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Akram Sadat Sadat Hosseini, Zohreh Vanaki,
Volume 5, Issue 1 (12-2011)
Abstract
Nurses face to a lot of different gender perspectives in their routine work. Cultural and social backgrounds influence gender stereotyping and it causes significant changes in nursing roles. This article reviews and analyzes the effect of gender on nursing. Gender perspective in nursing has affected services and quality of nursing practices. Although gender perspective affects health care system, its elimination is not beneficial. Because its elimination abducts nursing from its real spirit and disappoint women from exposing their emotional and mental abilities. Therefore gender stereotyping affects nursing from different dimensions and it will improve nursing profession by leading right way.
Mahnaz Sanjari, Farzaneh Zahedi, Maryam Aalaa, Maryam Peimani, Alireza Parsapoor, Kiarash Aramesh, Sadat Bagher-Maddah, Mohammad Ali Cheraghi, Ghazanfar Mirzabeigi, Bagher Larijani,
Volume 5, Issue 1 (12-2011)
Abstract
Quality of nursing care services directly influences individuals' health status. Compiling codes of ethics according to the religion and culture of each population could be an appropriate approach in improving quality of health care services especially nursing care. Hence, the most important priority in our national health system is developing ethical guidelines.
For this purpose a task force has been established in collaboration with nurses, physicians, lawyers and clergymen who were expert in the field of medical ethics. The code of ethics for Iranian nurses was drafted in 2010. The draft that included 12 values and 71 regulations of professional ethics were finally approved in the second session of the Ethics Supreme Council of the Ministry of Health and Medical Education on 6 March, 2010.
The values consist of concepts such as maintaining human dignity, adherence to professional obligations, accountability and responsibility, patient privacy, promotion of scientific and practical competence and respect to individual's autonomy.
Also, 71 regulations of professional ethics divided to five sections including "Nurse and Community" consisting of 9 items, "Nurse and Professional Commitments" with 14 items, "Nurse and Clinical Services" with 23 items, "The Nurse and Other Healthcare Providers in Medical Team" with 15 items, and also "Nurse, Education and Research" including 10 items.
Hadi Jafari Manesh, Mehdi Ranjbaran, Katayon Vakilian, Reza Tajik, Amir Almasi-Hashiani,
Volume 6, Issue 6 (2-2014)
Abstract
Assessing nursing students’ level of respect for ethical codes of nursing is essential as these students are the future health care providers. There is a need to check observance of ethics codes among students, because that will determine ethics education and training needs. This study aimed to assess nursing students’ compliance with professional ethical codes and some of the relevant factors.This is a descriptive-analytic and cross-sectional study performed by census on 118 nursing students who were training in hospitals of Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences. The data gathering tool consisted of a questionnaire including demographic information, and another questionnaire which was developed by the researcher based on studies in Iran and throughout the world.The ethical codes that were respected most included "principles of conflict management" and then "respect for the medical staff". "Respect for patients' rights" and "patient education" received less consideration. Grade point average, gender, marital status, interest in nursing and likelihood to work in nursing had significant association with respect for ethics codes.The results of this study can be used in developing courses on nursing ethics and educating nurses on the subject, and could be of special interest to health planners and policy makers.
Azam Pourama, Mansoureh Azizzadeh Forouzi, Azar Asadabadi,
Volume 7, Issue 6 (3-2015)
Abstract
Values in the nursing profession improve the quality of patient care and enhance job satisfaction among nurses. Therefore, promoting professional nursing values is an important aspect of nursing education. The purpose of the present study was to evaluate the professional values among nursing students in their last semester in nursing schools across Kerman province.A total of 152 students in their last semester in five schools of nursing across Kerman province (cities of Kerman, Bam, Jiroft, Zarand and Rafsanjan) participated in this cross-sectional study. Data were collected using a two-part questionnaire that included demographic variables and Nursing Professional Values Scale - Revised (NPVS-R) in five dimensions (caring, activism, trust, professionalism and justice). The reliability of the questionnaire using Cronbach's alpha coefficient was calculated at 0.91. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics (mean and standard deviation) and inferential non-parametric statistical tests (Mann-Whitney and Spearman’s rho correlation coefficient) in SPSS 18.Of the five dimensions of professional values, the highest mean score (37.8 ± 4.6) pertained to the caring dimension and the lowest mean score (12.68 ± 1.92) was related to the justice dimension. There was a significant negative correlation between age and professional values (r = - 0.02, P = 0.01). Results of the Mann-Whitney test showed a statistically significant difference between the mean scores of the justice, activism, trust and professionalism dimensions and sex (P < 0.05) and between the total mean score of professional values and the place of education (P = 0.003).From the perspective of students, the dimensions of professional values were prioritized in the following order: caring, trust, activism, professionalism and justice. Nevertheless, the majority of students were not aware of the importance of some dimensions of professional values. Therefore, appropriate planning and teaching methods and strategies are required to enhance all dimensions of professional values.
