Soodabeh-Soudabeh Soodi Joolaee-Jolaei

Fraser Health Authority Vancouver BC · Department of Evaluation & Research Services

Background: The do-not-resuscitate (DNR) order in end-stage patients constitutes a critical medical decision, directing healthcare providers to withhold cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) in the event of cardiopulmonary arrest upon the patient's request. Objectives: This study aims to analyze the attitudes of healthcare providers and the general p...

Results: This study included 23 female and 27 male participants, with a mean age of 35±6.3 years. Through data analysis, a total of 3201 codes were identified and subsequently organized into 5 main categories as follows: social stigma, media inconsistencies, fear and uncertainty, negligence, and breaking free from quarantine. These categories furth...

Objectives Research on medical assistance in dying (MAiD) decision-making indicates that family members and close friends are often involved in making decisions with patients and their care providers. This decision-making model comprising patients, family members, and palliative care providers (PCPs) has been described as a triad. The objective of...

Aim: To describe how women perceived relational autonomy for decision-making during childbirth pain and illuminate influencing factors. Background: Most women report challenging pain during birth. Circumstances can affect their ability to engage in pain management decisions. Design: We used an interpretative description approach to conduct thi...

Background Medical care that has therapeutic effects without significant benefits for the patient is called futile care. Intensive Care Units are the most important units in which nurses provide futile care. This study aimed to explain the causes of futile care from the perspective of nurses working in Intensive Care Units are. Method The study wa...

Background: More than a dozen countries have now legalized some form of assisted dying, and additional jurisdictions are considering similar legislations or expanding eligibility criteria. Despite the persistent controversies about the relationship between medicine, palliative care, and assisted dying, many people are interested in assisted dying....

Background After over 4 years since medical assistance in dying legalization in Canada, there is still much uncertainty about how this ruling has affected Canadian society. Objective To describe the positive aspects of medical assistance in dying legalization from the perspectives of hospice palliative care providers engaging in medical assistance...

Evidence of health disparity and systemic barriers for Indigenous people as compared to non-Indigenous people in Canada is well documented. Nonetheless, the intersection of Indigenous patients’, family members’, and health service providers’ experiences of (dis)trust, cultural safety, and health care decision-making is not well understood. This...

INTRODUCTION: Providing information based on truth is very important in patients' treatment-related decisions and reduces emotional and physical sufferings as well as patient costs. The aim of this study was to design a model that is based on the culture and health-care context of Iran in order to establish a truth-based communication and provide a...

Introduction Good quality of care is dependent on nurses’ strong clinical skills and moral competencies, as well. While most nurses work with high moral standards, the moral performance of some nurses in some organizations shows a deterioration in their moral sensitivity and actions. The study reported in this paper aimed to explore the experiences...

Background: Keeping the patients well and fully informed about diagnosis, prognosis, and treatments is one of the patient's rights in any healthcare system. Although all healthcare providers have the same viewpoint about rendering the truth in treatment process, sometimes the truth is not told to the patients; that is why the healthcare staff tell...

Background The pain associated with childbirth is a cause of severe pain, and the literature suggests that it can be influenced by psychosocial influences, the environment, and cognitive processes, creating the overall experience of childbirth. Therefore, the investigation of women's childbirth pain experience is essential. Aim The purpose of this...

The birth of preterm multiple new-borns, especially triplets or more, creates numerous psychological and clinical challenges for parents during the neonatal and infancy period. This study investigated parents’ experiences of parenting preterm multiple-birth new-borns. A qualitative study was undertaken using an interpretive phenomenology study meth...

Nurses are the first role models for students in clinical settings. They can have a significant role on students' motivation. The purpose of this study was to explore the understanding of nursing students and instructors concerning the role of nurses in motivating nursing students through clinical education. The sampling was first started purposefu...

Background: Concerns regarding personal, professional, administrative, and institutional implications of medical assistance in dying (MAiD) are of particular interest to palliative and hospice care providers (PHCPs), who may encounter additional moral distress and professional challenges in providing end-of-life (EOL) care in the new legislative an...

