a bstract background: spiritual care should be considered an important part of holistic and multidisciplinary care and it has not been given much importance so far. we should begin with student nurses, who will soon be clinicians, to fi nd out about potentiality of the nursing profession to put spiritual care into practice. little has been known about spiritual well-being, spirituality, and spi...

this descriptive study was aimed to identify how provided nursing care related to physical problems caused by traction and cast in patients with fracture and dislocation in cervical spinal cord in educational hospitals of tehran university of medical sciences. samples, including 46 patients were recruited from neurosurgery and orthopedic wards, and also from neurosurgical intensive care units d...

background: providing a self-care program appropriate for patient needs in a supportive educative nursing system format could reduce migraine-induced disability. this study was designed to determine the effectiveness of orem's self-care program on headache related disability in migraine patients. methods: in this randomized clinical trial, episodic migraine patients with or without aura who sig...

conclusions intelligence care is a comprehensive strategy that in addition to recognizing barriers and bridges of nursing care, with predisposing and precipitating forces it can convert barriers to bridges. results intelligence care emerged as a main theme, has a broad spectrum of categories and subcategories with bridges and barriers, including equality of bridges and barriers (contingency car...

OBJECTIVE The current study was conducted to compare the opinions of mothers and nurses on the importance and availability of nursing support for parents with premature infants hospitalized in NICU. There is no overall picture of the nursing support for parents with hospitalized premature infants in Iran. Nurses, providing care in NICU, must view parent as an essential partner in care. But what...

1. Tehran Psychiatric Institute, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran 2. Dept. of Community Health, Nursing and Midwifery, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran 3. Dept. of Medical-Surgical Nursing Abhar School of Nursing, Zanjan University of Medical Sciences, Abhar, Iran 4. Dept. of Medical-Surgical Nursing, Abhar School of Nursing, Zanjan University of Medical Scie...

1 Medical-Surgical Nursing, Jahrom University of Medical Science, Jahrom, Iran 2 Medical-Surgical Nursing, Jahrom University of Medical Sciences, Jahrom, Iran 3 BSc of Nursing, Jahrom University of Medical Sciences, Jahrom, Iran 4 Medical-Surgical Nursing, Faculty Member of Jahrom University of Medical Sciences, Jahrom, Iran 5 Community Health Nursing, Faculty Member of Jahrom University of Med...

quality of nursing care in chronic heart diseases: concept analysis based on hybrid model    gholami m [1] , mohammadi f [2] *, fallahi m [3] , seyed bagher maddah s [4] , ahmadi a [5] , rafii f [6] , khankeh h r [7]     received: 22 jan, 2013 accepted: 9 apr, 2013    abstract  background & aims : quality of nursing care as a concept is subjective, multidimensional, ambiguous, neutral, related ...

PERSPECTIVE: DO NURSING EDUCATION PREPARE STUDENTS FOR APPLYING OF PROFESSIONAL VALUES IN CLINICAL PRACTICE? Batool Poorchangizi, Jamileh Farokhzadian, Fariba Borhani, Abbas Abbaszadeh, Moghaddameh Mirzaee. MSc student of Nursing, School of Nursing and Midwifery and surgical ward nurse in Shahid Bahonar Hospital, Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Kerman, Iran; Department of Community Healt...

background: hypothermia is one of the problems occurring during surgery, which can happen due to thermoregulation mechanism isorders and intake of low temperature iv fl uids, and may cause increase in blood pressure, heart rate, intracranial pressure,oxygen consumption, pain, and discomfort to the patient. the rate of esarean section in our country is three times more than the global standard. ...