Advances in Nursing and Midwifery
Year:2016 | Volume:26 | Issue:93|Papers Count:11

Background and Aim: Professional socialization is an important issue in nursing. This process creates a mechanism that group members think and act the same and finally will control over their actions. With growing expectation from nurses omits exits professional socialization dimensions such as independency, problem solving, responsibility, conducting research and competency of care delivery. Nevertheless, there are fewer problems with professionalism in nurse specialists and the levels of patient’s satisfaction of delivered services are increased, so the aim of this study is to evaluate the level of professional socialization of nursing student postgraduate degree.Materials and Methods: A descriptive study in Shahid Beheshti School of nursing and midwifery in 2015 was conducted. Population of study was the M.Sc. nursing student. Census Sampling was conducted and all students who wish to participate in the study were enrolled. The questionnaire was an instrument which was designed in a previous Ph.D. in nursing dissertation.Finding: The range of participant’s age was 23 to 45 with mean±SD 30.81±6.1 years. 79.4% of study units were female. The majority of students were married and live in urban area. Mean score of professional socialization of nursing students was 212±22.2 and it was ranged from 157 to 269.Conclusion: Based on the scores of professional socialization of M.Sc. nursing students, it was in a high level. The score was equal to the level of proficient and expert at Benner’s stages of clinical competence. It can be recommended that to make the learning of professional development and socialization from undergraduate level more effective the education in postgraduate degrees should be facilities. More collaboration between university and clinical environment should be provided.

Background and Aim: The health promotion behaviors are effective factors in prevention of diseases. The aim of this study was to determine, the health promotion behaviors and their relationship with demographic factors in people with multiple sclerosis.Materials and Methods: This study was a descriptive cross-sectional survey assessing health-promoting behaviors among patients with multiple sclerosis. 51 patients with multiple sclerosis referred to MS clinic of Al-Zahra Hospital were randomly selected. The health-promoting behaviors were measured using HPLP-II (Health Promotion Lifestyle profile-II) and Expanded Disability Status Scale (EDSS). Data were analyzed by independent t-test, Pearson Correlation, Spearman correlation and One-Way ANOVA.Findings: The overall health-promoting behaviors' profile had a mean±SD of 119.6±12. The highest mean in the sub-scales was for “spiritual growth” (22.8±3.8) and the lowest was for “physical activity” (15.3±3.52). The results indicated that there was not a significant difference between two genders. Pearson's correlation indicated a negative relationship between Expanded Disability Status Scale with mean of overall health-promoting behaviors' profile. There were also significant correlations between the levels of education with mean of overall health-promoting behaviors' profile.Conclusion: Regarding the situation of health-promoting behaviors, especially in physical activity sub-scale, providing programs to improve health promotion behaviors in people with multiple sclerosis are recommended.

Background and Aim: Emotional intelligence is one of the most important factors for success in all aspects of life. Emotional intelligence is the ability to recognize emotions in themselves and others, effective management of emotions, the emotions in their motivation and effective communication. Given the importance of the issue and the lack of nursing research in the field of emotional intelligence in Iran, in this article emotional intelligence in nursing, patterns and measurement methods were discussed.Materials and methods: After searching the database Ovid, Science Direct, Scopus, PubMed, SID, Magiran using keywords intelligence, emotional intelligence, nursing students, Information obtained after review of 47 sources.Conclusion: Emotional intelligence can be positive results, such as socio-emotional success, confidence is high, more life satisfaction, health and social commitment to the cause. Patterns of emotional intelligence considered and Different tools have been designed to measure this type of intelligence.

Introduction: In recent years, the Internet use greatly increased throughout the World. In between worrying about the bad effects of this phenomenon is on the rise. This study was examined the relationship between life satisfaction, loneliness and problematic Internet use.Materials and Methods: In this cross-sectional study, 348 individuals were referred to Coffee Net in Kerman in 2011 were surveyed. Life satisfaction questionnaire, UCLA Loneliness Scale and problematic Internet use questionnaire were used. The results were analyzed using the t-test, ANOVA and Pearson correlation.Results: The relationship between problematic Internet use, loneliness and life satisfaction was negatively correlated (P <0.05). Between problematic Internet use and loneliness, there was a positive correlation (P <0.05). Marital status, sex, use of services, Yahoo and Facebook and the Internet use at home, had an impact on the problematic use of the Internet.Conclusion: The association between problematic Internet use, loneliness and life satisfaction in this study was shown. To avoid complications, it is recommended that people use the Internet with control.

