Nurses' perception of troubled conscience in intensive care units: a qualitative study.

Background: Troubled conscience results from the lack of attention to the voice of conscience. Regarding the fact that ICU healthcare workers are constantly faced with stressful and challenging situations, they often experience a troubled conscience.

Aim: This study aimed to explain the factors leading to troubled conscience and identify the consequences of troubled conscience among ICU nurses.

Nurses' perception of emergency department overcrowding: A qualitative study.

Introduction: One of the most important wards of the hospital is the emergency department (ED). Due to the increasing number of referrals, overcrowding has become a significant problem. It means an increase in patients' referrals and swarms at the ED, limiting their medical staff access.

The challenges of the Iranian nursing system in addressing community care needs.

Background: The nursing system is one of the major and important fields of health and medicine in every country, responsible for providing nursing care and addressing medical and health-related community care needs. The aim of this study was to explain the challenges of the Iranian nursing system in addressing community care needs.

Materials And Methods: A conventional content analysis method was performed in this exploratory qualitative study, and 27 participants were selected through a purposive sampling method based on the inclusion criteria.

Investigating the Relationship Between Spiritual Health, Meaning in Life, and Death Attitudes among COVID-19 Patients Discharged from ICUs: A Cross-Sectional Study in Iran.

The COVID-19 pandemic has been shown to affect both physical and mental health. Because of this mental health burden, it is important to pay attention to issues such as the relationship between spiritual health, death attitudes and meaning in life - all issues made more prominent during the pandemic. This study was conducted to determine the correlation between these three factors - spiritual health, meaning in life, and death attitudes, among patients with COVID-19 discharged from the intensive care units of hospitals affiliated with Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.

Striving to Keep a Clear Conscience by Going Above and Beyond: The Experiences of Intensive Care Unit Nurses.

Working as a nurse in the critical care unit may involve ethical challenges including conflict of conscience. Literature provides very limited knowledge about intensive care unit (ICU) nurses' perception of conscience. Considering the influence of culture on the perception of conscience, it is important to study it in diverse contexts.

Experiences of Facilitators and Inhibitors to Treatment Adherence in Patients with Heart Failure.

Treatment adherence is a fundamental aspect of heart failure (HF) management. This study aimed to explore the experiences of facilitators and inhibitors of treatment adherence in patients with HF. This descriptive qualitative study was conducted from May 2020 to June 2021.

Exploring the social accountability challenges of nursing education system in Iran.

Background: Nursing education in Iran is one of the disciplines of medical sciences and it needs a design tailored to the community needs in terms of theoretical and clinical approaches. This system is currently faced with various challenges. This study aims to explore the challenges of Iranian nursing education system to address community needs.

A Concept Analysis of Spiritual Pain at the End-of-Life in the Iranian-Islamic Context: A Qualitative Hybrid Model.

This study aimed to explore the spiritual pain concept in the Iranian-Islamic context using a hybrid research model during 2020-2021. During the first phase, international and Iranian-Islamic literature was systematically searched and reviewed. During the second phase, the researchers referred to oncology wards, palliative care centers, and intensive care units and conducted unstructured interviews with 19 dying patients.

Barriers to Self-Care Planning for Family Caregivers of Patients with Severe Mental Illness.

The chronic nature of severe mental illnesses is necessary for constant care provided by the family caregivers. Considering the significance of family caregivers in providing care, it is imperative to ensure their self-care if they are to play the role of caregiving effectively and efficiently well. The present study was conducted using the purposive sampling method and in-depth semi-structured interviews among 13 family caregivers and five health team members.

Emergency Medical Technicians' Experiences of the Challenges of Prehospital Care Delivery During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Qualitative Study.

Background: Exploring emergency medical technicians' (EMTs) experiences of COVID-19 epidemic, help to identify the challenges they face in their daily work and develop strategies that address these challenges. This study aimed to explore EMTs' experiences of the challenges of prehospital care delivery during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Methods: This qualitative study was conducted in March-July 2020 using conventional content analysis approach.

Experience of discomfort and its self-management strategies in ICU patients.

Introduction: Discomfort in patients admitted to the ICU occurs due to various reasons and leads to a stressful situation in these patients. Discomfort significantly affects the ability to cope psychologically, the process, and results of treatment. The aim of this study was to investigate the experiences of discomfort and its self-management strategies in patients admitted to the ICU.

Creativity in Nursing Care: A Concept Analysis.

