Introduction: Ethical decision-making by nursing managers is influenced by various essential factors, such as courage, without which it is impossible to act on them. Objective: This study aimed to explore the experiences of nursing managers about courage in ethical decision-making. Materials and Methods: The current study was conducted in Iran by a qualitative content analysis approach in 201...

This research examines the gap between the level and nature of intranet system benefits commonly reported by the practitioner press and those benefits cited in academic research. Results are analyzed for two different timeframes: the early period when intranets were emerging, and the more later mature stage. Conclusions are drawn concerning how claims of intranet benefits in the practitioner pr...

background: university staff plays an important role in breeding a healthy and prosperous generation. their right for attending to interests and selfactualization are noticeable. this qualitative research has been conducted in order to understand and explain the perspective and experience of staff working at ahvaz jundishapur university of medical sciences (ajums) about leisure time. methods: a...

conclusions: the core variable of our research is acceptance of the reality of the conditions caused by the disease. the research finalized our knowledge about patient problems regarding social support and revealed many problems of supporting patients by health team members, family members and organizations. the findings suggest that individual aspects of patient experiences must be considered ...

background :this study aimed to understand the confront strategies of parents of premature infants hospitalized in nicu.   methods : this study was performed using qualitative content analysis approach. twelve participants including nine parents whose infants were hospitalized in nicu, two nurses and one physician, all selected by purposive sampling method were interviewed by a female expert oc...

abstract background: to respond efficiently to the increasing and new needs of people in health issues, it is necessary for nurses to develop their knowledge from hospital to society and to be equipped to play entrepreneur role in different levels of care. the present study was conducted to describe iranian entrepreneur nurses’ perceived barriers to entrepreneurship, in order to identify the ex...

abstract background: few attempts were made for alleviating the physical/psychological problems among the cardiac valve–replaced patients and no comprehensive study was done based on the experiences of such patients. this study was undertaken to describe the stressful experiences of the heart valve-replaced patients. materials and methods: in this qualitative study performed during 2012-2013 wi...

objective: childbirth is one of the most vulnerable moments and the most important and memorable events in the lives of women that despite of bringing happiness, it can be associated with psychological trauma and endanger the mother and neonate health. mothers' perception of the psychological birth trauma is a highly subjective process that depends on the cultural, social and biological conditi...