Introduction: Incivility is a widespread problem in today's health care. Indecisiveness and violent behavior are complicated problems in the nursing profession, which causes significant problems for nurses, patients and health organizations. The aim of this study was to explore the LIVED EXPERIENCES of incivility among a group of Nurses. Methods: This study was conducted based on the qualitative approach, using an interpretive phenomenological method. Using purposeful sampling method, 14 participants were selected and shared their EXPERIENCES regarding incivility at the workplace through individual, in-depth and semi-structured interviews. The transcribed interviews were analyzed based on the Colaizzi approach. Results: The LIVED EXPERIENCES of nurses regarding incivility in workplace emerged as “ Indurance in the way of destruction and humiliation” as the main theme. The extracted themes were “ Obvious and latent difficulties of being a nurse” including four subthemes (insulting encounter of the patient and accompanies; non-professional interactions; organizational and professional challenges; social challenges regarding profession). The second theme was extracted as “ multi-dimentional breakdown” including three subthemes (psychosocial and personal instability; negative physical responses, forthcoming professional threats and damages). Conclusions: Incivility behaviors among nurses can affect the quality of services provided by them. Therefore, considering factors that lead to incivility in nursing workplace is necessary.

Introduction: Permanent cardiac pacemaker implantation, and introducing a foreign body into the heart, a part of the human anatomy that symbolically represents emotions, may be considered a major life event. Therefore, it is recommended that the healthcare team gain understanding of the experience of pacemaker patients and present information based on patients’ EXPERIENCES in order to actively involve the patients in the administration and management of their illness process. The aim of this qualitative study is to explore the patients' EXPERIENCES of living with a permanent cardiac pacemaker.Method: In this study, descriptive phenomenological method and the Colaizzi's proposed stages were used. Purposeful sampling of patients with single and dual chamber cardiac pacemakers was performed. Overall, 13 interview sessions were held with 10 participants. The minimum duration of an interview was 35 minutes and the maximum 54 minutes. The data were collected through semi-structured interviews.Results: The emerging themes according to the qualitative data are embedded in the Iranian socio-cultural context. They consist of five themes: living with pacemaker, pacemaker identity, balance in control, consequences and relief.Conclusion: The findings of this study, as a small image of the large and complex world, can be used in order to design and implement effective care for pacemaker patients. Having a clearer understanding of these patients’ EXPERIENCES will help healthcare workers to design supportive and caring programs that will meet these patients’ needs more holistically.

Introduction: Approximately 15% of all couples in the reproductive ages are infertile. The ability to reproduce and give birth to a child is an inherent part of life for most human beings and it is important from social and psychological aspects. So, one of the goals of marriage is fertility and reproduction. Thus the diagnosis of infertility causes severe anxiety in the individual. The purpose of this study was to explore women’s experience of female infertility.Method: Descriptive phenomenological method was used to determine these EXPERIENCES. The data was collected by deep interviewing of 14 interfile women. Data analysis was done according to Colaizzi’s steps.Results: We obtained four general concepts: 1- Personal anxiety. 2- Challenge with interpersonal communications. 3- Effects of beliefs and religion. 4- Problems associated with treatment process. Conclusion: It seems that all aspects of infertile women’s lives are affected by infertility. Thus, designing and accomplishment of consultive and supportive programs play very important roles for giving better cares to infertile women

The aim of study was to explore teachers’LIVED EXPERIENCES about implementing work and technology curriculum. Phenomenology research was used. Fifteen participants were selected through purposeful sampling. They were teachers of the seventh and eighth grades of lower secondary schools in Karaj. Data colledted through semi structured interviews and tape recordings. The results showOfficials’ignorance of the teacher’s practical knowledge, lack of the appropriate strategy for evaluation, a limited time frame and inadequate equipment that make teachers less motivated and for some of them a withdrawal from training programs.Improving teachers' attitudes towards new curriculum will be possible, considering professional and continual training service, providing an appropriate teaching context, exchange of EXPERIENCES among teachers and ongoing teachers relationship with officials.Research findings indicate that administrators and parent’s knowledge in the new curriculum need for revision and culture promotion through increased knowledge and using the curriculum in student’s life activities.

