Asian/Pacific Island Nursing Journal

Nursing records are essential for maintaining patient care quality but impose a substantial workload on nurses, thus contributing to burnout and diverting attention from direct care. Voice input technology enables hands-free and eyes-free documentation, allowing simultaneous patient care and record entry. Despite its potential, its adoption in clinical nursing practice remains limited owing to concerns about patient privacy, technical instability, and the complexity of entering structured data into electronic medical record interfaces. Furthermore, most previous studies have been conducted in simulation settings or have focused on post hoc dictation. Thus, the feasibility of true simultaneous documentation in real-world clinical environments remains largely unexplored.

Asian American and Pacific Islander populations are disproportionately affected by diabetes.

Bariatric surgery offers quick weight reduction for patients with morbid obesity. Those who plan for bariatric surgery require perioperative preparation, including obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) evaluation, and treatment using a continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) machine is recommended. There are limited data on how patients have prepared for bariatric surgery or for those who have decided to purchase a CPAP machine prior to surgery.

Currently, remote areas face problems accessing health services. Although emergency medical systems have a policy of pushing more rapid response units into these communities, they still have not covered many areas due to the distance and the lack of a specific system that fits the community context. The resulting delays to medical treatment after accidents and emergency illnesses in these areas thus increase the risk of severe symptoms, disability, and subsequent death.

Diabetic foot ulcers (DFUs) are a severe complication of diabetes mellitus that can lead to amputation and mortality. Conventional treatments may be insufficient, leading to an interest in complementary therapies such as herbal medicine, acupuncture, maggot debridement therapy, and biological therapies. These approaches are widely used in Asia, yet their effectiveness and integration into clinical practice remain underexplored.

Tuberculosis (TB) continues to pose a major global health threat, particularly in low- and middle-income countries. An estimated 10.8 million people developed TB in 2023, corresponding to 134 cases per 100,000 population. The Southeast Asia region accounted for 45% of global TB incidence, while the African region contributed 24%. Nutritional status, particularly low BMI, is a key modifiable determinant of adverse clinical outcomes. However, its overall impact on mortality among TB-HIV coinfected populations in Asia and Africa remains poorly quantified.

Stunting affects 21.6% of Indonesian children younger than 5 years, with complications from high-risk pregnancies (HRPs) identified as a potential risk factor. The Developmental Origins of Health and Disease framework suggests that prenatal exposures may permanently alter physiological development and disease susceptibility later in life.

Promoting personal agency may reduce perceived coercion and facilitate recovery in acute psychiatric care. However, no patient-reported tool currently exists to evaluate support for personal agency in this setting.

The current body of work has not yet addressed the potential racial differences in the relationship between systemic inflammation and knee osteoarthritis (OA) symptoms, including pain and physical function.

Women in low-resource regions face a higher risk of breast cancer. Implementing a breast health initiative that promotes breast self-examination practice could aid in the early detection and prevention of breast cancer complications.

Adolescents’ mental health problems significantly affect their long-term psychological and physical health. Although peer influence grows during adolescence, parental influence remains critical. Parental smoking is associated with behavioral problems in adolescents.

Preceptorship programs have been implemented in several hospitals across Indonesia to support new nurses during their transition period in the workplace. Many factors influence new nurses in successfully transitioning into this new role. However, few studies examined the factors that affect new nurses' competency.