BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES:This study is justified by the relevance of highlighting strategies which may be used by the nursing team to contribute to pain management, considering the importance of pain as the fifth vital sign. This study aimed at describing Nursing interventions to be taught as strategies for pain relief, according to Nursing professors’ perception. METHODS: This is a descriptiv...

Humor has been recognized by nurse researchers and practitioners as a constructive therapeutic intervention and has shown positive psychological and physiological outcomes for patient care. Because cross-cultural research on humor is sparse, this preliminary study investigates how nursing faculty members approach teaching therapeutic humor in the classroom and clinical education in different co...

INTRODUCTION The aim of this principle-based concept analysis was to analyze caring in nursing education and to explain the current state of the science based on epistemologic, pragmatic, linguistic, and logical philosophical principles. METHODS A principle-based concept analysis method was used to analyze the nursing literature. The dataset included 46 English language studies, published fro...

The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of team-based learning (TBL) program on nursing students’ major satisfaction, critical thinking, communication skills, problem solving, and self-directed learning. A Quasi experimental design: nonequivalent control group pretest-posttest design was used. The TBL significantly improved nursing students’ major satisfaction, critical thinking, p...

ba ck g r oun d & aim: spiritual care is an integral part of a holistic nursing care. providing spiritual care has a positive impact on patients’ health outcomes. although nurses understand the importance of incorporating  patient’s  spiritual  beliefs  into the care practice,  understanding  their  spirituality before addressing the spirituality of patients is also important. therefore, the ai...

BACKGROUND Pharmacological knowledge and medication management skills of student nurses greatly depend on the clinical nurse educators' performance in this critical issue. However, the Iranian nurse educators' performance in teaching pharmacology and medication management are not adequately studied. OBJECTIVES The current study aimed to investigate the nursing students' perceptions on the sta...

background : clinical learning environment (cle) is an important factor in clinical education of nursing students. the cle of nursing students has been less studied in iran. therefore, the aim of present study was to investigate the viewpoints of nursing students in tabriz nursing faculty regarding cle. methods : in this descriptive study, 133 nursing students participated. for data collection ...

Undergraduate nursing curricula are being redesigned to include strategies for deployment of mobile learning as a legitimate nursing function. A recent online survey exploring the use of mobile learning by undergraduate student nurses revealed barriers, challenges, risks, and benefits to using mobile learning at the workplace. Inability to access mobile learning at both individual and organisat...

The use of simulations as a teaching and learning tool within health care has increasing importance; simulations are seen as the major teaching method for practicing and assessing developing skills, knowledge, attitudes and meaningful decision-making within the field of nursing. Certainly the utilisations of simulations feature widely within many aspects of health care; a greater understanding ...