Journal of Integrative Nursing and Palliative Care

ISSN: 3006-5550

DOI Prefix: 10.51847

Journal of Integrative Nursing and Palliative Care (JINPC) is an open-access scholarly journal dedicated to advancing nursing knowledge and patient-centered healthcare through the publication of high-quality, evidence-based research and scholarly contributions.

The journal supports scientific exchange and interdisciplinary dialogue that strengthen clinical practice, nursing education, supportive care, and evidence-informed healthcare delivery.

JINPC welcomes original research, reviews, and scholarly contributions across integrative nursing, palliative and end-of-life care, symptom management, supportive care, nursing education, community and patient-centered care, and emerging developments relevant to nursing and healthcare, including digital health and responsible applications of artificial intelligence in healthcare practice.

The journal follows a rigorous double-blind peer-review process and is committed to scientific integrity, editorial transparency, and internationally aligned publication ethics standards.

Published biannually by Galaxy Publisher.

Latest Articles

Sensory Burden as a Limit to Integrative Nursing Care: A Conceptual Framework for Coordinating Touch, Sound, Light, and Bedside Activity in Adults with Advanced Illness

Written by Helena Voss Published on Issue 2 Vol 7, 2026

To examine sensory burden as a potential limit to otherwise beneficial integrative nursing care in adults with advanced illness and to develop a conceptual basis for coordinating touch, sound, light and bedside activity without imposing universal sensory thresholds. Patients with advanced illness may simultaneously experience fatigue, disturbed sleep, pain, psychological distress and changing preferences for interaction. Nursing care, family presence and supportive nonpharmacological interventio

When Complete Symptom Relief Is neither Possible nor Preferred: A Theoretical Account of Acceptable Discomfort, Competing Priorities, and Patient-Defined Goals in Palliative Nursing

Written by Yuki Sasaki Published on Issue 2 Vol 7, 2026

To develop a theoretical account of how palliative nurses can interpret residual symptom burden when complete symptom relief is either unattainable or conflicts with a goal that the patient values more highly. Original non-empirical theory development informed by palliative nursing theory, symptom-management scholarship, patient-preference research, goal-concordant-care literature and evidence concerning serious-illness decision-making. Peer-reviewed nursing, palliative-care and preference-sensi

Preserving Everyday Identity during Institutional End-of-Life Care: A Conceptual Model of Personal Rituals, Familiar Objects, and Negotiated Nursing Routines for Person-Centered Practice

Written by Carmen Ruiz Published on Issue 2 Vol 7, 2026

To examine how everyday identity may be preserved during institutional end-of-life care through personally meaningful rituals, familiar objects, relational continuity, and negotiated nursing routines, while accounting for changing preferences and organizational constraints. Discursive conceptual paper based on a critically selected body of nursing, gerontological, dementia-care, palliative-care, and person-centred-care scholarship. Peer-reviewed literature published between 2017 and 2024 was sel

Learning to Notice before Learning to Intervene: A Theoretical Framework for Developing Perceptual Expertise and Contextual Symptom Interpretation in Undergraduate Palliative Nursing Education

Written by Oliver Hayes Published on Issue 2 Vol 7, 2026

To develop an educational theory explaining how undergraduate nursing students may learn to notice clinically meaningful cues, interpret them in patient-specific context, and select proportionate responses in palliative care without reducing clinical judgment to factual recall or an unvalidated developmental scale. Original non-empirical educational theory informed by critically selected nursing-education, clinical-reasoning, palliative-care and assessment scholarship. Peer-reviewed literature p

Issue 2 Volume 7 (2026)

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