Journal of Education and Health Promotion

Assessment of knowledge and practice of cardiovascular nurses regarding warfarin

. Maryam Ehsani; . Mansoureh Ashghali Farahani; . Shima Haghani; . Shiva Khaleghparast; . Mahboubeh Malekmohammadi Memar

Volume 12, Issue 7 , August 2022, , Pages 1-7

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BACKGROUND: Despite new anticoagulants’ developments, warfarin is still one of the mostcommonly used medicines, particularly in the cardiovascular system. One of the significant ... Read More BACKGROUND: Despite new anticoagulants’ developments, warfarin is still one of the mostcommonly used medicines, particularly in the cardiovascular system. One of the significant challengeswith warfarin is the prevalence of dangerous side effects such as bleeding and drug and foodinteractions, which can negatively affect patients if not adequately controlled. As health‑care teammembers, nurses have a crucial role in prescribing this medicine and educating patients. In thisregard, this study was conducted to determine the knowledge and practice of nurses working in thecardiovascular wards regarding warfarin.MATERIALS AND METHODS: In this cross‑sectional, descriptive study, knowledge and practiceof 239 nurses working in the cardiovascular wards of teaching hospitals affiliated to Iran Universityof Medical Sciences have been investigated using European Cardiovascular Nurses Knowledgequestionnaire on anticoagulants and the checklist for high‑risk drugs safety instructions. The samplingwas performed through the stratified sampling method with proportional allocation. Data were analyzedusing the SPSS software version 16 through descriptive and inferential statistics (independent t‑test,one‑way analysis of variance, and Pearson correlation coefficient) (Inc., Chicago, IL, USA).RESULTS: The mean scores of knowledge (18.51 ± 3.87) and practice (10.53 ± 2.12) wereslightly higher than the median, and the lowest mean score was related to knowledge on druginteractions (7.62). The practice had a statistically significant relationship with knowledge (P ˂ 0.001).Regarding demographic variables, there was a statistically significant relationship between nurses’knowledge and the education level (P = 0.009) and nurses’ practice and age (P = 0.022), workexperience (P = 0.032), and work experience in cardiovascular wards (P = 0.036).CONCLUSIONS: Based on the findings of this study, the knowledge of nurses working in thecardiovascular wards about warfarin was not sufficient, and their practice was of poor quality. Nurses’lack of knowledge and improper practice can jeopardize drug safety in patients and cause seriousside effects such as bleeding. Proper training of nursing students and nurses about warfarin as ahigh‑risk drug, its side effects, and drug‑food interactions, and the emphasis on patient education inpatients receiving this medicine can effectively reduce the incidence of side effects.

Perceived stress and quality of life among frontline nurses fighting against COVID‑19: A web‑based cross‑sectional study

. Sajedeh Amjadi; . Sepideh Mohammadi; . Ali Khojastehrad

Volume 12, Issue 4 , April 2022, , Pages 1-7

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BACKGROUND: The coronavirus disease‑2019 (COVID‑19) crisis has changed many aspects of frontline nurses’ lives. Nurses caring for patients with COVID‑19 reported experiencing ... Read More

Effect of spiritual intelligence training on nurses’ skills for communicating with patients – an experimental study

. Mansour Arad; . Leyla Alilu; . Hosein Habibzadeh; . Hamidreza Khalkhali; . Rasoul Goli

Volume 12, Issue 4 , April 2022, , Pages 1-8

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BACKGROUND: Since poor communication with the patient has a negative impact on the quality of nursing care, taking the necessary measures to strengthen the relationship with the ... Read More

Job burnout among nurses during COVID‑19 pandemic: A systematic review

. Mahdi Zareei; . Zeinab Tabanejad; . Fatemeh Oskouie; . Abbas Ebadi; . Morteza Mesri

Volume 12, Issue 3 , March 2022, , Pages 1-5

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BACKGROUND: Nurses are in close contact with COVID‑19 patients and due to the high risk of infection, they experience fear and anxiety that can result in burnout. This study ... Read More

A survey of nurses, midwives, and physicians attitudes in regard to health reform plan at Jahrom University of Medical Sciences in 2020

