The Lived Experience of Iranian Caregivers of Comatose Patients

It was to examine the lived experience of caregivers of comatose patients. Van Manen's conception of hermeneutic phenomenology with convenience or purposeful sampling of nurses and family members of teaching hospitals was used in Tehran in 2011. The data were collected through interviews. The gathered data were analyzed using Van Manen's phenomenology. The participants were 5 males and 5 females and working in critical care units between 6 and 23 years. 19 essential subthemes were elicited, were classified into 2 themes: Holistic care and Caregiver's characteristics. Therefore, caring experience of comatose patient was scientifically defined: Caring for a Comatose Patient is a holistic care that depends on caregiver's Characteristics. The trustworthiness of sub themes and themes were achieved in our study. Conclusion: Our findings will enable nurses to know what patients have experienced in coma, to give greater insight to what is the issue of being faced by the caregiver, to enhance insight can lead to improved practice through more sensitive relationship with the patients and more focused assessment of their needs, to achieve and create an assessment tool based on the findings of our study; it seems that the results can be used in this regard. Shokati A M, Hasani P, Manoochehri H, Esmaili Vardanjani SA. The Lived Experience of Iranian Caregivers of Comatose Patients. Life Sci J 2012;9(3):1656-1662] (ISSN: 1097-8135). http://www.lifesciencesite.com. 24

Nursing errors and effect on health care: Perception of risk factors from view of nurse in Qazvin

Background and aims: In order to plan for preventing and decreasing the rate of nursing errors, understanding of nurse’s perception of nursing errors could be very helpful. This study was thus designed to examine the critical care nurses perception of nursing errors from view point of critical care nurses. Methods: This study was conducted in 9 hospitals in Qazvin province located in north of Iran. Using convenience sampling, all registered nurses who worked in critical care units were invited to participate in the study. Data were collected between January and March 2015 with using “predisposing factors of nursing errors questionnaire”. Results: Of 379 nurses participated in this study, 77.8 (N= 213) were women. The mean age of participants was 34±2.2 years and mean years of experience was 8.1±1.5 years. Totally, from view of nurses, most and lowest common cusecs of nursing errors were related to “management aspect” and “Team coordination” items respectively. Conclusion: Nursing educational systems should pay more attention to nurses’ perception to nursing errors and may consider their view during planning and education towards decreasing nursing errors in critical care setting