Nursing identity and patient-centredness in scholarly health services research: a computational text analysis of PubMed abstracts 1986–2013

摘要

Background The most important and contested element of nursing identity may be the patient-centredness of nursing, though this concept is not well-treated in the nursing identity literature. More conceptually-based mapping of nursing identity constructs are needed to help nurses shape their identity. The field of computational text analytics offers new opportunities to scrutinise how growing disciplines such as health services research construct nursing identity. This paper maps the conceptual content of scholarly health services research in PubMed as it relates to the patient-centeredness of nursing. Methods Computational text analytics software was used to analyse all health services s in the database PubMed since 1986. s were treated as indicative of the content of health services research. The database PubMed was searched for all research papers using the term “service” or “services” in the or