. Yasaman Pourfarid; . Mohsen Hojan

Volume 12, Issue 2 , February 2022, , Pages 1-4

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BACKGROUND: The health reform plan (HRP) is a plan to improve Iran’s health systems that began in 2014. The three main approaches of this plan include financial protection ... Read More BACKGROUND: The health reform plan (HRP) is a plan to improve Iran’s health systems that began in 2014. The three main approaches of this plan include financial protection of the people, creating justice in access to health services, and improving the quality of services. It predicted that the level of health system responsiveness would increase. Achieving this goal is possible only with the correct implementation. The best people to measure the correct implementation are nurses, midwives, and physicians. Hence, this study was conducted to assess the attitude of nurses, midwives, and physicians about the implementation of the HRP.MATERIALS AND METHODS: This cross‑sectional descriptive study was conducted in educational hospitals of Jahrom University of Medical Sciences in 2020. By convenience sampling method, 325 nurses, midwives, and physicians participated in this study. Sampling was done in all work shifts, and in all wards. A researcher‑making questionnaire was used to collect data. The scoring did by the Likert scale from (completely agree = 4 to completely disagree = 1). Quantitative and qualitative face and content validity was calculated (IS: 0.84, CVI: 0.92, CVR: 0.87), and its reliability was calculated by Cronbach’s alpha method (0.78). The data were analyzed by SPSS software version 16. Descriptive statistics, Mann–Whitney U‑test, and Kruskal–Wallis test were used for the data analysis (P ≤ 0.05).RESULTS: In the study, 90.15% agreed with the implementation of the HRP. There was no significant difference between the male and female (P = 0.063). There was a significant difference between the educational degree (P = 0.006), married and the single participants’ attitude (P = 0.003), the nurses, midwives, and physicians (P = 0.001).CONCLUSION: HRP is more successful in the field of financial protection, so policymakers should pay more attention to justice in access to health services and improving the quality of services fields.

Exploring the experiences of nurses and physicians infected with COVID‑19

. Maryam Moghimian; . Kolsoum Farzi; . Sedigheh Farzi; . Azam Moladoost; . Simin Safiri

Volume 12, Issue 1 , January 2022, , Pages 1-8

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BACKGROUND: Health‑care providers, including physicians and nurses, are vital resources of thehealth‑care system, and their health is essential to ensure safe care and to control ... Read More

Knowledge and attitude toward professional ethics: A study among Iranian medical and nursing students’

. Poria Hoseinialiabadi; . Ali Omidi; . Mansour Arab; . Zohreh Makarem; . Mojtaba Jafari

Volume 12, Issue 1 , January 2022, , Pages 1-5

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BACKGROUND: Professional ethics is a set of principles and standards of human behavior thataffect individual behavior and leads to improve care that provided by medical staff. The presentstudy ... Read More

The acceptance level of Hospital Information Management System (HIMS) among the nursing officials working in a teaching hospital

. Mahesh Mahla; . Shweta Talati; . Anil Kumar Gupta; . Ritesh Agarwal; . Shailesh Tripathi; . Sudip Bhattacharya

Volume 11, Issue 11 , December 2021, , Pages 1-8

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BACKGROUND: The acceptability of hospital staff in the use of hospital information managementsystem (HIMS) is an emerging research area it can explain the fate of any HIMS development ... Read More

Anxiety, stress and depression levels among nurses of educational hospitals in Iran: Time of performing nursing care for suspected and confirmed COVID‑19 patients

. Hojjat Sheikhbardsiri; . Mohammad Mahdi Doustmohammadi1; . Parya Jangipour Afshar; . Majid Heidarijamebozorgi; . Hamidreza Khankeh; . Mehdi Beyramijam

Volume 11, Issue 11 , December 2021, , Pages 1-6

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BACKGROUND: Following the global emergency of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‑19),health‑care workers, especially nurses were encountered with an increasing workload. Therefore, ... Read More

Competence in providing spiritual care and its relationship with spiritual well‑being among Iranian nurses

. Mojtaba Jafari; . Masoud Fallahi-Khoshknab

Volume 11, Issue 9 , October 2021, , Pages 1-5

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BACKGROUND: Competence in providing spiritual care to patients has become an increasinglyimportant aspect of nursing care delivery. However, studies on nurses’ competence in spiritual ... Read More

Improvement of medication error reporting: An applied motivation program in pediatric units

. Laleh Massah; . Rouhangiz Mohammadi; . Mahboobeh Namnabati

Volume 11, Issue 4 , May 2021, , Pages 1-6

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BACKGROUND: The rate of reporting medication errors is lower than the actual rate. The role ofeducation, encouragement, and promotion of reporting culture can contribute to the increase ... Read More

Predictors of cognitive emotion regulation strategies: Iranian nurses

. Sakineh Moghaddam Zeabadi; . Fatemeh Hasandoost; . Maryam Momeni; . Amir Hossein Goudarzian; . Seyedehzahra Hosseinigolafshani

Volume 11, Issue 4 , May 2021, , Pages 1-6

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BACKGROUND: Nurses have a challenging job and encounter more stressful situations. Inresponse to these situations, they demonstrate adaptive or maladaptive cognitive emotion regulationstrategies ... Read More

Determining the relationship between emotional intelligence and interpersonal sensitivity with quality of work life in nurses

