Publications by authors named "Zahra Rezaei Shahsavarloo"
Background: Frail older adults who are hospitalized, are more likely to experience missed nursing care (MNC) due to high care needs, communication problems, and complexity of nursing care. We conducted a qualitative study to examine the factors affecting MNC among hospitalized frail older adults in the medical units.
Methods: This qualitative study was carried using the conventional content analysis approach in three teaching hospitals.
Article Synopsis
- Frailty is a significant issue for older adults, involving declines in physical, psychological, and social health, particularly during stressful events like hospitalization.
- A systematic review identified three effective interventions aimed at managing frailty among hospitalized older patients, based on data from 2000-2019.
- Results indicated successful management of frailty and improved outcomes such as re-hospitalization rates and patient satisfaction, although few studies examined social dimensions or secondary outcomes.
Virtual education refers to a variety of teaching-learning methods that are implemented and supported electronically. The present study was conducted to determine the effects of group blogging on the attitude of nursing students towards virtual education. This was a quasi-experimental pretest-posttest study in which all fifth-semester nursing students (n=25) were selected and asked to design educational blogs on nursing of respiratory diseases.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Clients with communication impairment are at risk for health disparity. Hence, health care workers should be knowledgeable and skillful in communication. However, no studies are available on Iranian nursing and midwifery students' communication skills with patients with severe communication problems.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAim: The present study aimed to investigate nursing students' knowledge of and performance in communicating with patients with hearing impairment.
Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted on all senior nursing students (n = 71) in a nursing school in Iran in 2013. Data collection was performed with a demographics questionnaire, knowledge questionnaire, and performance assessment checklist.