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ReviewJournal of nursing management2026

Nursing Workforce Preparedness and Resilience in Health Emergencies (2000-2025): A Bibliometric Review of Thematic Evolution and Emerging Hotspots.

Walton Wider, Muhammad Aledeh, Laís Cibely Dos Reis Prazeres Feitosa, Erica Jeronimo Da Costa, Thiago F Santos, Alex S Borromeo

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Review 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.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Walton WiderFaculty of Business and Communications, INTI International University, Nilai, Negeri Sembilan, Malaysia, newinti.edu.my.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0369-4082
Muhammad AledehDepartment of Psychiatry, Wiener Gesundheitsverbund, Klinik Donaustadt, Vienna, Austria.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6831-9005
Laís Cibely Dos Reis Prazeres FeitosaUniversidade do Grande Rio (UNIGRANRIO Afya), Duque de Caxias, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Erica Jeronimo Da CostaCentro Universitário FACEX (UNIFACEX), Natal, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil.
Thiago F SantosPostgraduate Program in Chemical Engineering, Technology Center, Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Natal, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil, ufrn.br.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0791-2059
Alex S BorromeoDepartment of Nursing, College of Nursing, Bulacan State University, City of Malolos, Bulacan, Philippines.ORCID https://orcid.org/0009-0009-0794-6847

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

aimTo map research on nursing workforce preparedness and resilience in health emergencies from 2000 to 2025 and propose an integrated framework.

designBibliometric review with science mapping and thematic evolution.

methodsScopus was searched for journal articles and reviews on nursing workforce preparedness and resilience in health emergencies published from 2000 to 2025. Records were screened using year, language, document type, duplicate title, and metadata-based scope criteria. Co-citation and co-word analyses were conducted to map intellectual foundations and conceptual structures. Time-sliced analysis examined thematic evolution across 2000-2009, 2010-2019, and 2020-2025, while emerging hotspots were identified using keyword growth and recency indicators.

resultsThe final retained corpus included 7570 documents, composed of 6950 articles and 620 reviews. Publication output showed a marked post-2020 surge. Co-citation analysis highlighted intellectual foundations related to disaster nursing competence, psychological resilience and mental health, leadership, staffing, safety, and workforce systems. Co-word analysis indicated major domains of clinical competence, emergency and acute-care delivery, pandemic-related psychological burden and resilience, workforce organization and emergency service capacity, and nursing education for disaster preparedness. Emerging hotspots included burnout, moral distress, resilience, telemedicine, mental health, and qualitative inquiry.

conclusionNursing workforce preparedness research has evolved into a multidimensional, system-oriented agenda that integrates competence, resilience, and structural readiness. IMPLICATIONS FOR NURSING MANAGEMENT: Nurse managers should treat emergency preparedness as a strategic workforce-management responsibility, not only as a clinical or disaster-planning task. The findings support competency-based preparedness training, workforce policies for surge staffing and role deployment, organizational capacity building, mental health and resilience supports, leadership preparation, safety infrastructure, and data-informed preparedness planning to sustain nursing performance during future health emergencies.

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Civil DefenseResilience, PsychologicalBibliometricsDisaster PlanningHumansbibliometric analysisdisaster preparednesshealth emergenciesnursing workforceworkforce preparedness

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PMID42527317
PMCPMC13420352

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