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609 unresolved questions extracted from the limitations and future-work sections of 5,486 Nursing education and management papers in our library. Each links back to the study that raised it.

What the literature leaves open

  • The study identifies the challenge of reducing nurse turnover intention, which is a significant problem globally. The complexity of the relationships between organizational support, psychological resilience, change fatigue, and turnover intention is a challenge. The need to develop effective interventions to reduce turnover intention is a challenge.

    The effect of nurses’ organizational support on turnover intention: the chain-mediating role of psychological resilience and change fatigue · 2025 · DOI

  • Further studies could investigate the effects of organizational support on turnover intention in different contexts. Research could explore the impact of other factors on the relationship between organizational support and turnover intention. Studies could examine the longitudinal effects of organizational support on nurses' turnover intention.

    The effect of nurses’ organizational support on turnover intention: the chain-mediating role of psychological resilience and change fatigue · 2025 · DOI

  • The limited understanding of the relationship between organizational trust and voice behavior among NICU nurses. The lack of research on the mediating role of career resilience in this relationship.

    The relationship between organizational trust and voice behavior among neonatal intensive care unit nurses in tertiary A hospitals in Sichuan Province: the mediating role of career resilience · 2024 · DOI

  • Research on psychological empowerment interventions for nurses is still in the developmental phase. There is a need to investigate the effectiveness of interventions in promoting psychological empowerment among nurses.

    Interventions to support the psychological empowerment of nurses: a scoping review · 2024 · DOI

  • However, few studies have comprehensively examined the associations between turnover intention and nurses' individual and team-level resources within a multilevel framework.

    Associations of Individual and Team‐Level Resources With Turnover Intention in Nurses: A Multilevel Analysis · 2026 · DOI

  • Future research should focus on developing and rigorously evaluating multifaceted intervention programmes that address these systemic factors.

    Recommendations for the Support of Clinical Facilitators' Mental Well‐Being in Undergraduate Health Professions Education: A Scoping Review · 2026 · DOI

  • Psychological empowerment has been identified as a key factor influencing nurses' attitudes and work‐related behaviors, yet the evidence on how it relates to job embeddedness among nurses working in the early phase of UHI implementation in Egypt remains underexplored.

    Toward Health System Reform: Unveiling the Relationship Between Nurses' Psychological Empowerment and Job Embeddedness Under the Umbrella of the New Universal Health Insurance System · 2026 · DOI

  • Despite their importance, limited research has examined the factors influencing MNMs' competencies, particularly the interplay between individual and organizational determinants.

    The moderating role of self‐efficacy in influencing the level of competencies among Middle Nurse Managers: A cross‐sectional study · 2026 · DOI

  • However, the scope and maturity of nursing theoretical contributions in Italy remain unclear.

    Italian Contributions to Nursing Theory · 2026 · DOI

  • Despite extensive research on mentorship, few studies have addressed its role in the Arab cultural context.

    Mentor’s Perspective on Structured Clinical Mentoring in the Arab Context. · 2026 · DOI

  • CLINICAL RELEVANCE: Our results are globally relevant as they contribute to the limited evidence available on this topic in home care settings.

    Predictors of Nurses' Job Satisfaction in Home Care Settings: Findings From the AIDOMUS‐IT Study · 2025 · DOI

  • Despite its significance, limited research explores the lived experiences and perspectives of stakeholders, including academic nurse educators, administrators, students, and alumni-engaged in accreditation.

    Voices on academic accreditation: lived experiences of nurse educators, administrators, students, and alumni in nursing education · 2025 · DOI

  • Future research should investigate accreditation's long-term impact through longitudinal and multi-site studies to broaden understanding and enhance the generalizability of findings in nursing education contexts worldwide.

    Voices on academic accreditation: lived experiences of nurse educators, administrators, students, and alumni in nursing education · 2025 · DOI

  • However, there are limited studies exploring innovative behaviours, influencing factors and educational requirements of nursing postgraduates.

    Nursing postgraduates’ innovative behaviour, influencing factors and educational requirements: a national cross-sectional study · 2025 · DOI

  • Following the identified gap in the literature, this qualitative study aims to analyze what motivated nursing students to choose nursing as their field of study and whether they still plan to pursue it after graduation, including the factors influencing their intentions.

    Why do young people choose nursing as their future profession? – a qualitative study on polish nursing students’ motivating factors to apply to nursing and work in the profession after graduation · 2025 · DOI

  • Academic advising can potentially buffer these effects, yet its role during transitional periods remains underexplored in the Saudi context.

    Psychological distress, self-efficacy, and academic advising among Saudi nursing students during academic reform: a mixed-methods study · 2025 · DOI

  • Although self-other discrepancies are reported in medicine and allied health, domain-specific patterns early in nursing training remain underexplored.

    Competency development in early nursing training: a cross-sectional OSCE study of self-assessment versus examiner ratings · 2025 · DOI

  • It highlights significant gaps in the literature and the urgent need for tailored support strategies.

    Navigating the storm: a scoping review of support strategies for postgraduate nursing students with probable anxiety and depression in South Africa · 2025 · DOI

  • BACKGROUND: Clinical learning environments (CLEs) play a vital role in shaping nursing students' competencies, yet their dynamics in conflict-affected settings remain underexplored.

    Clinical learning environments and experiences of nursing students in West Bank Universities: A mixed-methods study · 2025 · DOI

  • Further research on the experience, barriers, benefits and implementation of midwifery professional development should be considered.

    Early career midwives’ experiences of development opportunities and their relation to retention and job satisfaction: an interpretative phenomenological analysis study · 2025 · DOI

  • RESULTS: The early career Band 6 midwives perceived there to be few development opportunities, limited by a lack of awareness and access, and development opportunities were reported to strongly relate to the participants' job satisfaction and career progression.

    Early career midwives’ experiences of development opportunities and their relation to retention and job satisfaction: an interpretative phenomenological analysis study · 2025 · DOI

  • Future research should focus on retention strategies in Low- and Middle-Income Countries and explore the impact of technological innovations and robotization to align nurses' retention with the evolving healthcare landscape.

    The race to retain nursing workforce in healthcare: an umbrella review of effectiveness of retention interventions and strategies · 2025 · DOI

  • While considerable knowledge exists regarding the organizational factors that elicit job satisfaction, limited research has been conducted on personal factors.

    Evaluation and selection of the highest personal factor of nurses’ job satisfaction by applying analytical network process methods · 2025 · DOI

  • However, we would like to highlight some additional limitations that warrant further investigation.

    Missed nursing care: Expanding the research scope for a comprehensive understanding · 2024 · DOI

  • Second, the study focused on a limited set of factors, while other potential influencers, such as nurse characteristics and team dynamics, were not explored (Riman et al.

    Missed nursing care: Expanding the research scope for a comprehensive understanding · 2024 · DOI

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