Leila Valizadeh

Tabriz University of Medical Sciences | TBZMED · Department of Pediatric Nursing

This study explored Iranian patients' experiences of cancer disclosure, paying particular attention to the ways of disclosure. Twenty cancer patients were invited to participate in this qualitative inquiry by research staff in the clinical setting. In-depth, semistructured interview data were analyzed through content analysis. The rigor of the stud...

Background: Sleep-deprivation in children decreases the quality of life and endangers health. Increasing mother’s level of awareness can help improve the children’s sleep schedule and avoid many associated problems. Objectives: This study aimed to investigate the effect of SMS-based education on the level of sleep knowledge in mothers with 7 - 12 y...

Background: One of the essential aspects of the provision of care is cultural issues. Cultural sensitivity is the key for cultural care. The aim of this study was to explore culturally sensitive care in pediatric nursing care in Iran.Materials and Methods: This study was a conventional content analysis. Participants were consisted of 25 nurses and...

Introduction: Although the survival rate of infants born preterm has increased, the prevalence of developmental problems and motor disorders among this population of infants remains the same. This study investigated the effect of physical activity programs in and out of water on motor performance and neuromuscular development of infants born preter...

Background Nurses’ professional competencies play a significant role in providing safe care to patients. Identifying the acquired and expected competencies in nursing education and the gaps between them can be a good guide for nursing education institutions to improve their educational practices. Methods In a descriptive-comparative study, student...

Background The TPSN model is an innovative model to create an integration and structured relationship between educational and healthcare provider institutions. This model is done to reduce the theoretical-practical gap in nursing. The present study aimed to explore the experiences of nursing students. Methods In a conventional content analysis, 11...

Background Donabedian conceptual and multidimensional framework has been used in several studies in an educational context. In this study, we aimed to adapt the Donabedian three-component model (structure, process, and outcome) in undergraduate nursing education. This conceptual framework provides a comprehensive image of nursing education institut...

BACKGROUND The comparison of the educational curriculum improves the content and quality of the curriculum and needs to be revised and modified in line with the current needs of society. Development of nursing knowledge, the emergence of emerging diseases requires that the nursing curriculum be codified and provide the necessary skills to provide q...

Background Improvements in nurses’ and midwives’ education will increase workforce quantity and quality. Continual improvement of organization performance is based on continual measuring; Appropriate indicators must be selected to measure and appraise the performances. This study aimed to recognize and categorize key performance indicators (KPIs) f...

Objective Nursing students’ attainment of patient safety (PS) competency has always been a global concern among health and educational organisations. Therefore, this study was conducted to determine senior nursing students’ confidence of their PS competencies, and associated predictive factors. Design Cross-sectional study. Setting Four faculties...

Aim: To assess the barriers to the implementation of virtual care for patients with chronic wounds from wound therapists' perspective. Design: A qualitative study. Methods: The study was conducted in two consecutive phases: (1) literature review, (2) descriptive qualitative study. In the first phase, texts published in English until 2023 were...

BACKGROUND: One of the main issues related to the inefficiency of the health system is the lack of sufficient communication between researchers and health policymakers regarding the exchange of the latest findings and the use of inappropriate evidence to manage cases. The knowledge translation removes this disconnect. MATERIALS AND METHODS: In this...

Background Maintaining patient safety is a practical standard that is a priority in nursing education. One of the main roles of clinical instructors is to evaluate students and identify if students exhibit unsafe clinical practice early to support their remediation. This study was conducted to identify self-presentation components among nursing stu...

Aim: Nursing diagnosis is the basis of applying nursing process and evidence-based care in nursing. This issue has been affected by the gap between theory-practice in nursing. The attending nursing teachers Project aims to create an organizational link between health care centres and nursing schools, reducing the gap between theory-practice and em...

Aim: The objective of this study was to validate the Iranian translation and cross-cultural adaptation of the Student Survey on Writing Nursing Care Plan (SSW-NCP). Background: To provide supporting evidence about the nursing students' skill in planning and documenting nursing care plans based on nursing process, Salvador et al. developed the SS...

Purpose: Due to necessity of immediate support strategies for nurses during COVID-19 pandemic and lack of comprehensive and applied standard guidelines, the present study was conducted to develop stress management protocol for nurses working in COVID-19 wards with an approach based on the best scientific evidences. Methods: This descriptive meth...

Background Ethics-based nursing practice can transform health care practices. As the biggest human capital in the health care system, nurses are obliged to follow ethical principles in this field. One of these ethical principles; is beneficence, which is considered the core of nursing care. This study aimed to investigate clarification of the princ...

