Publications by authors named "Afsaneh Sadooghiasl"
In the years following its outbreak in 2019, COVID-19 changed the health-care system structures, the context of professional activity, and nurses' moral performance. The present study aimed to examine the moral distress and moral courage of Iraqi nurses during the COVID-19 pandemic. This cross-sectional and correlational study was conducted in 2021 on 168 nurses selected by convenience sampling methods.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground And Aim: Mental fatigue (MF) was a major challenge for nurses during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. Nurses' sense of responsibility towards their patients and societies may influence their MF. This study aimed to assess the relationship between MF and social responsibility (SR) among nurses who provided care to patients with COVID-19.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjectives: The aim of this study was to explore the process of how nurses experienced and dealt with alarm fatigue in intensive care units based on Iranian nurses' perceptions and experiences.
Background: Alarm fatigue is the overstimulation of senses due to the constant ringing of alarms in intensive care units. It is associated with nurses' desensitization to critical alarms that can directly influence patient safety and quality of care.
Background: Alarm fatigue is a condition in which a person experiences sensory overload or desensitization in exposure to frequent non-actionable alarms. Nurses are the main users of alarms in health care and their behaviors for alarm management influence the occurrence of alarm fatigue.
Objectives: This qualitative research aimed to explore strategies used by nurses in dealing with nurses' alarm fatigue in the intensive care unit (ICU).
Aim And Objective: Mental well-being is one of the most important aspects of health. Life-threatening situations such as diseases affect mental well-being. Mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) program is an effective program for improving well-being.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Self-compassion enhances self-care behavior in patients with multiple sclerosis. This concept has been defined in previous studies; however, in order to effectively enhance it, patients' perceptions about and experiences with self-compassion should be first understood. Therefore, this study aims to explore the meaning of self-compassion experienced by patients with multiple sclerosis.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAim: To explore strategies used by nurse managers in dealing with nursing negligence in clinical practice.
Background: Negligence is a global challenge in healthcare settings with a significant impact on patient safety. Nurse managers have a responsibility to prevent negligence and improve the quality of healthcare services.
Nurse-patient communication is the foremost step in providing professional care. Nurses can use effective communication as a simple and powerful tool to create comfort, happiness, and vitality to reduce the patient's grief and suffering. This study aimed to explain the nurses' perception of empathetic nurse-patient communication.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: The nursing education in Ghana has only witnessed minimal advancement though one of the earliest in Africa. This study aimed to explore nursing education in Ghana at the bachelor degree level in terms of the program's strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats from the perspectives of nurses and midwives.
Methods: A qualitative design based on the content analysis approach was used in this study.
Background: In order to achieve the goals of the healthcare system, nursing managers are required to comply with ethical principles in decision-making. In complex and challenging healthcare settings, it is shown that the managers' mere awareness of ethics does not suffice and managers need to be sensitive toward making ethical decisions.
Aim: To explore nursing managers and their sensitivity toward ethical decision-making by analyzing their related experiences.
Background: Moral courage is one of the most fundamental virtues in the nursing profession, however, little attention has been paid to it. As a result, no exact and clear definition of moral courage has ever been accessible.
Objective: This study is carried out for the purposes of defining and clarifying its concept in the nursing profession.
Background: Educational Environment (EE) is considered as a key component of educational curriculum.
Aim: The aim of this study was to evaluate the EE of Nursing and Midwifery School of Tehran University of Medical Sciences (TUMS) by using Dundee Ready Education Environment Measure (DREEM).
Methods: This cross-sectional descriptive study was conducted in 2013.