Nursing And Midwifery Journal
Year:2019 | Volume:17 | Issue:1 (114)|Papers Count:8

Background & Aims: Educational program is a plan that includes policies, goals, strategies and action plans for the development of a system or educational institution within a given time frame that implements and evaluates the methods and resources needed to realize policies and goals therein forecasted. Comparing the educational programs of universities, and identifying the strengths and weakness of the current nursing curriculum make it possible to develop highly skilled learners and achieve the goals of the program. Materials & Methods: This descriptive-comparative study was conducted in 2018. Comparison was made based on Bereday pattern, and this pattern included four stages of description, interpretation, adjacent, and comparison. Results: Both countries have mission, vision and philosophy in accordance with the basic principles of strategic planning. We believe that by extending the knowledge boundaries of international high-profile countries, Australia wants to be an innovator in education and to become a global leader in research. Conclusion: The admission of the nominee is based on the individual's interest and attention to the individual's employment in the emergency department instead of exam. The variety and flexibility of the curriculum, and the definition of job positions in accordance with the units that have been completed, can lead to improved nursing care in this filed. Review and attention for modifying and using the experiences of leading universities is recommended.

Background & Aims: Students experienced high social anxiety because they facing with educational stresses and attend various groups, therefore, the aim of this study was to the role of rumination and perfectionism in explaining of social anxiety disorder in students. Materials & Methods: This is a descriptive-correlational study. The statistical population of the study was 13097 students in Azad University of urmia in the academic year of 2018. Using Kerjesi-Morgan table and by cluster sampling, 375 subjects (217 girls, 158 boys) were selected as the research sample and completed the social anxiety inventory of Connor et al (2000), perfectionism of Hill and et al (2004) and rumination scale of Nolen-Hoeksema and et al (1991). Data were analyzed by Pearson correlation coefficient and multiple regression using spss 19 software. Results: The results of Pearson correlation coefficient showed that there was a positive correlation between social anxiety and non-adaptive perfectionism (p < 0. 01) and rumination (p < 0. 01) and there was a negative relationship between social anxiety and adaptive perfectionism components (p < 0. 01). Also, the results of multiple regression showed that research variables predicted%13 of social anxiety of students. Conclusion: according to the results, perfectionism and rumination are one of the determining factors in explaining and predict of social anxiety in students. Future studies are necessary to confirm the results of this study.

Background & Aims: Detecting influential factors of sexual dysfunction could be essential in preventive and intervention strategies. The aim of this qualitative study was to explore the women’ s understanding of the origin of their sexual problems. Materials & Methods: Fifteen married women with sexual dysfunction aged 21-42 were interviewed in person as they were referred to Tehran University outpatient sexual health clinics to receive care and treatment. Sexual dysfunction approved by clinician judgment and standard questionnaires. Results: Appling directed content analysis, we applied from previous known themes of physiological, psychological, interpersonal and socio-cultural determinants of sexual dysfunction However, categories that constitute main themes were in some aspects different with those found in Western contexts specifically, in socio-cultural issues. In addition, the greatest focus of our participants was on sociocultural related factors such as financial pressures, life stressors and fatigue, lack of sexual knowledge, erroneous sexual beliefs and perfectionism. These findings revealed also some new attributing factors of sexual problems such as filiarchy. Conclusions: Our results suggest that socio-cultural determinants and theirs impacts need to be taken into account in delivering culturally sensitive interventions for treatment of women sexual problems.

Background & Aims: Students' curriculum textbooks play an important role in the formation of their professional identities and their learning. The study of the attitudes of people associated with a profession is necessary to create optimization in education and improve the performance of the individuals involved in it. The purpose of this study is to determine the attitude of midwifery in order to benefit more from midwifery textbooks in midwifery education. Therefore, the aim of this study is to design and assess the reliability and validity of midwifery attitude questionnaire towards midwifery lessons. Materials & Methods: This is an analytical study. To determine the content validity, the Lavasian table method was used. Acceptance of phrases based on the score of at least 0. 62 for content validity ratio and 0. 79 for content validity index. For reliability, the questionnaire was completed by 30 midwifery teachers and then reliability was calculated using Cronbach's alpha and acceptance criteria was 0. 75. The calculations were performed using SPSS software version 17. Results: According to interviews, 17 terms were determined. The three words were deleted because the content validity ratio was less than 0. 62. The average value of the content validity ratio for the remaining terms was 0. 83. Cronbach's alpha coefficient was 0. 89. Conclusion: The midwives' attitude about midwifery textbooks is a lasting instrument and can measure the attitudes of various midwifery groups such as instructors, students and midwifery graduates to midwifery lessons.

