Publications

Selected publications: workforce wellbeing

Selected publications updated 11 October 2026.

  1. Nursing stress measurement. Smith, J. B., Schild, U., Engudar, T., Buspavanich, P., & Stadler, G. (2026). What nursing stress subscales do and do not measure: general-factor dominance and item applicability in a 57-item German nursing stress instrument—a psychometric evaluation study. International Journal of Nursing Studies Advances, 11, 100689.
  2. Resilience and working relationships. Willis, E., & Smith, J. B. (2026). Beyond Heroic Individualism: Cultivating Relational Buffers Against Healthcare System Strain. Gender, Work & Organization. Advance online publication.
  3. Nurse migration. Smith, J. B., Herinek, D., Woodward-Kron, R., & Ewers, M. (2022). Nurse migration in Australia, Germany, and the UK: A rapid evidence assessment of empirical research involving migrant nurses. Policy, Politics, & Nursing Practice, 23(3), 175–194.
  4. Burnout and professional ideals. Smith, J. B., Willis, E., Hopkins-Walsh, J., Dillard-Wright, J., & Brown, B. (2024). The Vitruvian nurse and burnout: New materialist approaches to impossible ideals. Nursing Inquiry, 31(1), e12538.

Publication record

Bibliography originally imported from Google Scholar on 15 April 2026; selected entries corrected manually on 11 October 2026. Full indexed records: Google Scholar and ORCID.

Journal articles

  1. Colquhoun, G., Smith, J., & Ring, N. (2026). Invisible yet indispensable: Why clinical research nursing remains a neglected policy priority. Journal of Clinical Nursing, 35(2).
  2. Smith, J. B. (2026). Staying with the trouble in nursing 12.5 hours at a time. Nursing Philosophy, 27(1). https://doi.org/10.1111/nup.70060
  3. Smith, J. B. (2026). The Camp of Reason: Spinoza’s Ethics as affirmative excess. Nursing Philosophy, 27(2).
  4. Smith, J. B., & Stenhouse, R. (2026). Navigating the system of regulation and practice in the UK: Towards a posthuman institutional ethnography of nursing. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 82(2). https://doi.org/10.1111/jan.17077
  5. Mawson, P., Morton, M., Walmsley, Z., et al. (2026). SHORTER trial: Protocol for a pragmatic, multicentre, randomised controlled trial. BMJ Open, 16(3).
  6. Dillard-Wright, J., & Smith, J. B. (2025). An ethics of artificial intelligence for nursing. Online Journal of Issues in Nursing, 30(2). https://doi.org/10.3912/OJIN.Vol30No02Man06
  7. Colquhoun, G., Ring, N., Smith, J., et al. (2025). Evaluating the feasibility and acceptability of a prototype hospital digital antibiotic review tracking toolkit: A qualitative study using the RE-AIM framework. Antibiotics, 14(7).
  8. Oberstar, S., Young, H., Lomper, K., Smith, J., & Colquhoun, G. (2025). Understanding non-medical prescribers’ antimicrobial prescribing and stewardship competency.
  9. Smith, J., Willis, E., Hopkins-Walsh, J., et al. (2024). The Vitruvian nurse and burnout: New materialist approaches to impossible ideals. Nursing Inquiry, 31(1). https://doi.org/10.1111/nin.12538
  10. Dillard-Wright, J., Smith, J. B., Hopkins-Walsh, J., et al. (2024). Notes on [post]human nursing: What it might be, what it is not. Nursing Inquiry, 31(1). https://doi.org/10.1111/nin.12562
  11. Smith, J., Kean, S., Vauhkonen, A., et al. (2023). An integrative review of the continuing professional development needs for nurse educators. Nurse Education Today, 121. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nedt.2022.105695
  12. Smith, J., Klumbytė, G., & Britton, R. L. (2023). From ‘if-then’ to ‘what if?’ Rethinking healthcare algorithmics with posthuman speculative ethics. Nursing Philosophy, 24(3). https://doi.org/10.1111/nup.12447
  13. Smith, J. B., Klumbytė, G., Sidebottom, K., et al. (2023). We all care, ALL the time. Nursing Inquiry, 31. https://doi.org/10.1111/nin.12572
  14. Laurin, A. C., Hopkins-Walsh, J., Smith, J. B., Brown, B., & Martin, P. (2023). Mattering: Per/forming nursing philosophy in the Chthulucene. Nursing Philosophy, 24(3). https://doi.org/10.1111/nup.12452
  15. Smith, J. B., Herinek, D., Woodward-Kron, R., & Ewers, M. (2022). Nurse migration in Australia, Germany, and the UK: A rapid evidence assessment of empirical research involving migrant nurses. Policy, Politics, & Nursing Practice, 23(3), 175–194. https://doi.org/10.1177/15271544221102964
  16. Smith, J. B., Willis, E. M., & Hopkins-Walsh, J. (2022). What does person-centred care mean, if you weren’t considered a person anyway: An engagement with person-centred care and Black, queer, feminist, and posthuman approaches. Nursing Philosophy, 23(3). https://doi.org/10.1111/nup.12401
  17. Hopkins Walsh, J., Dillard-Wright, J., Brown, B. B., Smith, J. B., & Willis, E. (2022). Critical posthuman nursing: Care bodies reborn and the ethical imperative for composting. Witness: The Canadian Journal of Critical Nursing Discourse, 4(1). https://doi.org/10.25071/2291-5796.126
  18. Macht, L., Worlitzsch, D., Braijoshri, N., et al. (2022). COVID-19: Development and implementation of a video-conference-based educational concept to improve the hygiene skills of health and nursing professionals in the Republic of Kosovo. GMS Hygiene and Infection Control, 17. https://doi.org/10.3205/dgkh000412
  19. Smith, J., & Willis, E. (2022). We refuse to cope! The Vitruvian nurse, the code of conduct, and nurses’ lived knowledge. Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience, 8(2). https://doi.org/10.28968/cftt.v8i2.36199
  20. Holloway, A., Guthrie, V., Waller, G., Smith, J., et al. (2021). A two-arm parallel-group individually randomised prison pilot study of a male remand alcohol intervention for self-efficacy enhancement: The APPRAISE study protocol. BMJ Open, 11(4). https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2020-040636
  21. Smith, J. B., & Willis, E. (2020). Interpreting posthumanism with nurse work. Journal of Posthuman Studies, 4(1). https://doi.org/10.5325/jpoststud.4.1.0059

