Annotated Bibliography: Nursing, Ethics, and Public Health Research

This annotated bibliography provides concise summaries of several research articles focusing on nursing, healthcare, and related ethical issues. The entries cover a range of topics, including the impact of nursing organization on patient experiences, the relationship between patient-centered care and perceived nursing quality, the influence of servant leadership on healthcare professionals, and the effects of information and communication technologies (ICT) on nursing care. Additional entries address the ethics of abortion and infanticide, the details of HIV infection, trends in adolescent pregnancy in the Philippines, and ethical considerations in pregnancy and childbirth. The bibliography also includes an APA formatted reference for the Responsible Parenthood and Reproductive Health Act of 2012. Each entry summarizes the study's objectives, methodology, key findings, and implications, offering a comprehensive overview of current research in these critical areas. The goal is to provide a resource for students and researchers to quickly understand the scope and findings of each study.

Annotated Bibliography (estimated of 150 words each)
Bruyneel, L., Li, B., Ausserhofer, D., Lesaffre, E., Dumitrescu, I., Smith, H. L., &
Sermeus, W. (2015). Organization of hospital nursing, provision of nursing care,
and patient experiences with care in Europe. Medical Care Research and
Review, 72(6), 643-664.
This research discusses previous findings of research into nursing outcomes. The study
claims that patient experiences are a vital part of the structure and process of nursing
care. The research found that leaving less clinical care activities undone and having
more bachelor-prepared nurses brings about more significant effects in patients
expressing nursing excellence. Patient experiences were found to be a strong indicator
of deficiencies in the nursing care process.
The research analyzed RN4CAST data in a cross-sectional design, where surveys were
collected from patients and nurses between 2009 and 2010 in eight countries. Nurses
gave data on nursing care, staff characteristics, their well-being, and their last shift,
while patients gave data on their encounter with hospital care.
The study concluded that there is a need for reinforcement in nursing management in order to
implement strategies that enhance quality care by allowing nurses to spend more time
directly caring for patients.
Edvardsson, D., Watt, E., & Pearce, F. (2017). Patient experiences of caring and person‐
centredness are associated with perceived nursing care quality. Journal of
Advanced Nursing, 73(1), 217-227.
The main objective of this study was to find out the association between patient’s ratings of
perceptions of the caring and person-centeredness, and perception of quality of
nursing care. The research employed a descriptive non-experimental correlational

method for data collection and analysis. A survey was used to collect self-report data
from patients. In addition, descriptive statistics we used together with hierarchical
linear regression and Pearson correlation.
The study discovered that there was a strong correlation between the patient’s perceptions of
person-centeredness and caring and the quality of nursing care. Therefore, assessing
health services and the quality of nursing care can be enhanced through inclusion of
self-report data from the patients about their experiences of care services. The
assessment data can also be used to improve the quality of care. The study also found
that factors such as communicable staff, environmental support and knowledge
impact patient’s perception of quality if nursing care.
Hanse, J. J., Harlin, U., Jarebrant, C., Ulin, K., & Winkel, J. (2016). The impact of
servant leadership dimensions on leader–member exchange among health care
professionals. Journal of nursing management, 24(2), 228-234.
This research aimed to examine the effect that servant leadership dimensions has on leader-
member exchange amongst healthcare professionals. A cross-sectional study that used
a questionnaire as the data collection tool was done in four hospital units where two
hundred and forty employees were study subjects. The study ran on the hypothesis
that support from leaders and the quality of dyadic leader-employee relationships are
significant in relation to the work environment and in determining the turn over
intentions in healthcare.
The results of the study revealed significant correlation between leader-member exchange
and all dimensions of servant leadership. However, the correlation between humility
and leader-member exchange was the strongest, followed by empowerment and
leader-member exchange. Roughly 50% of the variance in leader-member exchange

was covered by humility, stewardship and empowerment after a hierarchical
regression analysis was done.
The results of this study can be used to identify and develop servant leadership dimension
that allow development of stronger exchange relationships between leaders and
subordinates in a health care setting.
Rouleau, G., Gagnon, M. P., Côté, J., Payne-Gagnon, J., Hudson, E., & Dubois, C. A.
(2017). Impact of information and communication technologies on nursing care:
results of an overview of systematic reviews. Journal of medical Internet
research, 19(4), e122.
The objectives of this study included summarizing evidence from systematic reviews in
relation to effects of Information and Communication Technologies on nursing care,
and Finding out whether specific Information and Communication technologies, their
characteristics and their reason for use have any effect on nursing care. The research
considered four types of ICT commonly used by nurses that include computerized
decision support systems, communication systems, information systems and
management systems.
Since nurses make up the largest group among health care providers, use of ICT by nurses is
bound to have significant impact on nursing practice. The researchers claim that use
of ICT has the ability to improve the quality of care by promoting patient-centered
healthcare, and educate both patients and health care professionals. The review can
also serve as a starting point for other researchers that seek to compare and contrast
the positive and negative effects of ICT on nursing care.

