Heel warming could become a routine practice to decrease the pain response of neonates during heel stick.

This follow-up survey on trends in Nursing Informatics (NI) was conducted by the International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA) Student and Emerging Professionals (SEP) group as a cross-sectional study in 2019. There were 455 responses from 24 countries. Based on the findings NI research is evolving rapidly. Current ten most common trends include: clinical quality measures, clinical decision support, big data, artificial intelligence, care coordination, education and competencies, patient safety, mobile health, description of nursing practices and evaluation of patient outcomes. The findings help support the efforts to efficiently use resources in the promotion of health care activities, to support the development of informatics education and to grow NI as a profession.

This prospective study tested a model to depict associations between a number of individual characteristics and 6‐month glycated hemoglobin (HbA1c) levels in adolescents with type 1 diabetes (T1D). Adolescents (N = 232) aged 10–19 years with T1D were recruited from a medical center in Taiwan. Demographic characteristics, emotional autonomy, problem‐solving ability, self‐efficacy at baseline, and self‐management information three months after baseline were collected using a self‐reported questionnaire. HbA1c levels 6 months after study commencement were obtained from medical records. Structural equation modeling was used to test the model. Higher baseline self‐efficacy and self‐management at 3 months were directly associated with lower 6‐month HbA1c levels. Higher baseline problem‐solving ability and self‐efficacy were directly associated with higher 3‐month self‐management, and higher baseline problem‐solving ability was directly associated with higher baseline self‐efficacy. Higher baseline emotional autonomy was directly associated with lower 6‐month HbA1c levels but indirectly associated with higher 6‐month HbA1c levels through the mediation of lower problem‐solving ability, self‐efficacy, and 3‐month self‐management. Findings indicate that improving self‐management is essential to improving subsequent glycemic control, which might be achieved by enhancing problem‐solving ability and self‐efficacy. Strengthening problem‐solving ability could diminish the negative impact of emotional autonomy on subsequent glycemic control in adolescents with T1D.