The mediating role of moral reasoning in spiritual intelligence and caring behaviors in Iranian emergency nurses.

Moral reasoning is necessary to the nursing profession. Therefore, this study aimed to investigate the mediating role of moral reasoning in spiritual intelligence and caring behaviors among Iranian emergency nurses. In this descriptive-analytical study structural equation modeling (SEM) is employed for the data analysis.

Identification and assessment of nursing task errors in emergency department using SHERPA technique and offering remedial strategies.

Background: Improving health care quality is a global concern, and providing patients with safe healthcare is a WHO Patient Safety priority. The technological revolution in health services has highlighted the role of human factors in committing such errors, and since the number of medical errors, including nursing errors, increases on a daily basis.

Objectives: This research aimed to identify the causes of Nursing Task Errors in Emergency Department Using SHERPA Technique and adopt strategies to prevent and reduce them.

Perceived Stigma in People Living With HIV in Qom.

This study aimed to report on perceived stigma by PLWH and factors that affect it. A cross-sectional study was carried out on 120 PLWH in Qom, Iran from November 2015 to April 2016. Persian version of Fife and Wright's scale was used to measure perceived stigma.

Informational support to family members of intensive care unit patients: the perspectives of families and nurses.

Introduction: The receiving information about the patients hospitalized in the intensive care unit is classified among the most important needs of the family members of such patients. Meeting the informational needs of families is a major goal for intensive care workers. Delivering honest, intelligible and effective information raises specific challenges in the stressful setting of the intensive care unit (ICU).

Sources of hope: Perception of Iranian family members of patients in the Intensive Care Unit.

Background: Admission to an Intensive Care Unit (ICU) is recognized as a situation with emotional strain, uncertainty, and fear of losing the patient. In such stressful situations, it is hope that can promote psychological stability in the patient's family members. Related literature revealed that sources of hope in this situation have still not been discussed well in studies.

Giving information to family members of patients in the intensive care unit: Iranian nurses' ethical approaches.

Receiving information related to patients hospitalized in the intensive care unit is among the most important needs of the family members of such patients. When health care professionals should decide whether to be honest or to give hope, giving information becomes an ethical challenge We conducted a research to study the ethical approaches of Iranian nurses to giving information to the family members of patients in the intensive care units. This research was conducted in the intensive care units of three teaching hospitals in Iran.