Explaining the Concept of Self-Care Competence and Its Dimensions in Elderly Women with Knee Osteoarthritis in Iran: A Qualitative Study.

Background: Chronic diseases, especially knee osteoarthritis, are more likely to occur among women with the increase in age. Self-care is an effective strategy for the management of disease in patients with knee osteoarthritis. Therefore, recognizing the dimensions of self-care competence in elderly women with knee osteoarthritis is particularly important for long-term management of the disease.

Stroke Survivors and Their Family Caregivers' Experiences of Health Information Seeking: A Qualitative Study.

Background: Stroke is a significant and unpredictable event that affects physical and mental functions. A useful approach to returning to a normal life is to seek out health information. This study aimed to explore the experiences from health information seeking in the stroke survivors and their family caregivers.

Barriers and Challenges to Self-Care among Older Adults with Knee Osteoarthritis: A Qualitative Study.

Background: Knee osteoarthritis (KOA) is a chronic disease causing disability in older adults. Self-care is an effective strategy for KOA management in older adults and clinicians have shown increased interest regarding the challenges of self-care activities in these patients. The present study aimed to explore the perception of older adults' patients with KOA regarding barriers and challenges faced in their self-care management.

The effect of nigella sativa oil on the prevention of phlebitis induced by chemotherapy: a clinical trial.

Introduction: Phlebitis, that disrupts chemotherapy, is the inflammation of the vein and the most common complication of intravenous injection of chemotherapy drugs.

Aim: the aim was determine the effect of topical application of N. sativa oil on the prevention of phlebitis caused by chemotherapy.

Learning Situations in Nursing Education: A Concept Analysis.

Background And Purpose: The nursing student requires opportunities to learn within authentic contexts so as to enable safe and competent practice. One strategy to facilitate such learning is the creation of learning situations. A lack of studies on the learning situation in nursing and other health care fields has resulted in insufficient knowledge of the characteristics of the learning situation, its antecedents, and consequences.

The effect of the emotional intelligence education programme on quality of life in haemodialysis patients.

Aim: This study investigated the effect of the emotional intelligence education programme on quality of life of haemodialysis patients.

Background: Nurses need knowledge development regarding the impact of educational strategies on patients' quality of life suffering from chronic diseases.

Methods: A pragmatic quasi-randomized controlled trial was conducted with 47 haemodialysis patients attending a university hospital in an urban area of Iran.

Equity in nursing care: A grounded theory study.

Background:: Equity in providing care is also a major value in the nursing profession. Equitable care aims to provide the entire population with safe, efficient, reliable, and quality nursing services at all levels of health.

Objectives:: This study was conducted to explain the process of the realization of equity in nursing care.

The Comparison of Two Types of Relaxation Techniques on Postoperative State Anxiety in Candidates for The Mastectomy Surgery: A Randomized Controlled Clinical Trial.

Background: Anxiety among patients after surgery can affect their physiological and psychological well-being. The aim of this study was to investigate and compare the effects of Benson's relaxation and rhythmic breathing techniques on postoperative anxiety in candidates for the mastectomy surgery.

Methods: This randomized controlled clinical trial study was conducted with ninety patients in 2013.

Participation a Key Factor for Life Recovery After Disaster: A Grounded Theory Study in an Iranian Context.

Background: Since life recovery after disasters is a subjective and multifaceted construct influenced by different factors, and survivors' main concerns and experiences are not clear, the researchers intended to explore this process.

Materials And Methods: This study was conducted in 2011 - 2014 based on the grounded theory approach. Participants were selected by purposeful sampling followed by theoretical sampling to achieve conceptual and theoretical saturation.

Ethics of rationing of nursing care.

Background: Rationing of various needed services, for example, nursing care, is inevitable due to unlimited needs and limited resources. Rationing of nursing care is considered an ethical issue since it requires judgment about potential conflicts between personal and professional values.

Objectives: The present research sought to explore aspects of rationing nursing care in Iran.

Avicenna's View on the Etiologies of Intestinal Obstruction.

