Home Healthcare Medication Safety risks among older adults with chronic diseases: a qualitative study.

Background: Older adults receiving home care often face significant safety risks related to medication management due to their chronic diseases and complex health needs. Despite the increasing reliance on home healthcare services, the specific factors contributing to medication safety risks in this demographic remain inadequately explored.

Objective/aim: This study aims to explore the key factors involved in medication safety risks among older adults with chronic diseases receiving home healthcare in Iran.

Facilitators and barriers to self-management in Iranian men with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: a qualitative study.

Introduction: Self-management, as the most common method of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) management, is not an isolated behaviour, but a set of physical, social, cultural, psychological and existential factors affecting it.

Aim: This study aimed to explore the facilitators and barriers to self-management in men with COPD in the unique social, cultural, political and economic context of Iran.

Methods: This paper reports part of the findings of a qualitative grounded theory study aimed at exploring the process of self-management in Iranian men with COPD, which was conducted in Iran from January 2019 to July 2023.

Development and psychometric evaluation of nurses' health-related procrastination scale.

There is no valid scale to measure health related procrastination, especially in nurses. This study was conducted to design and assess the psychometric properties of the health-related procrastination scale in nurses. This exploratory mixed method study was conducted between April 2017 and May 2019.

Contributing factors involved in the safety of elderly people with chronic illness in home healthcare: a qualitative study.

Introduction: Patients receiving home care are often elderly people with chronic illnesses that increasingly experience patient safety barriers due to special care needs.

Objective: The present study was conducted to determine the factors involved in the safety of elderly patients with chronic illnesses receiving home care.

Methods: A qualitative study with a conventional content analysis method was conducted in home care agencies of Tehran, Iran from August 2020 to July 2022.

Death with Dignity in End-of-Life Nursing Care: Concept Analysis by Rodgers' Evolutionary Method.

Background: The concept of dying with dignity is being discussed in various fields, including psychology, sociology, medicine, and nursing, with different definitions available for this concept. However, few studies investigated the concept of end-of-life nursing care, which plays an important role in the implementation of the concept. This concept can also affect people's perception, attitude, and behavior toward practicing dignified death in health-care centers.

Patient safety in home health care: a grounded theory study.

Background: The home environment is designed for living, not for professional care. For this reason, safe patient care is one of the most important challenges of home health care. Despite abundant research on safe care, there is still little understanding of safety issues in home care.

Concept analysis of patient safety in home care: a hybrid model.

Background: Patient safety in home care is a fundamental and complex concept in nursing. This concept includes a number of challenges in patient care. Studies have shown that there is no clear and uniform definition for this concept.

Factors Involved in Nurses' Health-Seeking Behaviors: A Qualitative Study.

This study aimed to explore the factors involved in Iranian nurses' health-seeking behavior. In this qualitative exploratory descriptive study, 15 nurses from hospitals affiliated to Iran and Qazvin University of Medical Sciences were interviewed from April to March 2020. Data were collected via purposive sampling by unstructured in-depth interviews and analyzed using thematic analysis.

Factors Involved in Praxis in Nursing Practice: A Qualitative Study.

Praxis is a process of applying knowledge in nursing practice to advance emancipatory goals in society and in the world and to eliminate any injustice and discrimination in care. Praxis requires the coherent application of patterns of knowing in nursing practice; however, understanding nursing knowledge is complex and using experiential knowledge alone cannot help us achieve it. The aim of this study was to determine the factors involved in praxis in nursing practice.

Organ Donation Decision in Families With Brain-Dead Patients: An Evolutionary Concept Analysis.

Background And Aim: Organ donation decision is a complicated process for bereaved families; however, its attributes and associated factors are not clear. Accordingly, the purpose of this study was to analyze the concept of organ donation decision in families with brain-dead patients.

Methods: Concept analysis was performed using Rodgers' evolutionary method.

The omission of some patterns of knowing in clinical care: A qualitative study.

Background: Providing holistic and humanistic care to patients requires a variety of factors. A care solely based on objective knowledge might be unsafe and of low quality. Using the patterns of knowing in an integrated manner and relative to the context of caring is one of the necessities for proving a holistic and efficient nursing care.

How Nurses Apply Patterns of Knowing in Clinical Practice: A Grounded Theory Study.

Background: Nurses require a great deal of knowledge to provide a comprehensive and effective nursing care. A number of patterns have been put into place to help nurses acquire this knowledge. The aim of this study was to describe the core variable in the process of using patterns of knowing by nurses in clinical practice.

The Relationship between Experienced Respiratory Symptoms and Health-Related Quality of Life in the Elderly with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease.

Background: Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is one of the diseases that usually present at an advanced age. Respiratory symptoms in patients with COPD are the most important for making treatment decisions and understanding the adverse effects on health-related quality of life (HRQoL). This study aimed to investigate HRQoL in elderly patients with COPD and examine the relationship between this in relation to respiratory symptoms experienced by them and their demographic characteristics.

