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The Evaluation of the Patients’ Health Status by the Nurses Working in Tehran
Shiva Pejmankhah, Sheida Pejmankhah, Dr Hamid Alavi Majd,
Volume 10, Issue 1 (4-2013)
Abstract

Background and Objective: Nurses should be so determined and competent that, in the dynamic and changing conditions of the patients, they could use their technical skills and professional knowledge to make a rigorous clinical judgment about the patient's health status. Accordingly, a study was conducted to assess the health status of patients and nurses in the hospitals affiliated  with  the social security organization in Tehran, Iran.

Material and Methods: This descriptive – analytical study was conducted  on 96 nurses working in ­medical-surgical and emergency wards of the hospitals affiliated with Social Security Organization in Tehran. The instrument was a questionnaire including two parts of demographic data and 11 questions for assessing nurses' performance. To analyze the data, we useddescriptive and inferential statistics.

Results: The mean age is 7.15 ± 32.8 and  75% of the patients are females. Their (53.1%) work of experience is between 73-96 months and their (52.1%) performance is observed poor. There is significant correlation between nurses' performance and variables such as gender, age, marital status, work experience and ward of hospital.

Conclusion: Because of low performance of the nurses, it is important for nurses to assess the  health status of patients , the same as physicians using screening forms on the file of patients.


Consequences of Moral Distress in faculty member in the field of nursing: a qualitative Study
Shiva Pejmankhah, Sheyda Pezhmankhah ,
Volume 19, Issue 1 (1-2022)
Abstract

Abstract
Background: While institutional constraints make the teacher has not able to implement his moral decision, leading to a conflict between the right moral decision and his professional conduct, alternatively he will suffer from a negative feeling and psychological imbalance that emphasized moral distress. Moral distress occurs not only in clinical settings but also in academic area. The purpose of this study was to explain the experience of faculty member in the field of nursing in regards to the consequences of moral distress impact on their activities in the work environment.
Methods: This qualitative study was applied during a period of 11 months in in Nursing and Midwifery schools in Tehran, Iran in 2017. 13 faculty member in the field of nursing were selected through purposive sampling method. Data was gathered using in-depth semi-structured interviews with main question in term of the consequences of moral distress in working environment. Conventional qualitative content analysis was used for analyzing the data.
Results: The analysis of the data in this study led to emerge four main categories and eight subcategories based on the experience of faculty member in the field of nursing about the consequences of moral distress. The main categories included; the ineffective training, organizational silence, decreased sense of professional development and job burnout and the subcategories included decreased teaching quality, ineffective communication in the educational space, silent protest, damage to team performance, threat to professional identity, stagnation of professional growth, psychological reactions, and physical reactions.
Conclusion: The consequences of moral distress in faculty member in the field of nursing lead to make some barriers to desirable educational activities, such as a lack of a sense of accomplishment, a tendency toward negative moods in the workplace which causes damage of their performance or others professonal problems for provide learning. Therefore use of specific management and organizational strategies to control the consequences of moral distress in faculty member have been recommended.
 
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