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Majid Hassanpoor, Mohammadali Hosseini, Massod Fallahi Khoshknab, Abbas Abbaszadeh,
Volume 4, Issue 5 (10-2011)
Abstract
Making decisions for recipients of health care while offering clinical care is an important part of nurses’ responsibilities. In order to ensure patient satisfaction, nurses are obligated to observe ethical standards in the decision-making process. This paper aimed to determine the effect of teaching professional ethical principles on ethical sensitivity in nurses’ decision-making.
In this semi-empirical study, 80 Social Security nurses were selected through purposive sampling and were then randomly placed in two groups of 40 each, the intervention group and the control group. Research tool was the Ethical Sensitivity Scale Questionnaire for decision-making, the validity of which was assessed using content validity, and whose reliability was confirmed with a Cronbach’s alpha coefficient of 0.83 for internal consistency. At first the ethical sensitivity in decision-making was evaluated in both groups, and then an educational workshop on nursing ethics was held for the intervention group every other week the workshop consisted of 4 three-hour sessions, and upon completion of this workshop, both groups filled in the questionnaire once more, and data were analyzed using SPSS software.
There was no significant difference between the average ethical sensitivity in decision-making of the two groups before the intervention after the intervention, however, the difference was meaningful (P = 0.001). Moreover, the average ethical sensitivity in decision-making of the intervention group was significantly different after the intervention (P = 0.001).
Based on the findings of this study, teaching nursing ethical principles has a positive effect on nurses’ ethical sensitivity in decision-making. It is therefore recommended that this educational program be offered to nursing students and health care staff.
Mojgan Rahnama, Masood Fallahi Khoshknab, Sadat Seyed Bagher Madah, Fazollah Ahmadi,
Volume 5, Issue 3 (19 2012)
Abstract
Spiritual care includes assistance in performing religious rituals to support those seeking connection to the spiritual world. It forms an essential part of holistic care and helps finding answers to issues concerning life, pain, and death. This study was conducted to understand cancer patients' perception of spiritual care.A qualitative content analysis approach was applied to conduct the study. Semi-structured interviews were undertaken with convenience sampling of 17 cancer patients and their family members in oncology wards of a hospital in Tehran and Behnam Daheshpor Charity Organization. The recorded interviews were transcribed verbatim. For data reduction, data were labeled and coded before content analysis.The following themes were identified: characteristics and duties of nurses with a spiritual approach in religious and non religious domains, care with a spiritual approach in religious and non religious domains (emotional, communicational, functional), barriers to spiritual care.According to our findings, nurses do not satisfy all spiritual needs of the participants, because the characteristics and practices of nurses do not meet the expectations of patients and their family members, and ward environment does not support such care.
