Quality of services in health education nurse-led clinics: an Iranian service providers and service recipients experience.

Background: Patient education is a vital role of nurses in nurse-led clinics(NLCs). Since 2011, independent NLCs entitled health education Nurse-led clinics(HENLCs) have been established in Iran. In order for this newly developed service to be able to perform perfectly in implementation and evaluation, it should be explained based on one of the quality evaluation models.

Approaches for boosting self-confidence of clinical nursing students: A systematic review and meta-analysis.

Background: Self-confidence is a key element in successfully promoting achievement strivings among the healthcare workforce. Targeted interventions can strengthen this characteristic in nursing students, thus improving the quality of hospital services.

Objectives: We evaluated the effect of educational interventions on boosting self-confidence in nursing students using systematic review and meta-analysis.

Outcomes of Patient Education in Nurse-led Clinics: A Systematic Review.

Introduction: Patient education is an independent role of nurses performed in nurse-led clinics (NLCs). The measurement of patient education outcomes validates whether nursing educational interventions have a positive effect on patients, which helps determine whether changes in care are needed. Standardized nursing terminologies facilitate the evaluation of educational outcomes.

The Effect of Mentoring Novice Clinical Educators on the Perception of Nursing Students from the Clinical Learning Environment.

Introduction: Creating a supportive clinical learning environment (CLE) is one of the characteristics of an effective clinical instructor in nursing. Perhaps empowering novice clinical educators using mentorship method can reduce or resolve this problem. The aim of this study was to determine the impact of the mentorship program for novice clinical educators on the nursing students' actual and preferred understanding of CLE.

The development of practice standards for patient education in nurse-led clinics: a mixed-method study.

Introduction: Educating patients and families about self-care is one of the important roles of nurses in Nurse-led clinics (NLCs). NLCs need standards for guiding the practice of nurses. A standard is an authoritative statement that sets out the legal and professional basis of nursing practice.

Participatory management effects on nurses' organizational support and moral distress.

Research Question/aim/objectives: Providing care for hospitalized children causes moral distress to nurses. Employee participation in discovering and solving the everyday problems of the workplace is one of the ways to hear the voices of nurses. This study aimed to evaluate the effect of participatory management programs on perceived organizational support and moral distress in pediatric nurses.

Mentoring as an Appropriate Strategy for Medical Faculty Member Development in Higher Education: A Systematic Review.

Introduction: Human resources development, especially faculty members who play a substantial role in education, is of great importance and can lead to enhanced competence and participation of employees in university affairs. Mentoring is one of the programs that have attracted the attention of activists in this field today. This review aims to integrate the evidence about the goals, methods, implementation steps, and consequences of the mentoring methods for faculty member development in higher education institutions.

Acceptability, feasibility, and effectiveness of smartphone-based delivery of written educational materials in Iranian patients with coronary artery disease: A randomized control trial study.

Background And Aims: Providing education to patients with coronary artery disease (CAD) is one of the crucial roles of nurses and, there are various education methods for these patients. This study aimed to investigate the acceptability, feasibility, and effectiveness of smartphone-based delivery (SPBD) of written educational materials in Iranian patients with CAD.

Methods: A total of 104 patients with CAD who were admitted to the cardiovascular unit of a large hospital in the northeast of Iran were randomly divided into control and intervention groups.

Evaluating the effect of online psychoeducational support group on perceived stress in family caregivers of COVID-19 survivors.

Introduction: This study aimed to determine the effect of an online psychoeducational support group on the perceived stress of caregivers of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) survivors.

Methods: This randomized clinical trial included 70 caregivers of COVID-19 survivors discharged from Imam Reza Hospital in Mashhad, Iran in 2021. The intervention group received a psychoeducational support training program for stress management through six online group sessions (each 35-45 minutes) in a week.

Measurement Model of Women's Preferences in Obstetrician and Gynecologist Selection in the Private Sector: Exploratory and Confirmatory Factor Analysis.

Background: The purpose of this study is to construct and validate a measurement model of women's preferences in Obstetrician and Gynecologist (OB/GYN) selection in the private sector of non-clinical parameters.

Methods: This methodological study included 462 respondents in OB/GYN's offices to a researcher-made questionnaire. The patients visited 57 offices of OB/GYNs in the city of Mashhad in Iran and completed women's preferences in OB/GYN selection questionnaire over a 2-month period from January to February 2018.

Information need, learning need and educational need, definitions and measurements: A systematic review.

Background: There are various definitions and tools for Information Need (IN), Learning Need (LN) and Educational Need (EN) which are used interchangeably in the patient education.

Objective: Clarifying the definitions of IN, LN and EN as well as comparing item generation methods and the dimensions of the available tools to be used appropriately.

Methods: We searched PubMed/Scopus/Embase/Science Direct databases from 1960 to 2019.

Factors Associated With Adherence To Immunosuppressive Therapy And Barriers In Asian Kidney Transplant Recipients.

Background: Medication non-adherence is the major risk factor for rejection episodes. The aim of this study was to determine the risk factors associated with adherence to immunosuppressive regimen and its barriers among kidney transplant (KT) recipients.

Methods: A cross-sectional study was performed in two outpatient post-transplant clinics in Mashhad, northeast of Iran.

