SynthesisJournal of nursing management2026
Exploring the Concept of Nurses' Healthcare Policy Competence: A Systematic Review and Qualitative Meta-Synthesis.
Synthesis in Journal of nursing management, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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- Exploring the Concept of Nurses' Healthcare Policy Competence: A Systematic Review and Qualitative Meta-Synthesis.Journal of nursing management · 2026Pooled it
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Abstract
backgroundNurses' competence in healthcare policy is crucial for policy intervention to strengthen public health equity and resolve health problems through healthcare policy reforms. Previous studies conducted systematic reviews, scoping reviews, or meta-syntheses related to the political competence of nurses, factors affecting nurses' policy interventions, and barriers and facilitators of policy intervention, but the concept of healthcare policy competence was not examined.
aimThis study explored nurses' competence in healthcare policy through a systematic review and meta-synthesis of previous qualitative studies.
methodsA systematic review of English-language journal articles in databases including Medline, Embase, PubMed, CINAHL, Web of Science, and Scopus published up to December 31, 2023, generated 17,810 identified articles, of which 27 individual studies were used for analysis. Researchers with rich experiences in healthcare policy interventions and qualitative research analysis extracted data using ATLAS.ti and meta-synthesized it.
resultsNurses' competence in healthcare policy was synthesized into five factors: intrinsic motivation, healthcare expertise, policy development, political skills, and policy intervention. Fifteen themes and 34 subthemes were derived as subattributes.
conclusionsThis study provides a conceptual framework for nurses' competence in healthcare policy and for developing political or policy education or programs to strengthen this competence.
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