Background: Academic adjustment significantly influences the progress of nursing students. Understanding clinical education environments can profoundly affect students' academic adjustment. This study aims to determine nursing students' perception of the clinical learning environment and its relationship to academic adjustment.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Effective communication between nurses and cancer patients is essential for patient satisfaction and optimal health outcomes in outpatient oncology settings. This study explored the communication experiences of Iranian cancer patients receiving outpatient treatment.
Methods: Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 14 adult cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy, radiotherapy, or follow-up treatment at an outpatient clinic in Urmia, Iran.
Background: The TPSN model is an innovative model to create an integration and structured relationship between educational and healthcare provider institutions. This model is done to reduce the theoretical-practical gap in nursing. The present study aimed to explore the experiences of nursing students.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Despite the importance of faculty retention, there is little understanding of how demographic variables, professional and institutional work-life issues, and satisfaction interact to explain faculty intentions to leave. This study aimed to investigate the intention to leave among academics and their Work-Life Quality and Satisfaction.
Methods: This is a descriptive cross-sectional study conducted by 8 faculties affiliated to Urmia University of Medical Sciences located in Urmia, West Azarbaijan province, Iran.
J Emerg Nurs
March 2024
Introduction: Family members experience considerable physiological, psychological, and emotional pressure when accompanying a critically ill relative in the emergency department. The culture and context of care influence the needs of the family, and a thorough understanding of these needs by health care professionals is essential to providing patient- and family-centered care. This study aimed to compare nurses' and family members' perceptions of the priorities of family member needs and their satisfaction with meeting those needs in the emergency department.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAim: Nursing diagnosis is the basis of applying nursing process and evidence-based care in nursing. This issue has been affected by the gap between theory-practice in nursing. The attending nursing teachers Project aims to create an organizational link between health care centres and nursing schools, reducing the gap between theory-practice and empowering nurses to apply nursing diagnosis.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAim: This study was conducted to describe the perceptions of nursing applicants about their chosen profession and to explore the factors which influenced their understanding.
Design: A qualitative study with a conventional content analysis design.
Methods: Participants were 19 nursing applicants enrolling in nursing schools in three provinces of western Iran.
Background: There are still concerns about the effectiveness of clinical education models which are done with the aim of reducing the theoretical-practical gap in nursing. In this article, we intend to describe an innovative model to create an integration and structured relationship between educational and healthcare provider institutions. The basis of this work is the full-time presence of nursing teacher in the clinical settings and the development of their role to improve the education of students and nurses and the quality of nursing services.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Nurses are at the forefront of patient care during infectious disease pandemics and they play a key role in treating and preventing the upward trend of the disease. Hence, it is crucial to consider their experiences in designing action plans to combat coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Since there is not enough data in this regard, the current study aimed to investigate the nurses' experiences in caring for patients with COVID-19 in Iran.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAim: There is a lack of clarity about the components which would signify appropriate psychological strengths among nursing student candidates. This study was conducted to identify such components from the viewpoint of the clinical nurses and nursing instructors.
Design: A qualitative study.
Background: Nursing education institutions are required to select and train applicants who have appropriate characteristics for delivering effective healthcare. Unlike other healthcare professions and despite the need to attract and select a competent workforce, there has been no comprehensive analysis of the selection criteria and methods used to recruit nursing students. As there is relatively limited prior research available, we conducted a scoping review to explore and synthesise the existing evidence regarding admission criteria and selection methods of nursing students and for the purpose of identifying an agenda for future research in this field.
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