Purpose: Ankle pump exercises (APE) have been widely used in clinical practice. However, best practices for APE have not been established. Recognize the most effective frequency of APE for improving lower extremity hemodynamics and establish recommendations in clinical practice. Methods: Therefore, a systematic review and network meta-analysis (NMA) was performed according to PRISMA-NMA. Six English databases (Pubmed, Medline, CINAHL, Embase, the Cochrane library and ProQuest) and four Chinese databases (CNKI, Wanfang, VIP and Sinomed) were searched. Randomized controlled trials (RCTs) and quasi-experimental studies investigating the effects of different frequencies of APE on lower limb hemodynamics published before July 2022 were included. The reference list was also searched. Seven studies (one RCTs and six quasi-experimental studies) were included in the systematic review and five studies (one RCTs and four quasi-experimental studies) were included in the NMA. The risk of bias was assessed using the Cochrane and Joanna Briggs Institute tools. The NMA was performed using the R software (version 4.2.1) and OpenBUGS (version 3.2.3). Results: The results of the NMA showed that a frequency of every 3–4 s the most effective in improving lower extremity hemodynamics (P =.85), followed by every 1–2 s (P = .81), every 5–6 s (P=.32) and less than every 10 s (P =.02). Subgroup analysis failed to find a difference between healthy participants and those with unilateral total hip arthroplasty or fracture (MD = −0.23, 95% CI-5.92 to 4.61). Conclusions Consequencely, for adult patients, with or without lower extremity disease, a frequency of every 3–4 s can be recommended as the optimal frequency of APE in clinical care practice.Registered number on PROSPEROCRD42022349365. https://www.crd.york.ac.uk/PROSPERO/display_record.php?RecordID=349365.

Objective:To establish a competency assessment system for nutritional support specialist nurses, so as to provide reference basis for training reform, functional performance, and improvement of nursing service quality for nutritional support specialist nurses.Methods:Based on the practice standards of nutrition support specialist nurses published by American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition, the draft of the competency assessment system for nutrition support specialist nurses was developed through literature search and group discussion. From November 2021 to February 2022, two rounds of expert letter consultation were conducted with 15 experts by Delphi method, indicators were screened and modified according to expert suggestions, and the final competency assessment system for nutrition support specialist nurses was formed.Results:The effective response rates of the two rounds of expert inquiry questionnaires were 93.3% (14/15) and 100.0% (15/15) , with expert authority coefficients of 0.922 and 0.917, respectively. In the first round of expert consultation, 50.0% (3/6) of the first-level indicators agreed with a percentage≥80.0%, and 64.9% (24/37) of the second-level indicators agreed with a percentage≥80.0%. In the second round of expert letter consultation, the agreement percentage of the first and second indicators were≥80.0%. The final competency assessment system for nutrition support specialist nurses included 6 first-level indicators (practical ability, communication and coordination ability, education and consultation ability, legal and ethical decision-making ability, scientific research ability, leadership) and 29 second-level indicators.Conclusions:The competency assessment system for nutritional support specialist nurses constructed in this study is scientific, reasonable, and highly reliable, which can be used to standardize the training process of nutritional support specialist nurses, promote personal development.