. Saeed Tajigharajeh; . Mehdi Safari; . Tahere Sarboozi Hosein Abadi; . Shoaib Sarboozi Hosein Abadi; . Mehdi Kargar; . Mahmoud Panahi; . Mahdi Hasani; . Zeinab Ghaedchukamei

Volume 11, Issue 4 , May 2021, , Pages 1-9

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BACKGROUND: Emotional intelligence and interpersonal sensitivity are known as important nursingskills. They have significant role in the promotion of nurses working life and the health ... Read More

A study of cardiopulmonary resuscitation literacy among the personnel of universities of medical sciences based in Kermanshah and Khuzestan provinces based on the latest 2015 cardiopulmonary resuscitation guidelines

. Reza Pourmirza Kalhori; . Marzieh Najafi; . Azadeh Foroughinia; . Fatemeh Mahmoodi

Volume 11, Issue 1 , January 2021, , Pages 1-8

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INTRODUCTION: Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) is regarded as the most important skill ofthe medical staff who is required to be aware of the latest changes to the CPR guidelines ... Read More INTRODUCTION: Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) is regarded as the most important skill ofthe medical staff who is required to be aware of the latest changes to the CPR guidelines so thatthey can take the most effective actions in the critical conditions of CPR. Therefore, the presentstudy aimed to determine the levels of CPR literacy among the personnel of universities of medicalsciences based in Kermanshah and Khuzestan provinces based on the latest 2015 CPR guidelinesin 2019.MATERIALS AND METHODS: In this descriptive, analytical, cross‑sectional study, 525 subjectswere selected as the sample population using the two‑stage cluster sampling. For datacollection, a researcher‑made questionnaire was used, whose content validity and reliability wereconfirmed (r = 0.71). The study screened the data received and analyzed valid data set through thettest and Spearman’s correlation coefficient by incorporating SPSS Statistics software version 23.0.In addition, P < 0.05 was considered statistically significant.RESULTS: The 2015 CPR literacy levels of the samples were as follows: excellent (85 subjects or16.2%), good (404 subjects or 77%), and average (36 subjects or 6.9%). The results of Pearson’scorrelation coefficient revealed a weak and inverse relationship between the levels of CPR literacyand the age of samples (r = −0.092) and work experience (−0.029), which were statistically significant.In addition, the results of Mann–Whitney U‑test demonstrated that the level of CPR literacy amongthe personnel of Ahwaz University of Medical Sciences exceeded that among the personnel ofKermanshah University of Medical Sciences (P < 0.001).CONCLUSION: It is suggested that in retraining the nursing and paramedical personnel, CPR becarried out with more emphasis on the changes introduced in this guideline compared to that in 2010,including esophageal tracheal airway, reasons for the cessation of CPR, intraosseous infusion, andinduced hypothermia.

Exploring the process of turning back to professional nursing practice in Iran: A grounded theory

. Nooredin Mohammadi; . Naiemeh Seyedfatemi; . Alireza Nikbakht Nasrabadi; . Mokhtar Mahmoudi

Volume 10, Issue 9 , September 2020, , Pages 1-9

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BACKGROUND: The current nursing shortage is complicated because of turnover intentionamong nurses. Most of the inactive nurses returned to professional nursing practice. Returned toprofessional ... Read More

Investigation of the relationship between the safety climate and occupational fatigue among the nurses of educational hospitals in Zabol

. Mohsen Poursadeqiyan; . Maryam Feiz Arefi; . Saeed Khaleghi; . Ali Sadeghi Moghaddam; . Ehsan Mazloumi; . Mehdi Raei; . Mahsa Hami; . Alireza Khammar

Volume 10, Issue 9 , September 2020, , Pages 1-9

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INTRODUCTION: Some working and organizational conditions, such as psychological stress andshift work, are factors that threaten the health of staff working in health centers. These ... Read More INTRODUCTION: Some working and organizational conditions, such as psychological stress andshift work, are factors that threaten the health of staff working in health centers. These factors cancause fatigue in a long time. Fatigue reduces the ability to process information and decrease torespond to hazardous conditions and will affect the safety of the environment. Therefore, the purposeof this study was to determine the relationship between safety climate and occupational fatigue innurses working in Zabol city.METHODS: This cross‑sectional study was performed on 143 nurses working in educational hospitalsof Zabol in 2019. The proportional sampling method was used, and the Swedish OccupationalFatigue Questionnaire and the Nurses Safety Questionnaire were used for data collection. Datawere analyzed using independent t‑test, analysis of variance, Mann–Whitney, Kruskal–Wallis tests,and SPSS‑21 software.RESULTS: In the present study, 57.3% were women and 42.7% were men. The mean score ofoccupational fatigue was 85.09 ± 41.49, and the mean score of safety climate was 67.15 ± 12.73. Thereis a significant inverse relationship between occupational fatigue and safety climate. The comparisonof safety climate and its subscales between occupational and demographic variables showed that thescore of male supervisors’ attitude was 01.36 ± 2.41 while the score of female supervisors’ attitudewas 8.88 ± 2.61, and this difference was significant. Furthermore, cumulative burnout, the attitude ofsupervisors, and the safety climate were significantly different between different educational levels.CONCLUSION: The results of this study showed that there is a relationship between occupationalfatigue and safety climate. Issues related to safety and risk factors in hospitals due to the high risk ofdisease outbreak and mortality, in addition to being economical, are important in terms of the humanaspect as well. In addition, the activity of nursing staff is more important compared to other groupsbecause of providing health care and communicating with patients; thus, more education about thesafety climate of the workplace environment in hospitals can reduce nurses’ fatigue.