Introduction Good quality of care is dependent on nurses’ strong clinical skills and strong moral competencies, as well. However, the moral performance of some nurses in some organizations shows a deterioration in their moral sensitivity and actions. The aim of the study reported on in this paper was to explore the experiences of nurses regarding n...

Introduction Good quality of care is dependent on nurses’ strong clinical skills and strong moral competencies, as well. However, the moral performance of some nurses in some organizations shows a deterioration in their moral sensitivity and actions. The aim of the study reported on in this paper was to explore the experiences of nurses regarding n...

Introduction: Good quality of care is dependent on nurses’ strong clinical skills and moral competencies, as well. While most nurses work with high moral standards, the moral performance of some nurses in some organizations shows a deterioration in their moral sensitivity and actions. The study reported in this paper aimed to explore the experience...

Introduction: Good quality of care is dependent on nurses’ strong clinical skills and moral competencies, as well. While most nurses work with high moral standards, the moral performance of some nurses in some organizations shows a deterioration in their moral sensitivity and actions. The study reported in this paper aimed to explore the experience...

Introduction: Good quality of care is dependent on nurses’ strong clinical skills and strong moral competencies, as well. However, the moral performance of some nurses in some organizations shows a deterioration in their moral sensitivity and actions. The aim of the study reported on in this paper was to explore the experiences of nurses regarding...

Background: Receiving accurate and complete information about diagnosis, prognosis, and treatments is among patients’ rights in healthcare systems. Although all healthcare providers have the same viewpoint about truth-telling in the process of treatment, sometimes truths are not told to patients or they are told a “white lie”. The aim of the study...

Background: Keep the patients well and fully informed about diagnosis, prognosis, and treatments is one of the patient’s rights in any healthcare system. Although all healthcare providers have the same viewpoint about rendering the truth in treatment process, sometimes the truth is not told to the patients and instead, healthcare staff use “white l...

Background: Keeping the patients well and fully informed about diagnosis, prognosis, and treatments is one of the patient’s rights in any healthcare system. Although all healthcare providers have the same viewpoint about rendering the truth in treatment process, sometimes the truth is not told to the patients; that is why the healthcare staff tell...

Background Physical restraint is widely used in intensive care units to ensure patient safety, manage agitated patients, and prevent the removal of medical equipment connected to them. However, physical restraint use is a major healthcare challenge worldwide. Aim This study aimed to explore nurses' experiences of the challenges of physical restrai...

Background Physical restraint is among the commonly used methods for ensuring patient safety in intensive care units. However, nurses usually experience ethical dilemmas over using physical restraint because they need to weigh patient autonomy against patient safety. Aim The aim of this study was to explore factors behind ethical dilemmas for crit...

Nowadays, the issue of Authorship has increasingly expanded in the academic world and has resulted in a lot of problems for scholars and the editorial board of scientific Journals. Given the increasing number of postgraduate students and subsequent research activities, every day we witness the formal and informal arguments on the ambiguity and unfa...

Background and Objectives: Delay in patient care is the most common error that threatens patient safety and increases mortality, and hospital costs. This study investigated the relationship between delay in patient care and nurses professional commitment. Materials and Methods: This is a descriptive correlational study. Through a stratified sampli...

Context: There is considerable empirical evidence about the psychosocial vulnerability of children of parents with mental illness (COPMI). Nonetheless, these children's experiences and needs have still known poorly. Aims: This study was conducted to explore the mental health needs of COPMI. Settings and Design: The grounded theory approach was depl...

Background: Developing moral competency is a main aim of educational systems, especially in healthcare-related disciplines. Purpose: The aim of this study was to explore the moral development process in nursing students. Methods: This study used a constructivist grounded theory. Twenty-five semistructured, face-to-face interview with 22 partic...

