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Universities should play an important role in education commensurate with the expectations of stakeholders and of the community as well. The university professors and teachers have critical positions in education. This research aimed to explore the perspective of students in Tehran University of Medical Sciences [TUMS] about characteristics of a model teacher. Inductive qualitative content analysis was used to explore students' perspective based on naturalistic philosophy. The participants in this study were 19 students who were enrolled in various courses at TUMS. To collect data, semi-structured in-depth individual interviews were used. Findings were analyzed using conventional content analysis approach. The results of the study led to the identification of three main themes: teacher's science, moral imperatives in education, and communication with students. The first and third theme had a subtheme called science and oration and flexibility of classroom atmosphere. Regarding a considerable proportion of family caregivers of patients with heart failure were suspected cases of mental health disorders, routine assessment of mental health in this group of caregivers should be consider to identify those at risk, also clinical team should design and implement effective programs aimed at improving the mental health especially in caregiver who provide care for younger patients
ABSTRACT
Web-based technologies provide new opportunities for education, research and professional development of nursing. Nurses have few opportunities to use the Internet due to managers' obligations not to use the Internet in work hours, and their traditional attitudes to nursing practice. Establishment of a national nursing portal is a useful way to resolve some of these problems. The purpose of the present study was to investigate the experiences of development of nursing portals in some countries and provide helpful recommendations. This was a descriptive- comparative study. Using systematic review of the literature, the least features for nursing portal structures and contents were identified. Then, the identified features were assessed in selected countries through observation or communication with the portal board. Personalization, user's profile, search engine, platform-independent display, SSO capability, security mechanisms and collaborative capabilities, clinical guidelines, continuing education, electronic learning courses, and evidence-based nursing processes were common features in the nursing portals. Development of a specialized comprehensive portal that has all of the desirable features can be achieved through clear definitions of strategies on portal development, maintenance, and analysis of user's requirements. The main requirement to integrate services and contents provided by the portal include specific and integrated structure of all entities in nursing services systems