Context: Bowel obstruction is one of the most common causes of acute abdomen. Because of heterogeneity of patients' population and variety of causes, therapeutic strategies are not standardized, so treatment of intestinal obstruction is a surgical challenge in many cases. A traditional medicine approach could help detect some issues that were ignored by modern medicine.

Nurses, the Oppressed Oppressors: A Qualitative Study.

Healthcare equity, defined as rightful and fair care provision, is a key objective in all health systems. Nurses commonly experience cases of equity/inequity when caring for patients. The present study was the first to explain nurses' experience of equal care.

From margins to centre: an oral history of the wartime experience of Iranian nurses in the Iran-Iraq War, 1980-1988.

Background: The extensive nature of the Iraq-Iran war converted to a human tragedy with large casualties; it has affected nursing discipline dramatically.

Aim: To analyse the history of the wartime experience of Iranian nurses in Iran-Iraq War.

Method: The current study was conducted with oral history.

First encounters with instructors: the experiences and perceptions of nursing students in Iran.

Background: The first encounter between an instructor and his/her student influences the development of their mutual relationship. This phenomenon has received little attention in the literature within the context of nursing education.

Purpose: This study explores and describes qualitatively the subjective experience and perceptions of nursing students related to their first encounter with instructors in both classroom and clinical settings.

The perceived information in obtained from the informed consent in Iranian patients with cancer in clinical studies.

Objective: One of the basic issues in clinical studies is to receive the informed consent; that is to say, all the activities applied in patient's involvement in the information, decision-making, ability and volunteering in diagnosis, cure and care. In as much as most cancer patients require information about their individual needs, the present study is conducted to determine the perceived information from the informed consent of clinical studies in cancer patients.

Methods: This is a descriptive study.

Impact of disaster on women in Iran and implication for emergency nurses volunteering to provide urgent humanitarian aid relief: A qualitative study.

Background: Men and women are equally affected by disasters, but they experience disaster in different ways. To provide new knowledge and promote women's involvement in all phases of the disaster management, we decided to capture the perspectives and experiences of the women themselves; and to explore the conditions affecting Iranian women after recent earthquake disasters.

Methods: The study was designed as a qualitative content analysis.

Components of equity-oriented health care system: perspective of Iranian nurses.

Equity in health is one of key objectives in health care systems world wide. This study aimed to explain the perspective of Iranian nurses about equity in the health care system. A qualitative exploratory design with thematic analysis approach was used to collect and analyze data.

Humanistic approach to nursing education: lived experiences of Iranian nursing students.

The nurse teachers tried to have a complete understanding of the educational contents, to transfer knowledge to nursing students better, and to facilitate the process of education. The purpose of this study was to explore the lived experiences of Iranian nursing students regarding the characteristics of academic nurse teachers. In this hermeneutic phenomenological study, data were collected via in-depth, semi-structured interviews with 12 Iranian nursing students and the audio-taped and transcribed interviews analyzed according to Van Manen´s method.

From Margins to Center: An Oral History of the Wartime Experience of Iranian Nurses in Iran-Iraq War, 1980-1988.

Abstract Background: The extensive nature of the Iraq-Iran war converted to a human tragedy with large casualties; it has affected nursing discipline dramatically. Aim: To analyze the history of the wartime experience of Iranian nurses in Iran-Iraq war. Method: The current study was conducted with oral history.

Iranian Effective Clinical Nurse Instructor evaluation tool: Development and psychometric testing.

Background: Clinical education is the heart of the nursing education program. Effective nursing clinical instructors are needed for graduating the future qualified nurses. There is a well-developed body of knowledge about the effectiveness of clinical teaching and the instructors.

Liver transplant recipients quality of life instrument: development and psychometric testing.

Background: Liver transplantation is a life-saving intervention for many patients with end-stage liver disease. In the past, evaluation of successful liver transplantation was based on patients' survival rate. However, in recent years this evaluation has been based on patients' quality of life.

Life recovery after disasters: a qualitative study in the Iranian context.

Introduction: Planned and organized long-term rehabilitation services should be provided to victims of a disaster for social integration, economic self-sufficiency, and psychological health. There are few studies on recovery and rehabilitation issues in disaster situations. This study explores the disaster-related rehabilitation process.