Explaining the Process of Spiritual healing of Critically-ill Patients: A Grounded Theory Study.

Background: Spiritual healing is one of the most intriguing category of alternative and complementary medicine. The aim of this study was to explain the process of spiritual healing in patients with refractory diseases in Iran.

Methods: This grounded theory study was conducted in Iran from 2018 to 2019.

The Process of Pain Management in Cancer Patients at Home: Causing the Least Harm - A Grounded Theory Study.

Background: Cancer pain management at home is a complicated and multidimensional experience that affects the foundational aspects of patients and their families' lives. Understanding the pain relief process and the outcomes of palliative care at home is essential for designing programs to improve the quality of life of patients and their families.

Objective: To explore family caregivers and patients' experiences of pain management at home and develop a substantive theory.

Barriers to Effective Cancer Pain Management in Home Setting: A Qualitative Study.

Background: Pain is one of the most disturbing and distressing symptoms experienced by cancer patients, and it is the most stressful factor affecting all aspects of patients and their families' lives. Understanding the barriers to effective cancer pain management in home setting is essential for designing programs to improve the quality of the patients and their families' lives.

Aim: Exploring family caregivers' and cancer patients' experiences of barriers to pain management at home.

Maternal Role Attainment in Mothers with Term Neonate: A Hybrid Concept Analysis.

Background: A review of the literature shows that there is little consensus on the practical definition of maternal role attainment in the field of neonatal nursing care. The initial interaction between mother and neonate most often begins in the hospital and can be influenced by neonatal nurses, so it is necessary to clarify this concept in nursing. The purpose of this study was to show the basic characteristics and practical definition of maternal role attainment in mothers with term neonate in a new context.

Self-rated health and general procrastination in nurses: a cross-sectional study.

Introduction: nurses are responsible for taking care of the health of the general public. Nurses´ own health is among the important factors affecting the quality of patient care. Self-Rated Health (SRH) is one of the indicators used extensively in health research for the assessment of the health status of individuals.

The Effect of Self-Management Training on Anxiety and Comfort of Burn Patients Candidate for Skin Grafting.

Background: Self-management programs on needs of burn patients are still essential. So this study determined the effect of self-management training on anxiety and comfort of burn patients who were candidate for skin grafting.

Methods: In a continuous sampling method in Shahid Motahari Burn Center affiliated to Iran University of Medical Sciences, 80 burn patients candidate for skin grafting were divided into equal groups of intervention and control.

A Concept Analysis of Neonatal Palliative Care in Nursing: Introducing a Dimensional Analysis.

Despite the increasing need for neonatal palliative care, it is not adequately implemented in practice. This analysis aimed to clarify the dimension of the neonatal palliative care concept to increase understanding of the concept to give more insight into clinical practice. Using dimensional analysis methodology, 46 English language papers from 2001-2018 were analyzed.

Symptom Disclosure Process Among Iranian Women With Self-discovered Breast Cancer.

Background: Breast cancer is the most common malignancy among Iranian women. Symptom disclosure plays an important role in help-seeking behavior among women with self-discovered breast cancer.

Objective: The aim of this study was to explain how symptoms are disclosed by Iranian women.

Spiritual healing from Iranian cancer patients' viewpoints: A hybrid concept analysis.

Background: Spiritual healing is a complementary and alternative treatment with different meanings in different cultures and religions. However, the concept has not been defined from the cancer patients' points of view. The present study was done with the aim of concept analyses of spiritual healing from Iranian cancer patients' viewpoints.

β-Lactam resistance development affects binding of penicillin-binding proteins (PBPs) of Clostridium perfringens to the fluorescent penicillin, BOCILLIN FL.

Alteration in the binding of bacterial penicillin-binding proteins (PBPs) to β-lactams is important in the development of drug resistance. The PBPs of wild type Clostridium perfringens ATCC 13124 and three β-lactam-resistant mutants were compared for the ability to bind to a fluorescent penicillin, BOCILLIN FL. The binding of the high molecular weight protein PBP1, a transpeptidase, to BOCILLIN FL was reduced in all of the resistant strains.

The effect of aromatherapy massage with lavender and chamomile oil on anxiety and sleep quality of patients with burns.

Introduction: Regarding the importance of anxiety management and improvement of the quality of sleep in patients with burn injuries, this study aimed to determine the effect of aromatherapy massage (using aromatic oils of lavender and chamomile) on the anxiety and sleep quality of the patients with burn injuries.

Method: In a quasi-experimental study, 105 patients with burns were recruited by convenience sampling method and then assigned into three groups (control, placebo massage, and combined aromatic oil massage). The study intervention was performed 20min before bedtime in three sessions, within a week.