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Hormatollah Emamzadeh Ghasemi, Zohreh Vanaki, Robabeh Memarian,
Volume 4, Issue 2 (Autumn 2004)
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Introduction. One of the important duties of nursing managers is staff development for improving the quality of nursing care. If staff development is designed and implemented based on proper principles and nurses’ needs, it can lead to the improvement of nursing care. In this study, we have tried to present an applied model for nurses’ in-service education and determine its effect on the quality of nursing care. Methods. A quasi-experimental research with two groups, using pre and post-tests was performed. A sample of 60 patients were selected randomly and divided to two experiment and control groups. The quality of nursing care in surgery unit was assessed by a separate checklist. Educational model was designed based on the educational needs of nurses and presented to the experiment group by the nurses for three months. The control group received the routine in-service education. Then, the quality of nursing care was assessed one month after education in each group. The data was analyzed by SPSS software using independent and paired t-test. Results. The quality of patient care and patient education increased significantly after the intervention in the experiment group. Also, a significant difference was observed between the control and experiment groups in the quality of patient care and patient education. Conclusion. Considering the effectiveness of the designed model on the quality of nursing care and patient education, it is recommended to use this model as an effective educational model for in-service nursing education in order to achieve high quality nursing care.
Nasrin Jaffari Golestan, Zohreh Vanaki, Robabeh Memarian,
Volume 7, Issue 2 (3-2008)
Abstract

Introduction: One of the most significant problems in clinical environment is the unskilled and inexperienced nurses. This is while, most managers are not aware of nurses' proficiency and competency level. Therefore, applying the new strategy of "organizing nursing mentors committee" by managers as well as their orientation in this regard could be considered as a strategy to improve clinical competency. Methods: This quasi-experimental study as two group design was performed to assess the clinical competency level of five novice nurses and their performance on 72 patients hospitalized in medical-surgical wards in one of the hospitals in Tehran in 2005. They were divided into two experiment and control groups, and were evaluated before and after the intervention. Data was collected using observational checklists in communicative, cognitive, and psychomotor competency domains as double blinded. Number of patients in the experiment group was 32 and in the control group was 40 which were matched before and after the intervention in each group. The allocation of the novice nurses into groups and wards was done randomly. Data was analyzed by SPSS software. Results: Clinical competency of the novice nurses increased in all three domains in both groups. Paired t–test showed this increase in both groups. Moreover, independent t-test demonstrated that the mean difference in the experiment group was higher than the control group. Novice nurses' clinical competency was in a primary level in both groups before the intervention, but, after 3 months was promoted to the advanced level in the experiment group who were exposed to mentors committee. Conclusion: Organizing "nursing mentors committee" is an effective strategy for nursing managers, in order to help novice nurses who need to acquire clinical competency in different domains in a limited time frame.
Fatemeh Heshmati Nabavi, Robabeh Memarian, Zohreh Vanaki,
Volume 7, Issue 2 (3-2008)
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Introduction: Employing supervision methods which focuses on educational aspects may increase the effectiveness of nursing personnel's educational activities, especially patient education. The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of clinical supervision on the effectiveness of nurses' educational performance. Methods: This quasi-experimental study was conducted using static groups' comparison in which the control and experiment groups were compared by a post-test. Study samples included 72 patients who were matched and assigned into two distinct groups. Clinical supervision system was implemented through three steps in 3 wards of Samen-al-Aemme hospital in Mashhad for 6 months. The data gathering tool included patient information sheet, patient satisfaction from nurses' educational practice and rating scale of self-care knowledge and practice of patients. Data was gathered through interview and observation methods and analyzed by SPSS software. Results: The mean scores of self-care knowledge and practice of the patients were 30.6 and 57.1 out of 100, in the control and experiment groups, respectively. The mean score of patients' satisfaction from nurses' educational practice was 19.6 in the control group and 20.9 in the experiment group, out of 24. So that, independent t-test showed a significant difference between these two groups. Conclusion: Implementing clinical supervision system through observation, feedback, discussion, and investigation, may develop nurses' knowledge and professional skills in patient education. Therefore, this supervision method could be regarded as an effective model for in-service education. More studies are required in order to investigate the effect of this model on other aspects of nurses' practice.
Akram Sadat Sadathoseini, Robabeh Memarian,
Volume 9, Issue 3 (1-2010)
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Introduction: Palliative care in patients with incurable diseases requires creativity in providing services in the best possible way. Therefore, the effect of Synectic model on students' writing creativity and academic performance was investigated in this study. Methods: It was a quasi-experimental study performed on 2 groups of nursing students of Tehran University of Medical Sciences in the first semester of 2007-2008 academic year. The control group consisted of 28 and the experiment group included 32 students. After the written pre-test about the concept of children's pallia-tive care, the synectic model was employed for the experiment group and the usual method for the control group. Then, the post-test was held for both groups and they also wrote an essay on palliative care. Data was analyzed by SPSS software using descriptive statistics and inferential tests including Mann Whitney, chi², and Fisher exact test. Results: The mean for pre-test scores was 2.8 for the control group and 2.5 for the experiment group which showed no significant difference before the intervention. But after the intervention in post-test, the mean for the control group was 3.8, while it was 4.8 for the experiment group which showed a statistically significant difference. Moreover, investigating students' essay texts showed a significant difference between the two groups concerning creativity in writing. Conclusion: With regard to the results of this study, employing synectic method enhances academic perfor-mance and writing creativity of nursing students regarding children's palliative care.
Ali Dehghani, Sima Mohammadkhan Kermanshahi, Robabeh Memarian, Rasol Baharlou,
Volume 12, Issue 4 (7-2012)
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Introduction: Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is one of the most common chronic diseases of the central nervous system which causes mental disorders including anxiety in patients. Since the peer group can better communicate with their counterparts and encourage them to choose appropriate healthy behaviors, this study was designed to examine the impact of peer educational program on anxiety of multiple sclerosis patients. Methods: This was a quasi-experimental study conducted in year 2011 in MS Society of Iran (Tehran). A convenient sample of 110 patients with MS was divided randomly into two equal groups (experimental and control). After preparing peer teachers, they held six training sessions for experimental group during six weeks. DASS-21 questionnaire was used to measure anxiety which was completed by both groups before and 4 months after the test. Data was analyzed using chi2, paired t, and independent t tests. Results: The findings of independent t test did not show any significant difference between anxiety scores of experimental and control group before intervention while a statistically significant difference was observed after intervention between the scores of two groups (p=.032). Paired t test showed a statistically significant difference in anxiety level in experimental group after intervention (p=.002), whereas the same test showed no statistically significant difference in control groups (p =.659). Conclusion: Peer group educational program reduced anxiety in patients suffering from MS. Hence the conduction of this program is recommended as an effective, affordable, and effective teaching method which did not require any special equipment.

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