Open Journal of Nursing

Volume 3, Issue 8 (December 2013)

ISSN Print: 2162-5336   ISSN Online: 2162-5344

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The impact of culture on AIDS nurses in Iran

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DOI: 10.4236/ojn.2013.38A010    3,648 Downloads   5,055 Views  

ABSTRACT

AIDS is one of the medical professional’s or young person ventures in third world countries like Iran. The growth of AIDS victims in the recent years has made a lot of global worries about cure process and other related issues to HIV problems in these countries. One of the effective groups in the study of AIDS patients is nurses who are in direct contact with patients. Our investigation led to study two variables “consciousness” and “vision” of nurses working in Imam Khomeini hospital of Tehran University of Medical Sciences. Based on the results we achieved that nurses have a low medium degree in the variables studied which is as a result of poor and low effective trainings. In addition to this as a consequence of wrong culture in Iran about AIDS patients or even people in contact with them, nurses have been in a great pressure as they might be in danger of disease transmission. This negative trend has caused a great anxiety about the real condition of AID patients in Iran and their cure process.

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Fotovvat, H. and Zahedi Asl, M. (2013) The impact of culture on AIDS nurses in Iran. Open Journal of Nursing, 3, 67-73. doi: 10.4236/ojn.2013.38A010.

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