Background To facilitate the development of clinical reasoning skills in nursing students, educators must possess the ability to teach and evaluate them. This study aimed to describe the development and validation process of an analytic rubric of clinical reasoning skills based on the nursing process in undergraduate nursing students. Methods A se...

Aim: This study was conducted to describe the perceptions of nursing applicants about their chosen profession and to explore the factors which influenced their understanding. Design: A qualitative study with a conventional content analysis design. Methods: Participants were 19 nursing applicants enrolling in nursing schools in three provinces...

For virtual care models to be able to improve the safety and quality of care, it is essential to identify the strengths and weaknesses of virtual care. In this Scoping review, literature published on virtual care was identified using international databases. The results of the included studies were summarized using a predefined taxonomy. In total,...

"Background and aim: Nursing journal clubs have a proven value in nursing education and continuing education, which has expanded widely in the promotion of evidence-based clinical care in recent years. This study aimed to evaluate the clinical nursing journal clubs from the viewpoints of nurses. Methods: This descriptive study was conducted from Ju...

Objectives In this qualitative study, we specify important domains of a nursing education institution that need to be measured to represent its performance via students’ perspectives, one of the most important stakeholders in higher education. Setting This study was conducted in a nursing and midwifery faculty. Participants Participants were bach...

Background There are still concerns about the effectiveness of clinical education models which are done with the aim of reducing the theoretical-practical gap in nursing. In this article, we intend to describe an innovative model to create an integration and structured relationship between educational and healthcare provider institutions. The basis...

Background: Ethics-based nursing practice can transform health care practices. As the biggest human capital in the health care system, nurses are obliged to follow the ethical principles in this field. One of these ethical principles; is beneficence, which is considered the core of nursing care. This study aimed to investigate the ethical principle...

To understand the concept of dignity in care and use it in practice, nurses need a clear understanding of the dignity of patients, which can help them improve quality of care and provide services of a higher standard. This study aims to clarify the concept of human dignity of patients in nursing. Walker and Avant’s method (2011) was used for this c...

Background The journal club has been proposed as a tool to fill the gap between theory and practice using the essential components involved in medical processes and evidence-based practice in many literatures. Aim The present research is an integrative review that combined the existing studies in the field of evidence-based nursing through a journ...

Compassion, as an indicator for quality care, is highly valued by patients and healthcare professionals. Compassionate care is considered a moral dimension of nursing practice and an essential component of high quality care. This study aimed to answer these questions: (1) What are the facilitators and barriers of providing compassionate nursing car...

Hospitalized neonates are exposed to numerous interventions by the medical teams. Therefore; maintaining skin integrity is essential. The aim of this study was to investigate the types, causes, and areas of skin injuries in neonates admitted to the three Iranian neonatal intensive care units. This study utilized a cross-sectional descriptive method...

Background: Planning for the issuance of professional competency examination has been put on the agenda of professional policymakers, but the ways of evaluating and conducting examinations and its dimensions are the main challenges. The present study aimed to explain the essential dimensions of professional competency examination in Iran from acad...

Results: The review resulted in the characteristics of efficacy, comparative effectiveness and cost-effectiveness research. Also nursing experts mentioned the importance and existing obstacles to conduct effectiveness studies. Conclusion: The main conclusion of conducting efficacy and effectiveness research which produces complementary evidence is...

Background Nurses are at the forefront of patient care during infectious disease pandemics and they play a key role in treating and preventing the upward trend of the disease. Hence, it is crucial to consider their experiences in designing action plans to combat coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Since there is not enough data in this regard, the...

Aim There is a lack of clarity about the components which would signify appropriate psychological strengths among nursing student candidates. This study was conducted to identify such components from the viewpoint of the clinical nurses and nursing instructors. Design A qualitative study. Methods This study comprised qualitative research using a...

Background Defining the disrupted mothering would contribute to developing strategies to support mothers with breast cancer. The aim of this study was to analyze the concept of mothering disruption using a hybrid model. Methods The Hybrid method for concept analysis was implemented consisting of three phases: theoretical, fieldwork, and final anal...

Background The Nursing Talent Identification self-report Scale is a recently developed to assess the fit of nursing applicants’ characteristics for the profession. In such scales, respondents may perceive items in a variety of ways. Hence, while developing such scales, cognitive interviews are used to identify problematic and ambiguous items. The p...