Effect of Using a Simulation Device for Ostomy Self-care Teaching in Iran: A Pilot, Randomized Clinical Trial.

Unlabelled: The appearance of a stoma and the potential for contact with stool may negatively affect postoperative teaching effectiveness, especially for patients with cultural and religious backgrounds that consider stool untouchable. Instruction that involves the use of a physical stoma simulator for practice may help address this problem.

Purpose: The aim of this pilot study was to determine the effects of simulation in ostomy self-care training on self-efficacy and adjustment.

The Comparison of Professional Confidence in Nursing Students and Clinical Nurses: A Cross-Sectional Study.

Background: Achieving and improving professional confidence (PC) is an ongoing process from the studentship period to independent professional career. This study aimed to assess PC and compare it between nursing students (NS) and clinical nurses (CN).

Materials And Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted in a medical sciences university in an urban area of Iran in 2015.

Motivation for cardiopulmonary resuscitation: Scale development and psychometric analysis.

Background: The high motivation of rescuers for cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) can result in high-quality CPR. However, there is no instrument to measure the CPR motivation. The purpose of this study was to design the Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Motivation Scale (CPRMS) and evaluate its psychometric properties.

Explaining Postdischarge Care Needs of Cancer Patients: A Qualitative Study.

Aim: This study aimed to explain the postdischarge care needs of cancer patients.

Materials And Methods: In this qualitative content analysis, nine cancer patients presenting to the department of chemotherapy or an oncologist's office, four of patients' accompaniments, four nurses, and two oncologists were selected purposefully until data saturation. They underwent deep individual interviews.

Educational and Managerial Policy Making to Reduce Workplace Violence Against Nurses: An Action Research Study.

Background: The level of occupational violence against nurses increases from 68.8 to 98.6 percent, which is a considerable rate among healthcare settings.

Mutual benefits in academic-service partnership: An integrative review.

Background: Academic and service institutions involve with many challenges. Partnership programs are a golden opportunity to achieve mutual benefits to overcome these challenges. Identifying mutual benefits is the cornerstone of forming a successful partnership and guarantee to its continuity.

Directed qualitative content analysis: the description and elaboration of its underpinning methods and data analysis process.

Qualitative content analysis consists of conventional, directed and summative approaches for data analysis. They are used for provision of descriptive knowledge and understandings of the phenomenon under study. However, the method underpinning directed qualitative content analysis is insufficiently delineated in international literature.

Balancing power: A grounded theory study on partnership of academic service institutes.

Introduction: Governments and professional organizations have called for new partnerships between health care providers and academics to improve clinical education for the benefit of both students and patients. To develop a substantive grounded theory on the process of forming academic-service partnerships in implementing clinical education, from the perspective of academic and clinical nursing staff members and managers working in Iranian settings.

Methods: The participants included 15 hospital nurses, nurse managers, nurse educators, and educational managers from two central universities and clinical settings from 2009 to 2012.

Development of Islamic Spiritual Health Scale (ISHS).

Objective: To develop and psychometrically assess spiritual health scale based on Islamic view in Iran.

Methods: The cross-sectional study was conducted at Imam Ali and Quem hospitals in Mashhad and Imam Ali and Imam Reza hospitals in Bojnurd, Iran, from 2015 to 2016 In the first stage, an 81-item Likert-type scale was developed using a qualitative approach. The second stage comprised quantitative component.

Professional Rescuers' experiences of motivation for cardiopulmonary resuscitation: A qualitative study.

Rescuers' psychological competence, particularly their motivation, can improve the cardiopulmonary resuscitation outcomes. Data were collected using semistructured interviews with 24 cardiopulmonary resuscitation team members and analyzed through deductive content analysis based on Vroom's expectancy theory. Nine generic categories were developed: (i) estimation of the chance of survival; (ii) estimation of self-efficacy; (iii) looking for a sign of effectiveness; (iv) supportive organizational structure; (v) revival; (vi) acquisition of external incentives; (vii) individual drives; (viii) commitment to personal values; and (ix) avoiding undesirable social outcomes.

Do-not-resuscitate Order: The Experiences of Iranian Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Team Members.

Background: One dilemma in the end-of-life care is making decisions for conducting cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR). This dilemma is perceived in different ways due to the influence of culture and religion. This study aimed to understand the experiences of CPR team members about the do-not-resuscitate order.

Spiritual Health in Nursing From the Viewpoint of Islam.

Context: In order to gain a more detailed insight into the concept of spiritual health, a hybrid model of concept analysis was used to remove some of the ambiguity surrounding the conceptual meaning of spiritual health in Islamic and Iranian contexts. The purpose of this study was to clarify the meaning and nature of the spiritual health concept in the context of the practice of Islam among Iranian patients.

Evidence Acquisition: The current concept analysis was undertaken according to the modified traditional hybrid model, which consists of five phases: theoretical phase, initial fieldwork phase, initial analytical phase, and final fieldwork and final analytical phase.

Perceptions of Iranian Cancer Patients Regarding Respecting their Dignity in Hospital Settings.

Background: There are several factors that threaten the dignity of cancer patients in hospital settings. However, there is limited literature regarding the degree to which dignity of cancer patients is actually respected in daily clinical practice. The aims of this study were therefore to explore cancer patient perceptions of respecting their dignity and related variables in an Iranian cancer specific center.