The effect of performance feedback and educational video on endotracheal‑suctioning practices of critical care nurses

. Kobra Azizian; . Arman Azadi; . Yousef Veisani; . Mohammadreza Bastami

Volume 10, Issue 5 , May 2020, , Pages 1-7

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INTRODUCTION: Majority of critical care nurses do not have desirable skills in performingendotracheal tube suctioning (ETS) despite related training taught in the curricula. This study ... Read More

Utilizing mobile health method to emergency nurses’ knowledge about Emergency Severity Index triage

. Ahmadreza Yazdannik; . Elham Izadi Dsatjerdi; . Shahla Mohamadirizi

Volume 8, Issue 1 , January 2018, , Pages 1-5

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BACKGROUND: Mobile health has the potential to revolutionize the role of educators by empoweringnurses to take more responsibility for their own learning. Hence, this study was designed ... Read More

Investigation of the SWB and its relation with demographic parameters in patients with breast cancer referred to an oncology hospital affiliated to the Isfahan university of medical sciences

. Amir Musarezaie; . Homayoon Naji-Esfahani; . Tahere Momeni-Ghale ghasemi; . Jahangir Karimian; . Amroallah Ebrahimi

Volume 3, Issue 7 , July 2013, , Pages 1-7

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Background: Spiritual well‑being is well‑recognized as a factor that affects cancer patients’quality of life, quality of care, and satisfaction. There is evidence that supports ... Read More Background: Spiritual well‑being is well‑recognized as a factor that affects cancer patients’quality of life, quality of care, and satisfaction. There is evidence that supports the fact thatpatients’ spiritual needs are associated with better quality of care, higher hospice utilization,and less aggressive care at the end of life. However, few studies have examined the Spiritualwell‑being (SWB) in cancer patients. Less is known about spirituality; furthermore, no publishedresearch about SWB and its relationship with demographic parameters in breast cancerpatients exists; this made us carry out this project. Materials and Methods: This cross‑sectionalstudy was a descriptive – analytical one, conducted on 297 breast cancer patients, witha simple sampling methodology. The data collection instrument included a questionnairecontaining two parts (demographic information and standard SWB Scale questionnaire). Thedata were analyzed with 95% confidence by SPSS18, using descriptive and analytic statistics.Results: According to the results of the present study, SWB of most of the study subjects (52.52%)was at a moderate level. Results showed that the average score for religious aspect of spiritualwell‑being (RWB) was 51.38 ± 8.17 for 60, average score for the existential aspect of spiritualwell‑being (EWB) was 42.47 ± 10.21 for 60, and the total score of SWB was 93.69 ± 10.04 for 120.Based on the study findings, there was a statistically significant correlation between the SWB andage (P = 0.03, r = 0.59), educational level (P = 0.04, r = −0.58), and marital status (P = 0.001), ofbreast cancer patients. Conclusion: According to the results of the present study, the SWB ofmost study subjects was at a moderate level. Furthermore, according to the results there was acorrelation between some important demographic parameters in women with breast cancer andSWB. Hence, it is necessary for the treatment team to assess and improve the SWB of patients;meanwhile the role of nurses is highlighted. In fact, the nurse is the first person who can recognizethe spiritual needs of a patient and even his/her family, and can be effective in meeting the spiritualneeds and improving their SWB. Therefore, it is strongly recommended that in patients with cancer,a holistic care plan, based on spiritual care, development, and education of patients be applied, asit is considered to improve their SWB.

The survey of nurse’s knowledge and attitude toward cancer pain management: Application of Health Belief Model

. Hossein Shahnazi; . Hamid Saryazdi; . Gholamreza Sharifirad; . Akbar Hasanzadeh; . Abdurrahman Charkazi; . Mitra Moodi

Volume 2, Issue 2 , July 2012, , Pages 1-4

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Background: Effective cancer pain management requires accurate knowledge, attitudes,and assessment skills. The purpose of this study was to obtain information about theknowledge and ... Read More

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