Objective: The Nursing Talent Identification self-report Scale is a recently developed to assess the fit of nursing applicants’ characteristics for the profession. In such scales, respondents may perceive items in a variety of ways.The present study aimed to determine how respondents understand and answer to items through cognitive interviews to as...

Background Assessment of clinical competence of nursing students is necessary to ensure safe practice and the realization of professional clinical standards. An Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE) is commonly used internationally in nursing education programs to assess clinical competence, but is a new process in Iranian nursing curric...

Background and Aim: In the current Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, there have been many concerns about the transmission of the virus from the mother to the infant. This is more important due to the need for the management of breastfeeding. This study aims to review the latest studies on breastfeeding during the COVID-19 pandemic. Meth...

Background The nurses are at the forefront of patient care during an infectious disease pandemic, and play a key role in treating and preventing the upward trend. Hence, it is crucial to consider their experiences in designing action plans to combat coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Since there is not enough data in this regard, the current stud...

Aim To explore the concept of assertiveness in the patients with thalassaemia major. Design It was a qualitative study with a conventional content analysis design. Method Data were collected using a semi‐structured interview. The research sample included 16 patients with thalassaemia major who were selected using purposeful sampling method from a...

Background: The short course of baccalaureate nursing program and overcrowding of clinical settings restrict the development of pediatric peripheral venous catheter (PVC) insertion skill among nursing students. Therefore, better teaching strategies are needed. Objectives: The aim of this study was to compare the effects of role play simulation and...

Context: Self-efficacy is one of the important determinants of the behaviors that influence the physical and psychological health among patients with chronic medical conditions. Aims: This study was aimed to investigate the factors that influence the self-efficacy of patients with thalassemia. Setting and Design: This was a qualitative study using...

In late December 2019, Wuhan, China, became the center of an unknown outbreak of pneumonia that spread rapidly throughout China and around the world, including Iran, and the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the novel disease a public health emergency with global concern. Since the COVID-19 outbreak, many studies have been performed on epide...

Background Nursing education institutions are required to select and train applicants who have appropriate characteristics for delivering effective healthcare. Unlike other healthcare professions and despite the need to attract and select a competent workforce, there has been no comprehensive analysis of the selection criteria and methods used to r...

Aim To develop and test the psychometric properties of an instrument assessing career success in nurses. Background Despite the importance of achieving success in nursing, to date, this construct has been measured using unidimensional or generic scales not fully reflecting career success as perceived by nurses. Methods This scale development stud...

Introduction: Many nurses face challenges of implementing evidence-based practice as a problem-solving approach in the field of health care. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to summarize and report structurally the results of various studies conducted in this field to identify challenges and strategies for implementing evidence-based practi...

Background & Aim: Patient-centered care is considered a pivotal element of the mission of the healthcare system around the world. However implementing Patient-centered care is not always easy and nurses have admitted this fact reluctantly. The evidence suggests that the first step in implementing Patient-centered care is to change the professionals...

Background: Nursing education institutions are required to select and train applicants who have appropriate characteristics for delivering effective healthcare. Unlike other healthcare professions and despite the need to attract and select a competent workforce, there has been no comprehensive analysis of the selection criteria and methods used to...

Background: Nursing education institutions are required to select and train applicants who have appropriate characteristics for delivering effective healthcare. Unlike other healthcare professions and despite the need to attract and select a competent workforce, there has been no comprehensive analysis of the selection criteria and methods used to...

Purpose The self-care concept is a complicated and multi-dimensional phenomenon. There are different opinions about self-care needs; therefore, this study was conducted to clarify the self-care needs of the off-therapy childhood cancer survivors based on the hybrid model. Patients and Methods There are three phases in the hybrid model including li...

Aim: To identify and document patients' care needs, it is vital to provide quality care services. This study was aimed to describe care needs derived from records of patients with burn and to evaluate whether nurses employed the North American Nursing Diagnosis Association classification to formulate patients' care needs. Design: A descriptive c...

Background & Aim: Considering that the main responsibility of the nurses is to give care to the patients, concept analysis of good care by providing a clear definition will promote nursing practice and quality of healthcare. This study aims to clarify the concept of good care through the use of Rodgers's evolutionary approach. Methods & Materials:...

Background: Children's sleep problems can negatively affect their daily functioning at home and school, their behaviors, and their health status. Education through short message service (SMS) is among the techniques with potential positive effects. However, no study is available on the effects of SMS-based sleep education on sleep among children. O...

Objective: In cancer care management, patients or their family are usually responsible for continuing health care. Achieving this goal requires identification of their self-care needs. The purpose of this study is to explore the perception of self-care needs of adolescent cancer survivors. Methods: This study was conducted by the qualitative con...

