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Purpose: To examine the presence and appropriate usage of the statistical assumptions in nursing journals that have an impact factor. Methods: Using a retrospective exploratory design, 90 studies were examined. All the selected papers are classified by the Institute for Scientific Information and have an impact factor. The reviewed papers were distributed equally over the years 2005, 2010, and 2015. Results: More than half of the examined studies did not report any testing for the statistical assumptions. Even more, the percentage of the journals that did not report the statistical assumptions were the ones with the highest impact factor. Conclusion: The findings of this study will contribute in the direction of professional development by increasing the awareness of the importance of explicit reporting the statistical assumptions appropriately and adequately in the published nursing research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Purpose: To explore the lived experiences of nurses’ feelings, emotions, grief reactions, and coping mechanisms following their patients’ death. Background: On a daily basis, nurses are experiencing patients’ death, which exposes them to grief. Nurses’ grief has not been sufficiently addressed in practice settings, although it has been a well-known threat to health and work performance. Design: A qualitative design guided by a phenomenological approach was adopted. Method: Data were collected from a purposive sample of 21 Jordanian nurses by conducting three focus groups and analyzed using Colaizzi’s framework. Findings: Four themes were generated in which participants reported feelings of grief following their patients’ death. Their grief emotions were reported as sadness, crying, anger, shock, denial, faith, fear, guilt, fear of the family’s reaction, and powerlessness. Conclusions: The study provided evidence that nurses respond emotionally to patients’ death and experience grief. Nurses are burdened by recurrent patients’ deaths and try to cope and overcome their grief. This study emphasizes the importance of developing strategies to help nurses positively cope with their grief from a holistic perspective. This will reflect positively on the nurses’ performance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]