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Aim: To explore whether self-efficacy has any positive or negative mediating effects between family functioning and quality of life among elders with chronic diseases., Design: A cross-sectional study., Methods: Questionnaires were collected from 516 community-dwelling elderly individuals with chronic diseases using a convenience sampling method. The questionnaires included the Self-efficacy for Managing Chronic Disease Six-Item Scale, the Family Adaptation Partnership Growth Affection Resolve Index and the MOS 36-Item Short Form Health Survey., Results: Family functioning and self-efficacy impacted the quality of life of community-dwelling elderly individuals with chronic diseases. Family functioning was mediated by self-efficacy and had an indirect impact on quality of life. The mediating effect accounted for 62.50% of the total effect., (© 2021 The Authors. Nursing Open published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd.)

Aim: The study was to explore the significant influence of an English nursing course in nursing postgraduate internationalization education., Design: A cross-sectional study., Method: The research object included three grades (a total of 18) of nursing postgraduate students in the Nursing School of Yangzhou University. A standardized four-section questionnaire designed by the authors was applied to the survey., Results: 88.89% were satisfied with the course design and application of the English nursing course, and the scores for all 6 items were above the average, but only 44.4% of the postgraduate students understood the course completely. In teaching design and content aspect, 88.9%-94.4% postgraduate nurses felt that the course learning requirements were clear and could improve their knowledge and capacity for scientific research. All of the postgraduate nurses were identified with the teacher's moral and academic characters., Conclusions: To establish English nursing courses for nursing postgraduate students is beneficial for postgraduate internationalization education., Competing Interests: The authors declare no conflict of interest., (© 2020 The Authors. Nursing Open published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd.)