Aims: This review study aimed to investigate the strategies for implementing the nursing process in the clinical practice and the assessment of the implementation rate of this process in clinical settings of lower-income countries. Design: An integrative review. Method: The search was conducted of EMBASE, MEDLINE, CINAHL, Scopus and ISI databa...

Aim: Health service providers are appreciated among the vital components in a society wherein nurses are also considered as the main human resources. Thus, examining the existing challenges in managing these human resources through taking correct measures can contribute to identifying the priorities and consequently influence the quality of servic...

Background: Preterm birth and subsequent admission of the infant to neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) can be distressing for parents and lead to their anxiety. The aim of this study was to evaluate maternal anxiety in mothers of infants admitted to the NICU and determine the characteristics associated with maternal anxiety.

Supportive care is an important strategy that can help cancer survivors manage changes and problems during their follow‐up care. Identifying patients' care needs is one of the primary steps of the nursing process to plan effective nursing interventions. The aim of this study was to explore adolescent cancer survivors' supportive care needs. Purpose...

Background Despite the importance of family and its relationship to positive transplant outcomes, little is known about family experiences following organ transplantation from the perspective of the transplant recipients. The literature is also devoid of information that describes the family experiences of Muslim transplant recipients. Aims The pu...

Aim: Professional communication between nurse and patient has a significant role in patient satisfaction with nursing care. The aim of this study was to assess nurse-patient communication and patient's satisfaction from nursing services in the burn wards of women and men. Design: Participants were all patients admitted to the Burn wards at the S...

Abstract Introduction: Conducting comparative studies is one of the research methods for revising and modernizing educational programs. The aim of this study was to compare the emergency nursing MSc curriculum in Iran and the USA. Methods: This descriptive-comparative study was conducted in 2018 at Tabriz University of Medical Sciences. Vanderbilt...

Background: Caring is one of the main concepts in nursing and its modes of delivery in different diseases have been widely studied. Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation (HSCT) is a novel, complex, and time-consuming clinical intervention which is applied as a final medical choice in several life-threatening diseases. The aim of the current study...

Introduction: Transition from childhood to adulthood is an important and challenging period for both adolescents and their parents, particularly in societies undergoing development and change. In Iran, cultural and social change is inextricably linked to, and strongly impacts on, family units. Aim: To explore the experiences of parents and the stra...

Background Cultural sensitivity is a core concept to establish awareness and knowledge about various ethnicities, cultures, genders and additional diversity characteristics to understand individual's requests and respond appropriately to them. A need for further development of the concept is warranted, especially in the context of paediatric nursin...

Background & Aims: The nursing master degree programs should prepare graduate nurses to integrate advanced theoretical, research-based, and clinical knowledge into clinical nursing practice. Since comparing the nursing master degree programs in different universities is of key importance in identifying their strengths and weaknesses and utilizing s...

Purpose/aims: The aim of this study was to explore specialized clinical nurses' (SCNs') perceptions of "good care" through descriptions of actual care experiences. Design: We used a qualitative design with a conventional content analysis approach. Methods: We conducted semistructured interviews with 24 SCNs. These nurses have passed specialize...

Aim: Hepatitis is a systemic infection that causes restrictions in the life of many patients due to its chronic nature and it necessitates the use of coping strategies to improve the quality of life. This study aims to demonstrate the experiences of hepatitis B carriers in coping with the disease. Methods: The present study was conducted by using a...

Objective The study aimed to explore Iranian cancer survivors’ experiences of returning to work. Methods Semi‐structured interviews were conducted with 20 cancer survivors at their workplace and in a referral cancer center. Data were analyzed using a conventional content analysis technique. Results Three main categories were identified as importa...

In Iran, as in other nations, adolescence can be a challenging period for both parents and their children. Typically, mothers assume the main role of parenting, which can have a negative impact either directly or indirectly on paternal involvement, or conversely, play a positive role of mediation between fathers and their adolescent children. In th...

Aim The aim was to explore nurses’ perceptions of career success. Introduction Career success is a concept which leads to improving professional behaviours. Research that focused on conceptualizing career success found it to be a complex, value‐driven construct likely to be perceived differently across work and cultural contexts. It is not yet cle...

Abstract Background & Aims: The Nursing Information System is part of the hospital information system and health care system, are designed to help nurses provide better patient care. The correct functioning of these systems will improve the integrity of clinical data, improve the quality of nursing care and meet the needs of users. The Nursing Info...