In the midst of a nursing faculty shortage, recruitment and retention of new faculty are of utmost importance if the country is to educate and graduate a sufficient number of nurses to fill the health care demands. The pressure of horizontal hostility combined with lack of support, guidance, and knowledge about the educational system makes the novice nurse faculty members vulnerable to burnout ...

Introduction: Faculty- student caring relationship in nursing education has been offered as enhancing students' learning experiences to care , desire to care for others and self-actu-alization. This review therefore was carried out to analyze faculty-student caring interactions in nursing education. Methods: This concept analysis of caring in the nursing education was conducted based on Broom m...

determining the intensity of effective individual factors on clinical decision-making of nurses     rostamniya l [1] ,pariyad e [2] [3] , asayesh h [4] ,ghanbari v [5] *     received: 7 oct , 2013 accepted: 1 jan , 2014  abstract  background & aims : clinical decision-making is a critical thinking process which is accepted as an essential part of nursing practice. effective decision-making need...

Correction to: Effect of Motivational Interviewing, Dietary Advice, and Physical Activity on Fetal-Neonatal Outcome in Pregnant Women with Metabolic Syndrome: A Randomized Controlled Trial Farideh Mohsenzadeh-ledari1,  Zahra Motaghi2,  Ziba Taghizadeh3,  Afsaneh Keramat4,  Ali Najafi5, Mahmood Moosazadeh6, Shahla Yazdani7 1 Assistant Professor, Department of Midwifery, Faculty of N...

bed sore in icu    r ghanee [1] , msc h gavami [2] , msc  received: 6 april, 2010 accepted: 24 may, 2010 abstract  background & aims: a fter cancer and cardiovascular diseases, pressure ulcers are the third costly disorders. most common causes of pressure ulcers development are age over 70 years, being male, white skin, smoking, low body mass index, impaired mobility, altered mental status, uri...

Although there is no consensus about the definition of professionalism, some generally recognized descriptors include knowledge, specialization, intellectual and individual responsibility, and well-developed group consciousness. In this study, Q-methodology was used to identify common viewpoints about professionalism held by nursing faculty and students, and four viewpoints emerged as humanists...

1Department of Pediatrics, Nursing and Midwifery School, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, IR Iran 2Department of Medical and Surgical Nursing, Nursing and Midwifery School, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, IR Iran 3Health Research Centre, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, IR Iran 4Department of Nursing, Faculty of Allied Medical Sciences, Ilam Universi...

effect of acupressure on low back pain in patients with spondylarthritis     mahmodzadeh ardakani h [1] *, akbari kaji m [2] , abotalabi g [3] , mohamannazhad a [4] , ghaforifard m [5]     received: 21 nov, 2011 accepted: 14 jan, 2012   abstract   background & aims : arthritis of the lumbar spine is known as disk arthritis. the most common and most important sign of disk arthritis is back pain....

To move the healthcare industry into the 21st century, nurses must become savvy in the use of informatics to provide optimal care to their patients. However, the relatively few formal nursing informatics programs that exist across the country are simply not adequate to meet the demands of both new and existing nurses. Informatics competencies must be incorporated into nursing curricula at entry...

With the inception of a new competency-based nursing curriculum, faculty in a baccalaureate nursing program developed a comprehensive laboratory and clinical evaluation program aimed at progressive, criterion-based evaluation across four semesters of the nursing program. This article provides background for the development of the program, the resources needed, and specific evaluation activities...