Background and Aim: Atopic Dermatitis (AD) or innate eczema is the most common chronic relapsing inflammatory skin diseases in infantile and childhood, which is rarely continued into adulthood. Family or personal history of atopy (e.g. asthma, allergic rhinitis or food sensitivity) is very common in children suffered from AD.Materials and Methods: Although the role of inflammatory processes in AD is well recognized, the exact pathogenesis of it is not fully understood. Therefore, comparison between AD and diseases described in traditional Iranian medicine (TIM) as a holistic medicine may open new horizons to the deeper comprehension and therapeutic approaches. In this study, we try to draw an analogy between AD and inflammatory skin rashes described in traditional Iranian medicine references. The lack of information of lesion's location, being chronic or recurrent and family or personal history of allergy in traditional Iranian medicine references led us to solely use the clinical manifestation. Hence, according to the major symptoms of AD, inflammatory rashes, pruritus, and xerosis are defined as the clinical manifestation of AD in this study. At the first step, we compare the symptoms and causes of inflammation skin rashes in traditional medicine and clinical manifestation with pathogenesis of AD in modern medicine. In the second step, we extract the similarities and differences between AD and inflammatory skin rashes described in TIM.Conclusion: The results reveal that, Namleh and Javarsiyeh have the most common symptoms to AD, among all diseases described in traditional Iranian medicine.

Aim and Background: Birth of a kid lead to disturbance of the mothers emotions and such as emotions, pleasure and even fears, and also could result the consequence which is postpartum depression. The aim of present study is meta- analysis of were researches about the effectiveness of psychological interventions on postpartum depression in Iran, considering to the Moderating role of Therapeutic intervention.Methods and Materials: In order to this, 14 researches with intended criteria to this study were selected and the metaanalysis accomplished. The meta- analysis check list was used as the tool. Calculation were done by use of 1- Hunter & Schmidt 2- Hedges & Olkin and 3- Rosenthal.Findings and Conclusions: Findings showed that effect size of the intervention on postpartum depression was 0.562. According to the conclusions, the rate of effect size of those interventions which were based on efforts and motives was more than that of interventions which theirs subjects were not motivated enough. According to the finding of the research some practical recommendations to the reduction of postpartum depression were suggested. The important point was the grater effectiveness of psychotherapy in comparison with prenatal education of mothers.

Background and aim: With regard to cardiovascular problems for older people due to lack of movement, The aim of the present study was redirected to an 8-week Tai Chi exercise on cardiovascular disease risk factors, including cholesterol (C), triglycerides (TG), high density lipoprotein (HDL-C), low density lipoprotein (LDL-C) and blood pressure in women elderly.Materials and methods: 30 subjects were selected living in a nursing home in Tehran in two groups randomly: Tai Chi and walking. On the first day and last day blood samples were taken from subjects to measure variables, and were compared between the two groups.Findings: Intragroup and intergroup results showed that both groups can have positive effects on lipid profile but changes in the tai chi group had significantly.Conclusion: Tai Chi had a significant reduction in LDL-C and significant increase in HDL-C, but the Tai Chi group had no significant effect in the levels of cholesterol and triglycerides.

Background and Aim: Professional socialization is the process of gaining and internalizing knowledge, skills, values, attitudes, beliefs and behaviors of a specific profession. Through the process gradually, a sense of belonging, and unique professional identity will develop. The aim of this study was to review the barriers, conditions and facilitators of nurses' professional socialization.Materials and Methods: This is a review article. Electronic journals and databases such as CINAHL, Embase, Medline, Scopus, Science Direct, MD Consult, OVID, Google Scholar was searched to find studies have been investigated the various aspects of "professional socialization of nurses.Results: The results showed that the work environment and corporate culture, the gaps between theory and practice in nursing and community's attitude toward nursing profession are effective factors in nurses' professional socialization. Promote personal and professional capabilities, reform of resources and organizational structure and training structure, are the strategies for improving nurse's socialization.Conclusion: Among the factors involved in nurses' socialization, formal education system and teachers can have the greatest impact positively or negatively on the professional growth and development of nurses. Therefore, planning to facilitate and promote the professional socialization of nurses, with emphasis on improving the education system and bridging the gap between theory and practice should be considered.