Background: Patients' rights arise from their expectations of the healthcare system, which are rooted in their needs. Visitation is seen as a necessary need for patients and families in intensive care units. Objectives: The authors attempted to design, implement, and evaluate a new visiting policy in the intensive care units. Research design:...

Background: Families play a vital role in the recovery of patients admitted to intensive care units. They can help patients to adapt themselves to the crisis and feel more satisfied. Objective: In this study, we examined the patients' and families' satisfaction with the current visiting policies in cardiac intensive care units in the largest Car...

Introduction: Because of their ongoing contact with patients, nurses have an important role in maintaining and improving standards of patient safety, in which nurses’ workplace condition may have impact on the incidence of nosocomial infections and may endanger patient safety. Aim: the aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between n...

Background & Aims: Drug prescribing by nurses is a historic movement for the nursing profession and an essential part of the solution that the leading countries health care system applied in order to improve access and reduce patients waiting time to receive medication. Despite the increasing attention of the world to discuss nurse prescribing, the...

Hospital ethics committees (HECs) help clinicians deal with the ethical challenges which have been raised during clinical practice. A comprehensive literature review was conducted to provide a historical background of the development of HECs internationally and describe their functions and practical challenges of their day to day work. This is the...

Background & Aims: Falling is one of the most common events that threats physical and psychological safety in patients, as well a factor that increases duration of hospitalization and treatment costs. The aim of the study was to investigate patient fallings kinds, characteristics and related factors to reduce risk factors in patients admitted to ho...

BACKGROUND: Patient safety is one of the key components of nursing care for cancer cases. Valid and reliable context-based instruments are necessary for accurate evaluation of patient safety in oncology units. The aim of the present study was to develop and evaluate the psychometric properties of the Patient Safety Violation Scale in medical oncolo...

Open visiting policy in intensive care units is proposed as an essential requirement for patients and their families, so this study is aimed to explain open visiting policy obstacles and facilitators from patients, families and health team members’ viewpoint. This qualitative study implemented in intensive care units of a hospital specialized in ca...

Background: In most countries, one of the main reasons for developing more advanced roles for nurses is to improve access to care in the context of limited number of doctors. It is considered that the introduction of major policy initiatives, such as nurse prescribing, requires high-level discussion and policy development to ensure successful impl...

Visiting patients is a positive and effective strategy to help patients and their families to adapt better with stress and crisis of Intensive Care Units. This study designed with the aim of "exploring the perception of patients, families and staff of Intensive Care Units about visiting hour's policies ". In this qualitative study, the perspective...

Background & Aim: Patient falling is one of the most important indicator of patient safety. Nurses have an important role in the prevention of patient falls and the improvement of patient safety standards. The current study aimed to determine the relationship between the incidence of patient falls and nurses’ professional commitment. Methods & Mat...

Background: It is the responsibility of each occupational therapist to always act ethically and professionally in a clinical setting. However, there is little information available concerning the factors influencing ethical behavior of occupational therapists at work. Since no study has been conducted in Iran on this topic, this qualitative study...

Background: Although support is one of the most substantial needs of nursing students during clinical education, it is not clearly defined in the literature. Objectives: The current study aimed to explore the concept of support in clinical settings as perceived by nursing students. Materials and methods: A qualitative content analysis was used...

Background: Nursing students, during their study, experience significant changes on their journey to become nurses. A major change that they experience is the development of their moral competency. Objective: The purpose of this study is to explore the process of moral development in Iranian nursing students. Research design: A constructivist...

Admission to intensive care units is potentially stressful and usually goes together with disruption in physiological and emotional function of the patient. The role of the families in improving ill patients’ conditions is important. So this study investigates the strategies, potential challenges and also the different dimensions of visiting hours’...

In order to improve service quality, there are various committees in hospitals including ethics committees, which may be among the most important and necessary establishments within the health care system. Hospital ethics committees are designed to ensure proper clinical decision-making and are responsible for monitoring the ethical provision of se...

