Research on trend and focus of clinical nursing based on bibliometric analysis

Qin Tingting; Han Shifan

doi:10.3969/j.issn.2095-8668.2016.02.005

Abstract：Objective:To know about the development trend and research focus of clinical nursing at home and a-broad,so as to provide guidance evidence for clinical nursing practice and research.Methods:The data were re-trieved included in the WanFang database and PubMed database in addition to the clinical nursing literatures on psychological care and traditional Chinese medicine care from 2007 to 2015.And the bibliometric analysis was carried out including the document circulation,the document j ournal,the document high frequency subj ect words clustering and the key words co occurrence and so on.Results:A total of 10 374 articles were retrieved from the PubMed database,and the literatures were in an increasing trend.The distribution of journals Pub-lished in clinical nursing literatures was basically consistent with the description of Brad Ford’s law.The main research contents of clinical nursing in abroad from 2007 to 2009 were:1.study on the method of midwifery and the role of midwives in natural childbirth;2.the study on first aid nursing method;3.study on dementia nurs-ing;4.study on the bandage dressing in traumatic injury nursing;5.study on quality of life in cancer nursing. The main research contents of clinical nursing in abroad from 2010 2012 were:1.study on obstetric nursing patient relationship;2.study on patient medical team in stroke care;3.study on cancer nursing methods;4.the traumatic inj ury nursing research in urinary incontinence care;5 .study on quality of life of caregiver of dementia patients.From 2013 to 2015,the main research contents were:1.study on the skin care and bandage dressing in trauma injury nursing;2.study on evidence based nursing in AIDS nursing.3.study on obstetric nurses pa-tients relationship;4.study on cancer nursing methods;5.study on the Alzheimer’s disease care and dementia care;6.study on the stroke caregiver.A total of 85 570 literatures on clinical nursing were retrieved from the WanFang database,and the cumulative amount of literature was increasing yearby year.The amount of litera-ture published in the core journals showed an increasing trend year by year.From 2007 to 2009 clinical nursing main research contents in abroad were:1.the diabetes care;2.the cancer diseases care;3.the elderly diseases care;4.the complications care;5.the hypertension disease care;6.study on quality of life after nursing interven-tion;7.the chemotherapy care;8.study on compliance issues after nursing intervention;9.the constipation care;10.the cerebral apoplexy care.From 2010 to 2012 clinical nursing main research contents athome were:1.the di-abetes care;2.the cancer diseases care;3.the elderly diseases care;4.study on quality of life after nursing inter-vention;5.the complications care;6.the hypertension disease care;7.the preventive care;8.the perioperative care;9.the pain care;10.Study on complication issues after nursing intervention.2013 2015 clinical nursing main research contents in china were:1.the diabetes care;2.the complications care;3.cancer care;4.study on quality of life after nursing intervention;5.stroke care;6.the elderly nursing;7.study on compliance issues after nursing intervention;8.hypertension care;9.constipation care;10.preventive care.Conclusion:The domestic clinical nursing was in the stage of rapid development of Preiss’s law,the quantity of published documents was increased relatively fast,and the literature growth speed was relatively fast.Clinical nursing in abroad was in the stage of stable development,that was,mature period.The overall development of the quantity of documents published was relatively stable,and the development speed was relatively stable.