Junhong Zhu

• BSc, MSc, PhD
• Professor (Associate) at Zhejiang University

Background: Advanced breast cancer patients often require palliative care (PC) to manage significant symptoms, relying heavily on nurses’ competence. Objective: Evaluate whether a structured PC training program can enhance nurses’ competence in breast cancer care. Methods: After an online announcement at Zhejiang Hospital, nurses enrolled in the PC...

Background Nursing postgraduate supervisors serve as educators, mentors, and research facilitators, ensuring the holistic development of postgraduate students to meet the evolving demands of nursing care. Purpose This study explored factors influencing academic supervision relationships (playing a critical role in the academic and professional dev...

Objective: Recent research suggests that stress mindset influences how people response to stress, however, there is a dearth of research investigates the underlying mechanism accounting for the effects of stress mindset on psychological health. The current research investigated how stress mindset and engagement in proactive coping behaviors predict...

This study investigated lifestyle changes in physical activity, sleep, and diet among healthcare workers and their impact on their mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic in China. Healthcare workers (N = 589) completed an online survey about demographic and personal characteristics, working experiences, COVID-19-related stressors, lifestyle cha...

Growing aging population highlights the importance of managing chronic diseases. The rapid development of Internet of Things (IoT) and big data analysis makes it feasible and affordable to monitor and manage chronic diseases for caring at home. The process of chronic diseases management involves monitoring rehabilitation and recovery, tracking phys...

Aim To explore current research on the ethics of smart home technologies including artificial intelligence and information technologies for elderly care by conducting a scoping review. Background The development of smart home technologies for care of the older adults provides potential solutions to reduce the caregiver burden within families where...

This chapter provides an overview of advanced practice nursing in China, followed by a discussion on how spirituality in healthcare is currently viewed. We conclude the chapter with an Advanced Practice Nurse case study which illustrates aspects of availability and vulnerability.

As a result of the coronavirus (COVID‐19) pandemic, health professionals are faced with situations they have not previously encountered and are being forced to make difficult ethical decisions. As the first group to experience challenges of caring for patients with coronavirus, Chinese nurses endure heartbreak and face stressful moral dilemmas. In...

Should health care workers (HCWs) tell the truth? The answer seems definite to be yes since every medical and nursing staff has taken an oath to the Hippocratic Oath or Nightingale Florence Pledge that only integrity and honesty deserve the trust of patients and commitment of saving life. HCWs who work within the medical system in normal times shou...

This paper advocates to increase nursing ethics research and application in current nursing postgraduate education from three perspectives. First, the current state of nursing ethics education in China. Second, the ethical problems and dilemmas faced by clinical nurses. Third, the development trend of nursing ethics research and education worldwide...

Aim: By comparing the viewpoints of nursing directors and the nurses who left nursing practice, this report examines the issues which entail from the power relations relevant to nursing retention in China. Method: This qualitative study draws on a grounded theory approach and involves two phases of face to face in-depth interviews. The first phase...

Open access the paper from https://www.athensjournals.gr/health/2018-5-3-2-Zhu.pdf

Aim: To test a model examining the effects of structural empowerment and support for professional practice on new graduate nurses' perceived professional practice behaviours, perceptions of care quality and subsequent job satisfaction and career turnover intentions. Background: The nursing worklife model describes relationships between supportiv...

The paper aims to understand how the Chinese nursing education and recruitment policy impacts nurses to leave nursing practice. There is a lack of feasible strategies to maintain a sustainable effective nursing workforce with an increasing trend of nurses' leaving clinical care. In its efforts to resolve the nursing shortage, the Chinese government...

AimThis paper reports a theoretical understanding of nurses leaving nursing practice by exploring the processes of decision-making by registered nurses in China on exiting clinical care.Background The loss of nurses through their voluntarily leaving nursing practice has not attracted much attention in China. There is a lack of an effective way to u...

The aim of the study was to understand why nurses leave nursing practice in China by exploring the process from recruitment to final exit. This report examines the impact of safety and quality of health care on nursing career decision-making from the leavers' perspective. The nursing shortage in China is more serious than in most developed countrie...

The nursing shortage in China is more serious than in most developed countries, but the loss of nurses through their voluntarily leaving nursing practice has not attracted much attention in Chinese society. The aim of this study is to add to the understanding of nurses leaving nursing practice in China by exploring the process from recruitment to f...

To explore issues arising during preliminary stages of a research project in order to consider the feasibility of a midwife-led normal birthing unit in mainland China. Midwife-led normal birthing units, as a route to ensuring normality, have become a feature of western maternity care, but are unknown in China. Action research, using a qualitative d...

to investigate and assess Chinese midwives' views of their roles and ability to practice in a proposed midwife-led normal birth unit (MNBU). a self-completed questionnaire supplemented with semi-structured telephone interviews. Memos, diaries, correspondence and comments of Chinese collaborators were also accessed. six hospitals in Hangzhou, the ca...