Amir Pishgooie

AJA University of Medical Sciences | AJAUMS · Nursing Department

Nursing Management Challenges in the Face of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Military Hospitals: A Qualitative Study

Aims A significant number of chemical events happen every year in Iran, which may require admission and management of victims in the hospital. The results of studies have shown that Iranian hospitals, like many developing countries, are not sufficiently prepared for these events. The aim of this study was to explain the challenges of hospital prepa...

Background: Chemical incidents are among the most frequent technological disasters that have occurred frequently in recent years. Among the organizations operating in disaster response, hospitals, as the primary unit of care, play the greatest and most critical role. Hence, providing appropriate measures that lead to minimizing the effects of these...

Background and Aim: Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has caused a great deal of conflict and tension between couples and their families. Meanwhile, less attention has been paid to potential tensions and conflicts in families exposed to high stress, such as military families. Therefore, this study was conducted to investigate the effect...

Background: Disaster can pose significant challenges to the health infrastructure in the community. Hospitals are the central unit for providing health services in the disaster response plan. With regard to the vital role of military hospitals in health response to disaster, this study was carried out with the aim of investigating the disaster ris...

Introduction: Caring for patients treated with mechanical ventilation is of particular importance because of its complications. The occurrence of various diseases, including pneumonia and its resulting mortality, is affected by inadequate and improper implementation of principled and safe instructions by the care team, especially nurses. Objective:...

Objective: This study aimed to investigate the challenges of hospital disaster risk management so that it can take a step to provide strategies and interventions to remove these barriers and improve the hospital disaster risk management (HDRM) through identifying and introducing them to disaster experts. Methods: This is a systematic qualitative...

Introduction: Safe injection as a part of the quality and safe care, is one of the common methods of prescribing drugs. If safety standards are not observed, recipients and service providers may face many risks.

Introduction: Pain is a common and unpleasant complication reported by patients undergoing angioplasty following arterial sheath removal. Pain is one of the most common complications of arterial sheath removal in patients undergoing coronary artery angioplasty, which has been reported to be very unpleasant.

Introduction: Anxiety is one of the common symptoms and complications in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease that increases readmission and decreases the quality of life in these patients. Objective: This study aimed to determine the effect of controlled breathing exercises on Anxiety and Arterial Oxygen Saturation in chronic obstru...

Background Nurses, particularly critical care nurses, are exposed to high levels of stress and burnout. Burnout is associated with many deleterious consequences affecting health care outcomes. The present study is intended to determine the dimensions of burnout in nurses on surgical, medical and critical care units and its relationship with demogra...

Background Operating room nurses are one of the groups frequently expose to Disruptive Behaviors in different situations in the operating rooms that have different impacts on them and their performance. Recognition of DBs and their effects can help to offer strategies for better management of these behaviors. This study aimed to explore the experie...

Introduction: Communication skills and social compatibility have long been recognized as an important part of medical and nursing care. Nursing, due to its feature, requires high social compatibility, specially nurses in psychiatric ward whose main responsibilities are to create a relationship based on trust and motivation in patients to participat...

Background: Reporting errors has a key role in reducing the frequency of errors and improving patient safety. The present study was conducted to investigate factors affecting reporting of nursing errors in military hospitals. Materials and Methods: The present qualitative study was conducted with the participation of eight military nurses. Data we...

Background and objectives Nursing errors can cause irreparable consequences. Understanding the concept of error and the nature of nursing error detectors can significantly reduce this type of errors. The present study was conducted to explain the concept of error and the nature of nursing error detectors in military hospitals. Materials and method...

Introduction: Communication skills and social compatibility have long been

Introduction Cardiovascular diseases are the most significant cause of mortality. Although the risk factors of this disease are well known, the strength of these factors varies in different populations and needs to be investigated. Aim The aim of this study is to estimate the amount of the effect of each classic risk factor on CAD (coronary artery...

Background: Extensive application of radioactive materials to medical and military purposes justifies the necessity of training military nurse students regarding the management of radiation injury. The current study aimed at comparing the effect of two methods (lecture and web-based) of training on the management of radiation-injured patients among...

Background: Clinical nursing competence in mental health is one of the most important topics in theoretical and practical nursing training with many factors affecting it. The purpose of this study is to determine the impact of the implementation of the “mental health nursing students’ clinical competence model” on nursing students’ academic perform...

Background and Aim: Non-adherence to a treatment regimen is an obstacle to achieving therapeutic goals. This is a problem in patients with chronic conditions, especially in those with spinal cord injuries. This study aimed to determine the effect of a self-care training program on adherence to a therapeutic regimen in veterans with spinal cord inju...

Background and Aim: Manpower and their protection in war zones have special significance, and the lack of preservation of soldiers may lead to major changes in the outcome of the war. Due to the necessity to save lives, and to reduce human casualties caused by war wounds, it is necessary to provide self-aid facilities to soldiers before the medical...

Background: Ethical conflict is a barrier to decision-making process and is a problem derived from ethical responsibilities that nurses assume with care. Intensive care unit nurses are potentially exposed to this phenomenon. A deep study of the phenomenon can help prevent and treat it. Objectives: This study was aimed at determining the frequenc...

Aim To investigate the relationship between leadership style with nurse job stress and anticipated turnover. Background An Appropriate leadership style should promote the efficacy of nurses. Different leadership styles can affect nurse's job stress and the numbers of nurses leaving their workplace or their profession. Methods In this cross‐sectio...

Background: Clinical nursing competence in mental health is one of the most important topics in theoretical and practical nursing training with many factors affecting it. The purpose of this study is to determine the impact of the implementation of the “mental health nursing students’ clinical competence model” on nursing students’ academic perform...

Background and Aim: Knowing the factors affecting the life quality of subjects with coronary artery disease can help design their care program. The aim of this study was to determine quality of life and its effective factors in military patients and their relatives with coronary artery disease. Methods: This cross-sectional study was performed in m...

Background: Despite advances in postoperative pain control, it is still a big challenge with high-prevalence for practitioners. Inadequate control of postoperative acute pain is common which can lead to serious complications for patient. Objectives: This study aimed to compare massage therapy and music therapy in the control of postoperative pain a...

Introduction Ethical conflict is one of ICU nurses’ main problems, which rise for several reasons that must be measured. Unfortunately, there is no native instrument for measuring ethical conflicts for ICU nurses in Iran. One of the more suitable and new tools for the measurement of ethical conflict is called the “Ethical Conflict in Nursing Questi...

One of the factors in the success of each individuals job, is their beliefs in the ability of their strengths. Handling the changing situations, ambiguous, unpredictable and stressful, require multiple skills. The nursing profession is not just the ability to perform tasks, but having the ability to combine knowledge and attitudes into skills, to p...

Background Medication errors (MEs) are the most common types of medical errors which effecting on pediatric safety. For decrease MEs, we should to have information about difference aspects of MEs. We have no study which assessed the frequency, types and causes of MEs made by pediatric nurses, in Iran. Material and Methods This was a cross-sectional...

Background: Few studies have been conducted on role conflict in nursing faculty in the world. This research reports the first study about this subject in Iran. Objectives: The purpose of this research was to explore the experiences of role conflict in Iranian nursing faculty members. Materials and methods: We conducted a qualitative study usin...