Preprints

  1. Buckup, R. B., Smith, J. B., Stadler, G. B., & Buspavanich, P. B. (2026). Perceptions of homogeneity reproduction in health sciences academia. medRxiv. Preprint; not peer reviewed.

Conference abstracts

  1. Pokrandt, J., Buspavanich, P. J., Berger, M., Stadler, G., & Smith, J. B. (2025). Association of imposter syndrome and psychological well-being in the doctoral process. European Psychiatry, 68(S1). Conference abstract.
  2. Ewers, M., Smith, J., Tomkins, Z., & Woodward-Kron, R. (2020). Nurse migration in Germany, the UK, and Australia: A comparative situation analysis. European Journal of Public Health, 30(Supplement 5). https://doi.org/10.1093/eurpub/ckaa165.532 Conference abstract.

Book chapters

  1. Smith, J., Willis, E., Sheehan, K., & Jones, E. (2025). Making care perceptible: Nursing/intuitive movement/posthuman care. In Posthuman Convergences: Transdisciplinary Methods and Practices.
  2. Smith, J., & Willis, E. (2022). Imagining afFIRMative futures for nursing. In Nursing a Radical Imagination.

Dissertations & other outputs

  1. Smith, J. B. (2023). Ecologies of care: A posthuman institutional ethnography of nursing [Doctoral dissertation, University of Edinburgh].

Public Philosophy

  1. Smith, J.B. (2023). A call to make person-centred care messier. The Polyphony.

  2. Smith, J.B. et al. (2023). From clinical placement to simulation. The Polyphony.

  3. Smith, J.B. (2023). Speculative ethics: Rethinking care. The Polyphony.

Editorial Roles

  • Guest Editor, Special Issue ‘Critical Posthumanism’, Nursing Inquiry (2024)
  • Guest Editor (invited), Nursing Philosophy (2025)
  • Peer Reviewer: International Journal of Nursing Studies, Journal of Advanced Nursing, Journal of Clinical Nursing, Nursing Inquiry, Nursing Philosophy, Nurse Education Today

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