Critically Evaluation Widely Published Newspapers In Relation to Nursing in 1392

Heydari A¹ (PhD), Zardosht R²* (MSC)

¹ Medical-Surgical Nursing Department, School of Nursing and Midwifery,

Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran

² PhD candidate in Nursing, Postgraduate department, School of Nursing and Midwifery,

Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran

Original Article

Received: 26 Oct 2015, Accepted: 17 Feb 2016

Abstract

Introduction: Nurses are one of the main members of health care team to provide health services, globally. Newspapers have a unique role to reflect the nurses related issues, with regards to their important role.  This study was conducted to evaluate critically the nurses’ related published issued in widely published newspapers in 2014 in Iran.

Methods: The required information was retrieve from the web pages of the Iranian Nursing organization, and newspapers using the main keyword of “nursing”.  All published material was collected (Census method) for data analysis and, data was analyzed using content analysis (qualitative and quantitative). A total number of 250 articles from 14 newspapers were retrieved and analyzed.

Results: Quantitative analysis showed that 14 newspapers published relevant materials to nursing. Bazaar-e-kar newspaper and Keyhan newspaper, with 47 and one news, had the highest and lowest number of publications about nurses, respectively. Six main themes and several categories emerged from qualitative data analysis. The main themes include: nurses clinical issues, welfare and income of nurses, shortages of nurses, Iranian health monitoring project, violence against nurses and social credit.

Conclusion: The results showed that the content of published materials in newspapers in relation to nursing, focused mostly on their professional problems or demands. Nurses’ activities as a main member of health care team in community has been poor-reported, and their role in other settings and different levels of prevention have been ignored.

Key words: Nursing, Nursing and newspapers, Nursing roles

Please cite this article as follows:

Heydari A, Zardosht R. Critically evaluation widely published newspapers in relation to nursing in 1392. Hakim Health Sys Res 2016; 19(1): 4- 12.