In Creative Nursing 2026, we explore the multifaceted relationship between nursing and sociology, a field rich with opportunities for critical analysis and theoretical development. Our first two issues represent distinct yet interconnected approaches that illuminate the social dimensions of health, illness, and health-care delivery. This first issue, Sociology of Nursing, focuses on the nursing profession itself as a social phenomenon, examining nursing's professionalization process and its position within the broader health-care system. Different facets of soft skills in nursing care, and caring as a foundational component of human survival, as well as the continuing impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, are strongly present in this journal issue.
Bakhtiari-DovvombaygiH.RahmatyZ.BahramnezhadF. (2025). Investigating the relationship between self-efficacy and caring behaviors in critical care nurses: A cross-sectional study. Creative Nursing, 32(1). https://doi.org/10.1177/10784535251357968
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ChristiansonJ.Sommers-OlsonB.FoxC.JohnsonN. L. (2025). Nurse perspectives on labor union participation prior to implementation of a collective bargaining agreement: A qualitative study. Creative Nursing, 32(1). https://doi.org/10.1177/10784535251314146
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ConsoloL.PancheriL.GaspariniS.DepalmaL.CondorelliA.LuongoD.PazzagliaS.LusignaniM. (2025). Barriers and facilitators for nursing students’ clinical instructors in clinical placements: A qualitative study. Creative Nursing, 32(1). https://doi.org/10.1177/10784535251367482
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HidakaT.HosodaY. (2025). Exploring preceptors’ metacognition in novice nurse instruction: A qualitative descriptive study. Creative Nursing, 32(1). https://doi.org/10.1177/10784535251406330
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KatsuyamaA.AkazawaC. (2025). Barriers to multiprofessional information sharing for early mobilization in the intensive care unit: A qualitative descriptive study. Creative Nursing, 32(1). https://doi.org/10.1177/10784535251379558
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LaariL. (2025). Breaking barriers to advocacy as a core professional responsibility in nursing: The Nursing Advocacy Activation Mode. Creative Nursing, 32(1). https://doi.org/10.1177/10784535261418728
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LaariL.AmpomahM. O.Anim-BoamahO.AttafuahP. Y. A.OheneL. A. (2025). Barriers to integrating soft skills in nursing education and patient care in Ghana’s health-care institutions. Creative Nursing, 32(1). https://doi.org/10.1177/10784535251374712
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McKenna LawsonS.WhybrowD.ThomasH.BeechI.NuteA. (2025). Hierarchies of need: A systematic review of resilience, challenge, and change in the global nursing workforce during the first two years of the COVID-19 pandemic. Creative Nursing, 32(1). https://doi.org/10.1177/10784535251390034
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PrendergastN.BoakyeP.MunroeG.-C.ObewuT.AO. (2025). “Telling our stories of yesterday and today, and creating a new tomorrow”: Black nurses in Canada. Creative Nursing, 32(1). https://doi.org/10.1177/10784535251410279
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PriyaB.KondaS.PradhanR. (2025). Evaluating the occurrence of phlebitis with use of peripheral intravenous cannulas and its associated risk factors in postoperative patients. Creative Nursing, 32(1). https://doi.org/10.1177/10784535251352109
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RosenstrømS.BrødsgaardA.RisomS. S.StreurM. M.MøllerT. (2025). Patient perspectives on living with atrial fibrillation and interactions with health care specialists in cardiac outpatient clinics: A qualitative study. Creative Nursing, 32(1). https://doi.org/10.1177/10784535251361079
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SaidiR.HeidariH. (2025). Design, implementation, and evaluation of a pediatric fever management program for nursing students: A complex mixed-methods study. Creative Nursing, 32(1). https://doi.org/10.1177/10784535251351382
ShattoB.MeyerG.TaylorJ.AldhamariY.SethP.MaasM. (2025). Factors associated with new nurse turnover. Creative Nursing, 32(1). https://doi.org/10.1177/10784535251363586
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TuppalC. P.TuppalS. M. P.PellacœurL. K. A. (2025). Lyrical witness: Poetic inquiry into nurses’ emotional and ethical worlds. Creative Nursing, 32(1). https://doi.org/10.1177/10784535251372021
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VillacarlosP.WarnerA. (2025). Using simulation to develop undergraduate nursing students’ soft skills. Creative Nursing, 32(1). https://doi.org/10.1177/10784535251412945