Cherry, M. J. (2016). Sex, abortion, and infanticide: the gulf between the secular and
the divine. Christian Bioethics: Non-Ecumenical Studies In Medical
Morality, 17(1), 25-46.
This article investigates the main features of the gulf between the traditional bioethics within
Christianity and the secular moral reflections that govern contemporary bioethics.
Secular bioethics try to detach children from their parent’s authority and making them
more independent such that they have the authority to make their own choices
regarding sexual behaviors and lifestyle. The author gives the example of how the
conventional secular bioethics view extramarital sex acts among consenting adults as
morally permissible, which is in disagreement with traditional Christian morals. In
addition, they view abortion and infanticide as vital to women liberty. Instead of
establishing moral truths, secular bioethics usually promote an ideological perspective
that is culturally, socially and historically conditioned.
Deeks, S. G., Overbaugh, J., Phillips, A., & Buchbinder, S. (2015). HIV
infection. Nature reviews Disease primers, 1, 15035.
This article describes Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) infection in detail. The authors
state that globally, roughly thirty-seven million people are living with HIV, while
more than seventy-five million have been infected. When left untreated the virus
replicates within their host causing loss of CD4 T cells which in turn causes
abnormalities in the immune system. The weakened immunity predisposes the
infected person to oncological complications, cardiovascular diseases, renal diseases,
bone diseases and hepatic dysfunction.
However, consumption of Antiretroviral (ARV) drugs curbs replication of the virus. Strict
adherence to antiretroviral therapy also has the ability to suppress replication of the
virus for a long time period, sometimes for life and eliminate risk of HIV

transmission. It also eradicates the risk for development of AIDS. Due to the high cost
of ART, increased lack of HIV testing and toxicities associated with ARVs, most
infected people do not receive effective ART. There is, therefore, a need for enhanced
prevention, treatment and implementation tactics.
Maravilla, J. C., Betts, K. S., & Alati, R. (2018). Trends in repeated pregnancy among
adolescents in the Philippines from 1993 to 2013. Reproductive health, 15(1), 184.
The aim of this study was to investigate the extent to which repeated pregnancies and
repeated births were prevalent among adolescents between 15 and 19 years in the Philippines
between 1993 and 2013. The study was conducted using the Philippine Demographic and
Health survey. All identified women between 15 to 19, and 20 to 24 were interviewed.
Repeated pregnancy was described as at least two pregnancies whether they resulted in a live
birth or not, while repeated was described as at least two live births.
The results indicated a constant prevalence for Repeated births and pregnancies
among adolescents across the 20 years. At least one in five adolescents who had been
pregnant before experienced repeated pregnancy while one in ten adolescents who had given
birth experienced repeated birth. The authors recommend secondary prevention programs in
the Philippines and in other developing countries.
Watt, H. (2016). The ethics of pregnancy, abortion and childbirth: Exploring moral
choices in childbearing. Routledge.
In this book, the author explores pregnancy using the moral perspective which
includes the risks, the rights, the duties and opportunities involved. The discussion covers
assisted reproduction, abortion and other concerns that relate to the pregnant woman. Watt
strongly claims that Zygotes have a moral status like that of any person and that they have a
right to survival and bodily integrity. She also claims that assisted reproduction prevents

couples to unite as they should during conception, and that conception through donor
embryos creates confusion regarding the real parents of a child.
Regarding the right to one’s body, Watt strongly expresses that bodily integrity is
vital. She claims that it is not right to invade a pregnant woman’s body in ways that could be
lethal for the sole purpose of saving the fetus. She acknowledges the fact that women are
more burdened by child bearing than men and that they are entitled to support from the
people around them.
APA format for link
Responsible Parenthood and Reproductive Health Act of 2012. (2019, September 23).
Retrieved from
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Responsible_Parenthood_and_Reproductive_Health_Ac
t_of_2012