The use of drawings and naïve sketches in qualitative health research is particularly relevant in investigating personal experiences, attitudes and feelings, as well as narrating experiences and perceptions. In the case of drawings, participants use projection for inferring underlying motives, urges or intentions that cannot be secured through direct questioning, as participants either resist r...

aims: endotracheal suctioning is a vital process to keep the airways open. the method of performing endotracheal suctioning has a great effect on its complications and effectiveness. this study was carried out with the aim of assessing gap between the knowledge and performance of nurses' working in intensive care units (icu) in tracheal suctioning.   methods: in this cross sectional study,...

context:  the ability to think critically is an essential element in nursing education and ‎more specifically in nurses’ clinical decision making (cdm).‎ aims:  critical thinking (ct) and cdm ability as well as their relationship were ‎examined among nursing students of kerman university.‎ settings and design: study was designed in four towns: kerman, bam, jiroft, and zarand, ‎settled in kerman...

background: clinical learning is one of the important issues that helps the perception of nursing students’ practice in a clinical setting and its effect on their professional development. the aim of this study is to describe and state the manner of clinical learning in nursing students. materials and methods: this qualitative study was conducted as a grounded theory. the individual semi-struct...

background: enhancing nursing students’ critical thinking is a challenge faced by nurse educators. this study aimed at determiningthe effect of clinical concept mapping on discipline-based critical thinking of nursing students. materials and methods: in this quasi-experimental post-test only design, a convenient sample of 4th year nursing students (n = 32)participated. they were randomly divide...

introduction: depression as a disorder is relatively common in all societies several factors are involved in depression development, that shift work is one of these factors. this study compared the frequency of depression in different shifts of nurses in hospitals of yazd university of medical sciences. materials & methods: this study is a descriptive analytical study. based on statistical meth...

background the members of healthcare team have an important role in implementation and protection of patient’s rights. contemporary nursing entails an ethical responsibility to advocate and protect the patients’ rights. conclusions the results of this study was concerning with regard to nursing students’ readiness for duties such as patient’s rights advocacy. therefore, it proposes ethics educa...

background:learning the key issues in providing nursing care requires new instructional strategies that prevent superficial learning of students and improve meaningful and high level learning in them. the aim of this study was to determine effect of teaching the nursing process in composing method on nursing students and their clinical learning. methods: in a quasi-experimental study with two g...

background: human beings use different approaches to learning. thus the aim of this study is to explore the mechanisms of learning through the hidden curriculum in the perspective of baccalaureate undergraduate nursing students. methods: this qualitative study, involving 24 baccalaureate undergraduate nursing students, was done by purposeful sampling strategies. the data were collected using se...

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