One of the advanced nursing care procedures emphasized by nursing organizations around the world is patient or nursing advocacy. In addition to illustrating the professional power of nursing, it helps to provide effective nursing care. The aim of the present study was to explain the concept of patient advocacy from the perspective of Iranian clinical nurses. This was a qualitative study that ex...

BACKGROUND This study aimed to determine the prevalence and factors related to needle stick injuries (NSIs) and to assess related safety measures among a sample of Iranian nurses. METHODS In this cross-sectional study, a random sample of 168 registered active nurses was selected from different wards of one of the hospitals of Shiraz University of Medical Sciences (SUMS). Data were collected b...

Nurses are often faced with serious situations that require high levels of legal and ethical knowledge, and should therefore be sensitive to the moral issues in their profession in the decision making process. Some studies have investigated nurses' moral self-concept as an effective factor in moral sensitivity, but there is not sufficient evidence to support this. The purpose of this study was ...

Available online at: http://npt.tums.ac.ir Background & Aim: Clinical education is performed within a complex social context in clinical settings. Success of the nursing programs depends on appropriate clinical experiences. The aim of this study was to explore clinical learning experiences of Iranian student nurses. Methods & Materials: Twelve bachelor's degree student nurses were chosen from t...

INTRODUCTION Given that nurses are among professions with frequent ‎problems of fatigue, and given the nature of their profession that ‎provides little exposure to sunlight and the subsequent deficiency of vitamin D, the ‎present study examined the relation between fatigue and circulating vitamin D levels ‎in female nurses working in Shahid Beheshti Hospital, Kashan, Iran in 2013. ‎ MATERIAL ...

BACKGROUND Pain is one of the most common symptoms experienced by patients after surgeries. Inadequate postoperative pain management is an international problem and the need to improve its management is well documented. The aim of the study was to assess nursing reports related to the patients' pain intensity and quality, concomitant symptoms, use of scales in pain assessment, and compliance wi...

BACKGROUND Establishing professional communication between physicians and nurses regarding their supplemental roles in health care for patients is unavoidable. Existing studies have reported on related problems concerning ineffective professional collaboration among health care providers. OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to determine Iranian bachelor of nursing students' attitudes regardi...

background: in the last decades cancer has become one of the important causes of death in iran  .this study examined perspective of a group of iranian health professionals, patients and patients’ family members regarding their view on disclosure of cancer information at a university hospital in tehran, iran. methods: the method of study was qualitative semi-structured focused group content anal...

objective: to develop 'moral distress questionnaire' and validate it in a sample of iranian registered nurses. method: 26 registered nurses and 10 professionals attended focused group discussion (fgd) sessions and the acquired qualitative data was analyzed by jameton scale analysis. results: attitudes and definitions of nurses working in private and governmental hospitals of two medical univers...

BACKGROUND Nurses' health is often accompanied by various dangers due to the nature of their career. Therefore, it is required to monitor their health. Based on designing any system, users' views should be investigated relative to the usefulness, necessity and acceptance of the system. Then, a designing and implementing process is conducted. OBJECTIVE To investigate nurses' views on accepting...