Bibliometric mapping of intensive care nurses' wellbeing: development and application of the new iAnalysis model.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Intensive care nurse wellbeing is essential to a healthy healthcare workforce. Enhanced wellbeing has widespread benefits for workers. Bibliometrics enables quantitative analysis of bourgeoning online data. Here, a new model is developed and applied to explore empirical knowledge underpinning wellbeing and intensive care nurse wellbeing in terms of size and impact, disciplinary reach, and semantics.

Methods

Mixed methods bibliometric study. Firstly, a new model coined 'iAnalysis' was developed for the analysis of published data. Secondly, iAnalysis was applied in two studies to examine wellbeing and ICU nurse wellbeing. Study one explored data from a title search with search terms [wellbeing OR well-being], identifying 17,543 records with bibliographic data. This

SUBMITTER: Jarden RJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6547532 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature