Global Nursing—a literature review in the field of education and practice

AIM: To describe key findings of Global Nursing in empirical nursing studies. DESIGN: A literature review using descriptive data synthesis of peer‐reviewed articles in the field of nursing education and practice. METHODS: This review of Cinahl Complete, PubMed, PsycINFO and Scopus was undertaken using the search strategy “global nursing”. Independent title/abstract and full‐text screening was undertaken, identifying original articles written in English. RESULTS: A total of 472 titles and 170 abstracts were read through. Seventy‐three articles were included for full‐text review. Twenty published studies of Global Nursing with multiple research methodologies fulfilled the inclusion criteria. Findings were described with five categories. Global Nursing Arena, Global Nursing Working Environments, Global Nursing Workforce Management, Global Nursing Competencies and Global Nursing Networking were shown to be crucial when Global Nursing was addressed in the literature.