In order to improve service quality, there are various committees in hospitals including ethics committees, which may be among the most important and necessary establishments within the health care system. Hospital ethics committees are designed to ensure proper clinical decision-making and are responsible for monitoring the ethical provision of se...

Introduction: Nurses are the major group among health care professionals, and so, they must be had accountability in their nursing care delivery. Because, their errors' had effects on patients that it usually they are irreversible. So, legislators for preventing these errors in medical and nursing staff define many penalties, considerably. Aim: the...

Background: Population aging has social, economic and political consequences. Most family caregivers prefer to care for their family member older person with chronic disease at home. Despite traditional culture within Iranian families, in some cases, hospitalization of the elderly in nursing home is inevitable, and this affects the old person an...

Population aging has social, economic and political consequences. Most family caregivers prefer to care for their family member older person with chronic disease at home. Despite traditional culture within Iranian families, in some cases, hospitalization of the elderly in nursing home is inevitable, and this affects the old person and his/her famil...

Background: In the families of patients with mental disorder, children are in a critical situation since they are faced with several problems that may not be efficiently noticed. Objectives: The purpose of this study was to explore the challenges concerning the marriage of children of parent with mental illness in Iran. Patients and Methods: This s...

Background: In the families of patients with mental disorder, children are in a critical situation since they are faced with several problems that may not be efficiently noticed. Objectives: The purpose of this study was to explore the challenges concerning the marriage of children of parent with mental illness in Iran. Patients and Methods: This s...

Ethics are related to the structure and culture of the society. In addition to specialized ethics for every profession, individuals also hold their own personal beliefs and values. This study aimed to investigate Iranian occupational therapists’ perception of ethical practice when working with children. For this purpose, qualitative content analysi...

Informed consent goes beyond signing a form; it is a process of providing necessary information, helping patients make an informed decision, and actively participate in their treatment. This study aimed to assess the quality of obtaining surgical informed consent in hospitals affiliated with Tehran University of Medical Sciences. In a cross-section...

Introduction: The behavior of healthcare providers in a healthcare system constitutes a factor for patients’ satisfaction with the system. Nurses’ job satisfaction is an important part of their lives which influences patients’ security, as well as the quality and efficiency of healthcare services. Nurses’ dissatisfaction with their vocation, for an...

Perception of professional ethics by Iranian occupational therapist working with children Ethics are related to the structure and culture of the society. In addition to specialized ethics for every profession, individuals also hold their own personal beliefs and values. This study aimed to investigate Iranian occupational therapists’ perception of...

The Positive Effects of Parents’ Mental Illness on Their Children: A Qualitative Study Reza Zeighami, Fatemeh Oskouie, Soodabeh Joolaee Abstract Objective: The main objective of this research is to explore the positive consequences of parents’ mental illness on their children. Material & methods: This study was a part of a more comprehensive stu...

Drug misuse is increasing and diversifying in Iran. This study is the first to explore in detail the impact on, and ways of coping used by, spouses of addicted men in Iran. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 24 spouses. Four main themes were identified in the data: heart-breaking news of the husband’s addiction; coping alone; progressiv...

Prescribing represents a new aspect of practice for nurses. To make qualitative results more accessible to clinicians, researchers, and policy makers, individuals are urged to synthesize findings from related studies. Therefore this study aimed to aggregate and interpret existing literature review and systematic studies to obtain new insights on nu...

Medication errors are the most common errors that threaten patient safety ,increase patients mortality, and hospital costs. This study investigated the relationship between the incidences of medication errors and nurse’s professional commitment. This is a cross-sectional, descriptive-analytic study. Through a stratified sampling method, 300 nur...

Abstract Introduction: Cancer patients need a comprehensive nursing care. Knowing nurse caring behaviors as perceived by patients helps to facilitate quality nursing care based on priorities identified by patients. Purpose of this study is identifying nurses caring behaviors as was perceived by cancer patients. Method: This is a cross- sectional...