Background: Today, liver transplantation is a routine procedure in the treatment of patients with end stage liver disease and its survival rate is high. In order to promote health, nurses and other health care professionals need to discover the meanings of LIVED EXPERIENCES after liver transplantation. It is important for nurses to know what patients really experience; appropriate nursing intervention can be extracted from such understanding. This study aimed to describe the meaning of LIVED EXPERIENCES of liver transplant patients after discharging from hospital.Methods: A Phenomenological approach was chosen for the study. Unstructured and open–ended interviews were conducted with 9 liver transplant patients. The method of analysis described by Colaizzi (1978) was utilized.Results: According to Colaizzi, seven categories emerged: support, gradual adaptation, transplant outcomes, concerns, fallow up, gratitude and waiting for transplant. The patient’s physical and mental problems prevented them to fulfill personal goals before transplant. Although they had some concerns such as fear of graft rejection, they were at the peace with the world after transplantation. Lifelong medications were identified insignificant for the participants. Social support was essential for recovery and meeting other recipients in the same situation as well as sharing health and life EXPERIENCES is an important aspect among liver transplant patients. Health professionals were universally praised in the study however the fallow up care they received from them was not desirable.Conclusion: Health professional especially nurses should take a more active role in continuing care for such clients. Also, the support patients give each other should be encouraged and aided by health care team.

Introduction: Forgiveness to others as a moral virtue is emphasized by Islam. In strengthening the preservation of human dignity and altruism and empathy emphasized in nursing ethics codes for nurses، forgiveness has a special place. The aim of this study was to investigate nurses' LIVED EXPERIENCES of forgiveness to others in workplace. Method: This study was conducted based on the qualitative approach and interpretive phenomenological method، which aimed to explore the outcomes of forgiveness based on nurses’ LIVED EXPERIENCES. Participants in this study were 25 nurses working in hospitals of Tabriz City، Iran، who were selected via purposive sampling. Data were collected via in-depth and semi-structured interviews. The transcribed interviews were analyzed based on the hermeneutic approach using the analysis method proposed by Diekelmann، Allen، and Tanner. The mentioned interviews continued until no new meanings emerged and until the researchers were satisfied with the depth of their understanding. The extracted meanings were mental solace، spirituality and career. Results: The nurses in LIVED EXPERIENCES of forgiveness to others had achieved mental، spiritual and professional career consequences. Conclusion: Forgiveness as an important moral act and as one of the factors in nursing ethics codes can play a major role in giving a sense of calm، nearness to god، and positive engagement in the work environment.

Background: Caring is a valuable task. The staff in any profession that involves patients’ fear, anxiety, pain, and suffering may experience similar feelings. As a professional group, oncology nurses deal with patients and their relatives and caregivers under very stressful conditions. They encounter pain, suffering, and death as a part of their daily life. A number of studies have evaluated the EXPERIENCES of pediatric oncology nurses in other countries. Therefore, conducting a survey about the EXPERIENCES of Iranian nurses of caring for children with cancer can reveal their demands, stress, and limitations.Materials and Methods: In a qualitative research, in-depth, unstructured individual interviews with open-ended questions were conducted to evaluate the EXPERIENCES of pediatric oncology nurses in a hospital in a metropolitan city of Iran. The subjects all consented to participate and had at least one year of working experience in the ward. Content analysis was performed to analyze the data.Results: The LIVED EXPERIENCES of pediatric oncology nurses were categorized in five main themes. These themes included attachment, supportive care, trying to repress feelings, feeling of helplessness, and the need to be supported.Conclusions: According to these results, nurses who provide care for children with cancer require support. This research also highlighted the roles, limitations, and needs of nurses in pediatric oncology wards.

Background and Objectives: In Iran, marriage is considered as one of the social and cultural issues of contemporary time, because problems, bottlenecks, and barriers in the way of young people, especially student population, have increased over the recent years. Therefore, understanding the experience of student marriage is required to provide appropriate information for discovering and investigating relevant and acceptable interventions. The present study aimed to explain the LIVED EXPERIENCES of student marriage. Methods: In this qualitative study with hermeneutic phenomenological approach, 12 students of Qom University of Medical Sciences, were selected for participation in the study using purposive sampling. Data were collected through deep semi-structured interviews, and then were analyzed by Diekelmann method (1989). Results: After analysis of the data, the main theme appeared with 3 sub-themes. The main themes was “ self-flourishing in the face of challenges", which consisted of sub-themes of evolution, stability, support, and challenges ahead. Conclusion: According to the results of this study, marriage affects all aspects of student life and changes their lives. Student marriage is associated with challenges that prepare the ground for evolution. Marriage leads to self-flourishing in the students, which makes their lives meaningful and prepares the ground for progress in the path of life.