Background & Aim: Multiple sclerosis is one of the most common chronic neurological diseases. Fatigue is one of the most common and curable symptoms in this disease. The aim of this study was to determine the effect of cognitive-behavioral group intervention on the fatigue severity of patients with multiple sclerosis. Materials & Methods: The present study is a randomized clinical trial (experimental) design. The statistical population was selected from among the MS patients in Urmia who received the criteria and obtained the mean score in the questionnaires. They were selected by available sampling method. Then, they were randomly allocated into two groups of 40 intervention and control groups. The intervention group received nine sessions of one and a half hours, under the cognitive-behavioral group intervention, not held for the control group. After the intervention and one month later (twice), the two groups were tested by means of the research. Data analysis was done using SPSS software version 21, inferential and descriptive statistics. Results: The results of this study showed that the mean of fatigue scores in the intervention group after cognitive-behavioral therapy decreased (p <0. 001). Conclusion: Considering the positive results of cognitive-behavioral intervention in reducing fatigue in patients with MS, it is recommended that health care providers and nurses reduce their fatigue in these patients by implementing cognitive-behavioral intervention programs for patients with MS.

Background & Aim: Career success as an important concept, is associated with many professional and work outcomes such as error and absenteeism. Despite the importance of success in career, this concept is not clearly recognized in nursing. This study aimed to determine the predictive factors of nurses' career success. Methods & Materials: This cross-sectional study was conducted on 530 nurses working in educational hospitals of Tabriz in 2017. Random cluster sampling was performed and the data was collected using demographic and nurses' career success scale. Data was analyzed using descriptive statistics, t-test, oneway ANOVA, Pearson correlation coefficient and linear regression test in SPSS-21. Results: The mean and standard deviation of nurses' success score was 139. 14 ± 12. 82 (range= 39-195). According to the results of the regression, kind of the ward and documented incentive predicted 13. 5% of the variance of career success. Conclusion: According to the results, variables that indicate horizontal improvement and capacity enhancement can play a role in nursing career success. Also, since this study is one of the first studies in the field of nurses' career success, the results of this study can be used as a guide for nursing managers and nursing instructors in order to improve the position and success of nursing profession.

Background & Aim: Empathic concerns are one of the factors affecting the quality of nurses' professional life. The purpose of this study was to investigate the structural model of the relationship between empathic concerns and compassion satisfaction and compassion fatigue in intensive care units’ nurses. Materials and Method: The type of this descriptive-correlational research was structural equation modeling. Population comprised of all nurses working in NICU-ICU-CCU and dialysis units in Isfahan hospitals in 2017. Of these population, 250 nurses (men and women) working in intensive care units were selected in Alzahra, Nour, Ali Asghar, Amin and Kashani hospitals based on covenience sampling method and responded to the research tools included Stamms professional quality of life questionnaire and Davis empathic concerns. Data were analyzed using AMOS software. Results: The results showed that the structural model of the relationship between empathic concerns with compassion Satisfaction and compassion fatigue has an appropriate fitness, so that the empathic concerns variable accounted for 67% of the variance in compassion satisfaction and 13% of variance in compassion fatigue. Conclusion: Based on the results of this research the effect of empathic concerns on compassion satisfaction and compassion fatigue is significant (p  0/05).

Background & Aim: Hospital admission for elderly person can put them in a crisis situation. Also, treatment services are in an environment of multiple and complex factors. So safety compliance in the centers by health care providers as like as nurses, reduce disease prevalence and the damage, shortens duration of treatment or admission to hospital for them, be functional status improves and increases the patients' sense of well-being. This study aimed to evaluate nurses’ practice about elderly patients safety care hospitalized in medical wards of treatment & educational centers in Urmia, Iran in 2016. Materials & Methods: In this study, 50 nurses were randomly selected in a randomized sampling and the ratio of 3 times, their caring practice in different shifts were studied. The survey tool was a safe practice researcher-made check list. The results of the research were analyzed by a SPSS 22 software and Chi-square test, Mann-Whitney and Kruskal-Wallis. Results: In total, 61% of nurses had an optimal performance. The highest optimal performance was in the morning and afternoon shifts and within more experienced nurses. It was showed that there was a significant relation between nurses ‘ work experience and their safe practices (p ≤ 0. 05). Discussion: According safety standards and main objectives of the health systems for providing a qualified service, it is needed for educational programs to promote safe care. Common shifts in novice nurses and more experienced nurses should be considered.