Addiction is one of the majore problems that affect everyone in the society especially the spouses of addicted men who have to face a large number of problems which are the consequences of their husband’s addiction. This qualitative study was conducted to explore the needs and expectations of women who are living with their addicted husband in Iran...

Background and Objectives: Paying attention to intensive needs of the patients and their families is one the essential principles of the responsiveness of the doctors and nurses of the intensive care unit (ICU). Based on a review of related texts and a quick look regarding the visiting hour’s strategies, this study investigates the strategies,...

AimThe purpose of this study was to evaluate nurses' reporting of medication errors. Background Improvement in medication error reporting is one of the major challenges in today's health care environments. Methods This was a descriptive survey of nurses working in medical, surgery, orthopaedic, gynaecology and obstetric wards in hospitals affiliate...

Background: It has been found that support given to women with breast cancer has a positive effect upon their reactions to the illness and may even prolong their survival. Perceived support needs assessment in breast cancer women could be considered as a necessary part of nursing function. Aim: The purpose of this study was to translate and cult...

Background and Objectives: Paying attention to intensive needs of the patients and their families is one the essential principles of the responsiveness of the doctors and nurses of the intensive care unit (ICU). Based on a review of related texts and a quick look regarding the visiting hour’s strategies, this study investigates the strategies, thei...

Abstract: There has been growing public concern regarding the ethical conduct of healthcare professionals. In patient care, compare to other healthcare professionals, nurses encounter ethical problems more frequently, perhaps due to their more frequent contact with patients. By explaining the situation of nursing ethics in Iran, the paper presents...

Background and Purpose: Absence from work, quitting job and turnover of nursing staff put a great burden on any health care system in terms of hiring, training and maintaining nurses. Studies suggest that those with higher job satisfaction are less likely to state being sick and indicate that there is a relationship between the nurses' job satisfac...

Background: This study aimed to provide an understanding of the relationship between the ethical climate at the workplace and job satisfaction among nurses. Methods: 210 nurses working in selected wards in the Tehran University of Medical Sciences were asked to fill out questionnaires on their work environment and level of job satisfaction. The...

Introduction: Informed consent constitutes one of the most important legal, professional, and ethical principles of a surgical operation. Consent obtained from a patient is only valid when the patient has received enough information regarding the proposed treatment option. This study aims to determine how much the patients are informed before unde...

Background: This study aimed to provide an understanding of the relationship between the ethical climate at the workplace and job satisfaction among nurses.

Menopausal symptoms experienced by women vary widely, and while many women transition through menopause with manageable symptoms, others experience severe symptoms, which may impair their quality of life. A randomized clinical trial was conducted to determine the effect of aromatherapy massage on psychological symptoms during menopause. The study p...

Aim. The aim of this study is to review the visiting policies, strategies and potential challenges .and their different dimensions in ICUs in different societies Background. Considering the special needs of patients and their families is one of the essential .(elements of care in the intensive care units )ICU Method. This is a comprehensive review...

This study explored how nursing students can be kept motivated throughout their clinical education. Motivation is a key issue in nursing clinical education for student retention. The study was conducted using grounded theory methods, which are appropriate when studying process in a social context. Sixteen students and four instructors, who were pur...

Abstract Background and Purpose: Absence from work, quitting job and turnover of nursing staff put a great burden on any health care system in terms of hiring, training and maintaining nurses. Studies suggest that those with higher job satisfaction are less likely to state being sick and indicate that there is a relationship between the nurses’ j...

Aim. The aim of this study is to review the visiting policies, strategies and potential challenges and their different dimensions in ICUs in different societies. Background. Considering the special needs of patients and their families is one of the essential elements of care in the intensive care units (ICU). Method. This is a comprehensive review...

Background: Breast cancer is the most common form of cancer among women. Women with breast cancer encounter many psychosocial stresses as well as physical problems. Aim: To capture the meaning of living with breast cancer from the unique perspective and through the lived experiences of Iranian women with breast cancer that were explained with their...