Background: The existence of various ethical challenges, the inability to resolve ethical conflicts, and, as a result, the low quality of care and the occurrence of dissatisfaction in patients and nurses have been discussed for years. By creating new ethical challenges, the Covid-19pandemic has played an important role in making the process of care for these patients more difficult and complicated. This study was conducted with the aim of designing a prescriptive model to help provide ethical-care and resolve ethical conflicts during the Covid-19pandemic.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Providing ethical care during the Covid-19 pandemic has become an inevitable challenge due to facing limitations such as fear of contracting the disease, lack of equipment and emergence of ethical conflicts; So that there is no clear picture of how to provide ethical care for patients with Covid-19. The study aimed to explain the ethical care process of patients with Covid-19.
Method: This qualitative study was conducted in 2021-2023 using the grounded theory research method.
Spiritual health is a unique force that can influence the physical, mental, and social dimensions of life. In order to know the positive effects of spiritual health, it is necessary to explain the adolescents' experiences in this area. This study, therefore, aimed to investigate Iranian adolescents' experiences regarding the effects of spiritual health.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFSingle-parent adolescents are vulnerable individuals and it is necessary to improve their health, particularly during epidemics. This study aimed to investigate the effects of virtual logotherapy (VL) on health-promoting lifestyle (HPL) among single-parent adolescent girls during the COVID-19 pandemic. This single-blind randomized clinical trial was conducted on 88 single-parent adolescent girls recruited from the support organization for vulnerable individuals in Tehran, Iran.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAlthough conscience, as an ethical concept, has emerged widely in the field of nursing, its functional meaning and its effects on nurses' performance are not clear. Therefore, the present study aimed to analyze the concept of conscience in the context of Iranian nurses' ethical performance. This study used a hybrid model including theoretical, fieldwork, and final analytic stages.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: The difficulty of providing care to patients with COVID-19 and the extensive social changes caused by COVID-19 have made the experience of providing care to these patients unique. The present study was conducted to explore the lived experiences of nurses providing altruistic care to patients with COVID-19.
Methods: The present qualitative phenomenological study was conducted in spring 2020 on 12 nurses (8 women and 4 men) selected by purposive sampling from hospitals admitting patients with COVID-19 in Tehran, Iran.
Introduction: Improving the mental status of children with cancer is part of nurses' duties in planning nursing care and is achieved in different ways. This study attempts to combine drawing with peer interaction to improve the mental status of sick children and investigate the effect of exchanging drawings with peers on these children's happiness.
Method: This clinical trial was conducted on a sample of 66 children with cancer, ages 7-11 years, who were randomly assigned to two groups.
Introduction: Children are among the most vulnerable groups in society, whose health is of prominent significance. Moreover, as a group of clients with special needs in the health care system, they require special attention. Therefore, the present study aimed to investigate the 0-14-year-old children's access to health centers in rural areas of Kermanshah Province, Iran.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAim And Objectives: To explore the meaning of living with HIV positive in Ghanaian adolescents.
Design: Hermeneutic phenomenological approach developed by Van Manen methodology (1990).
Method: A purposive sampling of 12 adolescents living with HIV was recruited.
Aim: To define the concept of happiness among children with chronic disease.
Background: Happiness is an old human quest, the existing literature on the definition of happiness among children with chronic diseases is sparse.
Methods: The three-phase hybrid model was used.
To meet the needs of people from various cultures, nursing research must be performed on the basis of these cultures. This research aims to invent interdisciplinary research method based on Islamic documents. This method is with three stages: first, to describe a desired concept; second, to define the concept from the viewpoint of humans.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: Neonates are exposed to multiple painful invasive procedures. Pain management in neonates is an ethical and important task for nurses. This study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of familiar olfactory stimulation with lavender scent and glucose on the pain of blood sampling in term neonates.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe purposes of this paper are to identify and explore ways to overcome barriers to the implementation of Watson's human caring science in Iran. A literature search was done of PubMed, Elsevier, Science Direct, Ovid, , Web of science, and Google Scholar between 1991 and 2018 using the search terms , and , separately and in combination. Organizational-level, practitioner-level, and educational barriers were found, and solutions for each are explored.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe proposed conceptual framework was developed specifically for nursing within the context of Islamic culture. Each of the four multidimensional concepts of the conceptual framework-humans, health, environment, and nursing-clearly reflects Islam. The dimensions of humans are body, spirit, nature, instinct, and Fetrat.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: To investigate the effect of a written prayer technique on the anxiety of mothers of children with cancer.
Method: This clinical trial recruited 90 mothers of children with cancer admitted to the Medical Centre of Tehran. Using a convenience sampling method, we randomly assigned the participants to two groups: control (n = 45) and intervention (n = 45).
Spiritual health is an important dimension of health and forms part of a comprehensive care. This study was conducted to redefine and clarify the components of spiritual health based on different worldviews through Walker and Avant's concept analysis method. Being given a life and a soul and having beliefs are the antecedents of spiritual health.
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September 2017
Family centered care of hospitalized children (FCCHC) is a multidimensional concept, which is directly associated with the context and healthcare system. This study was conducted to analyze the concept of FCCHC in Iran. This concept analysis was conducted with the use of hybrid model in 3 phases: a literature review in the theoretical phase, semi-structured interviews and descriptive observations in the fieldwork phase, and combination of the results of 2 previous phases in the final analytical phase.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurpose: This study describes the concept of health through an analysis of Islamic sources.
Method: The concept analysis method of Walker and Avant was used.
Findings: The concept of health includes body and spiritual dimensions.
Purpose: This study describes the concept of nursing through an analysis of Islamic sources.
Method: The concept analysis method of Walker and Avant was used.
Findings: Nursing is a process of seeking remedy.