The aim of this study was to present the concept analysis of creativity in nursing care using the Walker and Avant (2019) approach. In this regard, the keywords "creativity" and "nursing care" were searched through PubMed, Ovid, Scopus, EMBASE, Google Scholar, SID, and Web of Science between the years 2000 and 2018 along with hand searching of reference lists extracted from more than 342 articles. Finally, 37 articles that had inclusion criteria were examined based on the eight stages mentioned in Walker and Avant's concept analysis approach.

Intensive care unit nurses' conflict of conscience: Walking the Razor's edge.

The study aimed to explore the conditions that accompany conflict of conscience experienced by nurses in intensive care units. A qualitative approach guided the study, which was undertaken between April 2020 and April 2021. A total of 15 registered nurses working in intensive care units were recruited through purposive sampling.

Clarifying the concept of conscience in nurses' ethical performance in Iran: a concept analysis study.

Although 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.

Workplace interpersonal conflict in prehospital emergency: Concept analysis.

Background: In the turbulent and stressful work environment of prehospital emergencies, the conflict among emergency medical technicians (EMT) and other health-care providers is inevitable. This study aims to examine the concept of workplace interpersonal conflict (WIC) in prehospital emergencies.

Materials And Methods: The eight-step Walker and Avant's concept analysis approach was adopted to define the concept.

Diplomatic activities of Iranian Nursing Organization: A qualitative study.

Background: Nursing organizations play an important role in fulfilling the professional demands of nurses. The Iranian Nursing Organization (INO) is also using diplomatic activities in this direction.

Aim: This study was conducted to explain the diplomatic activities of INO.

Factors affecting the emergence of diplomacy in Iranian nurse managers: a qualitative study.

Aim: To explore the factors affecting the emergence of diplomacy in Iranian nurse managers.

Background: Today, with the development of complex health systems, diplomacy in health care can take place at organizational, national and international levels.

Introduction: Diplomacy's role is to convince others peacefully to achieve goals.

Perspectives of parents on the meaning of happiness in children with long-term illness: A hybrid concept analysis.

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.

Superstition in health beliefs: Concept exploration and development.

Concept exploration and development of superstition is the aim of this research. Superstition is a complex concept, needs to be clarity, removes it from its mundane state, and gives it a scientific richness. To use a list of questions extracted from a review of the literature to analyze, develop, and explore superstition.

Experiences of Iranian Teen Mothers with Parenting Stress: A Qualitative Study.

Early motherhood may develop various stresses for the teen mothers and have adverse consequences. Current research aims at exploring experiences of teen mothers with stress and stressors of early motherhood. This qualitative study was conducted using conventional content analysis through in-depth semistructured interview.

The lived experiences of clinical nurse managers regarding moral distress.

Ethical management with minimum moral distress is one of the main duties of nurse managers. There is no doubt that a better understanding of the experiences of nurse managers in morally challenging situations could have an effective role in improving health care systems. The present study aimed to investigate the lived experiences of clinical nurse managers regarding moral distress.

Effect of Illness Perception Correction - Based Educational Program on Quality Of Life and Self- Care in Patients with Heart Failure: a Randomized Controlled Trial.

Because of the chronic nature of Heart Failure (HF), low Quality of Life (QoL) and poor self-care are prevalent among patients with HF. Thus, the aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of illness perception correction- based educational program on QoL,and self- care in patients with HF. In this randomized controlled trial, 78 eligible patients were included in the study from Rajaei Heart Center (Tehran, Iran) and randomly assigned into intervention and control group with 1:1 allocation ratio.

Identifying and Overcoming Barriers for Implementing Watson's Human Caring Science.

The 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.

Children's description of pain through drawings and dialogs: A concept analysis.

Aim: To present a concept analysis of pain in children's drawings and dialogs.

Introduction: The complexity and subjectivity of the concept of pain in children remain ambiguous. As a result, children are exposed to inappropriate diagnosis and inadequate treatment.

"Tender Care": Iranian Women's Needs to Cope with Hysterectomy and Oophorectomy- A Qualitative Content Analysis Study.

Background: Gynecological surgeries associated with loss of feminine organs evoke more personal, interpersonal and psychological distress that may diminish women's quality of life. Women need and seek support to cope with various distresses which may change over the course of diagnosis to treatment. This study aimed to explore Iranian women's needs to cope with hysterectomy and oophorectomy.