scholar up to April 2025. Out of 352 records, 15 relevant articles were analyzed to clarify the attributes, antecedents, and consequences of invisible nursing care.
resultsThe analysis showed that the defining attributes of invisible nursing care are empathy and compassion, unseen and intangible nature, holistic focus, and personalized and contextual, Continuous and rationality, and non-technical and non-formalized. Key antecedents include nursing values and ethics, holistic education, patient vulnerability, organizational support, and nurses’ emotional resilience. Consequences involve better patient psychological well-being, stronger nurse–patient relationships, holistic recovery, higher job satisfaction, recognition challenges, and potential improvement in healthcare quality. Instruments such as the PINC-H questionnaire help measure these hidden aspects.
conclusionInvisible nursing care is a vital, multidimensional aspect of patient-centered nursing. Its recognition and integration into education, practice, and policy can enhance outcomes and professional fulfillment, while future research should focus on improving measurement tools to strengthen its visibility and value.
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