Iran Journal of Nursing
Year:2016 | Volume:29 | Issue:101|Papers Count:7

Background & Aims: Nausea and vomiting are common hard symptoms experienced by pregnant women in the first trimester. Nausea and vomiting of pregnancy (NVP) has adverse effects on the quality of a woman's life, social, relationship with family, and her general health. The aim of this study was determining the relationship between during pregnancy with anxiety and depression.Material & Methods: It was a descriptive, correlational study. Anxiety and depression scores of 220 women were investigated by using the Spielberger's state-trait anxiety questionnaire and the Edinburgh Depression Inventory. NVP were scored by using the pregnancy unique quantification of emesis and nausea (PUQE). Data was analyzed by SPSSver.16 and Chi-square, and spearman tests.Results: The frequency of nausea and vomiting in pregnancy was 83/6%. A significant correlation between incidence of nausea and vomiting of pregnancy and both anxiety and depression score (p<0.001) was found.Conclusion: There is an association between anxiety and depression early in pregnancy and severity of NVP. Furthermore, a psychological evaluation of the pregnant women in addition to other medical evaluation would be useful.

Background & Aim: Children under mechanical ventilation are at risk of developing pneumonia, due to the lack of cough reflex, swallowing and immobility. Many of the pneumonia preventing strategies related to ventilation are direct responsibilities of clinical nurses. The aim of the study was to evaluate the performance of nurses in the field of oral care in the children under mechanical ventilation.Method & Materials: The research was a cross-sectional- descriptive study and 100 nurses from pediatric intensive care unit were selected by using convenience sampling, during 2015. The instruments were including the demographic characteristics form and three types of performance checklist related to oral care guideline in the children under mechanical ventilation. The performance of each nurse was observed and examined by one of the three check lists for three times in different shifts. Then the performance of nurses was classified at three levels including less than 50%, between 50% - 74.9% and also 75% and above. Statistical analysis was performed using descriptive statistics.Results: More than half of nurses (67%) obtained below 50% of the mean performance score, 24% of them received 50% -74.9% of the mean and only 9% of them reached to 75% mean performance score. The most items related to wearing gloves (0.98) and the lowest was brushing (0%).Conclusion: The nurse’s performance in oral care was poor, hence it is necessary to design education course for nurses, provide proper facilities of evidence-based protocols in improvement of the quality of clinical care and conduct research about the causes of poor performance in nurses.

Background & Aims: Student satisfaction from preceptor is achieved when the student involves in patient care in clinical setting, he knows himself as part of the treatment team, experiences responsibility and authority, and in fact, encounters with learning outcomes. The aim of this study was to evaluate nursing students' satisfaction with supervision from preceptors during clinical practice.Material & Methods: It was a cross-sectional study. One hundred and twelve nursing students who had experienced preceptorship program participated in this study. To evaluate the nursing student satisfaction with supervision from preceptors “Nursing Facilitator Clinical Questionnaire” was used. Data were analyzed with t-test, ANOVA and Pearson correlation test by using SPSS version 16.Results: The mean score of nursing student satisfaction from preceptor was 100.25±18.85. There was correlation between nursing student satisfaction from preceptor and age, living place, academic semester, apprenticeship / internship duration, and apprenticeship / internship location (P<0.05).Conclusion: The study underlines that, the students had high satisfaction with supervision from preceptors. It seems that needs to more studies to evaluate effectiveness of this plan in nursing student’s competency improvement.

Background & Aims: Nursing report is one of the important documents in a patients’ record and it is also the best tool which can help to evaluate the nurses’ activities in 24-hour periods. Therefore, committing error in report writing may have consequences for a nurse. This study aims to determine the status of error reporting among nurses.Materials & Methods: This study is a descriptive-analytic one and the participants were all the nurses (161 Nurse) working at Yasuj Shahid Beheshti hospital of Yasuj, Iran in 2014. The data collecting tool was a researcher-made questionnaire that contains 19 questions about the demographic characteristics of nurses and the reporting error among them. The data was analyzed using descriptive statistics, coefficient of dispersion, t-test and ANOVA and SPSS software version 16.Results: Based on the findings of study, only 85/71% of the nurses have committed reporting error and writing long reports was the most frequent error (247 cases, 21%). The mean of error reporting for each nurse was 1.22 in a one-month period. There were significant relationships among reporting errors and the sex and work experiences of the nurses.Conclusion: The results showed that nursing reports have a poor quality. It seems that creating legal and cultural infrastructures for error reporting, developing the training programs and continuous monitoring are necessary to improve the quality of nursing reports.

Background & Aims: Nursing managers play an important role in the implementation of evidence-based practice (EBP) in clinical settings. Hence, their information literacy is an important prerequisite for providing this service. The objectives of this study were to examine information literacy of nursing managers and to determine their training needs in the context of EBP.Materials & Methods: This descriptive and cross-sectional study was conducted in four hospitals affiliated with Kerman University of Medical Sciences in 2014. Data were collected from 70 nursing managers of these hospitals using a questionnaire. Data were analyzed in SPSS 16 using descriptive (percentage, mean, standard deviation) and analytic statistics (t-test, analysis of variance).Results: The participants used more printed and human resources (1.97±0.97) than electronic resources to seek information. The mean scores of using different search features in online databases and search engines was very low (1.78±1.04). A small percentage of participants were aware of the purpose and functions of Boolean and Proximity operators, so that only 17% of them chose the most appropriate option to search information from a database. Educational need assessment showed that participants demand for training in different fields of EBP was at a medium level (3.89±0.97).Conclusion: Nursing managers do not possess required skills to search and retrieve information from electronic resources and they use these up-to-date resources scarcely. Because of this, they cannot guide and encourage nursing staffs to use the required knowledge and skills, as well as innovative techniques to provide a high quality care. It is recommended that future studies evaluate the role of clinical librarians, medical informaticians and clinical nurse educators for promoting information literacy of healthcare providers.

Background & Aims: Nurses' job satisfaction forms an extremely crucial part of their work-lives which can affect the patient's safety, the staff morale and nursing care quality and functioning. Pediatric patients are dependent on nurses to have had their needs met and nurses have significant role in pediatric wards of hospitals. The purpose of this study was to determine the level and effective factors affecting pediatric nurses' job satisfaction in hospitals affiliated with Ahwaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences, Iran.Materials & Methods: This cross- sectional, descriptive study was conducted in 2012 on 80 nurses working in pediatric wards in hospitals affiliated with Ahwaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences that were selected by census. Data were collected by using “Minnesota” job satisfaction questionnaire and were analyzed by descriptive statistics and T-test and Mann Whitney test utilizing SPSS version 16.Results: The job satisfaction level turned out to be the average in 55 percent of the nurses and high in 45 percent of them. The mean score of pediatric nurses' job satisfaction was 72.86± 10.93. The findings showed that the relationship between the nurses' job satisfaction and their interest in nursing profession was significant (P<0.05). The relationship between the nurses' job satisfaction and their being employed in several hospitals was statistically significant (P<0.05).Conclusion: Considering the current research findings, different difficulties such as lack of interest in nursing profession have led to the average level of pediatric nurses' job satisfaction. Therefore, it is essential that the authorities and nursing managers utilize some strategies to boost the interest and motivation of pediatric nurses.