Nursing and Midwifery Care Research Center
Main Activities

The research center of “nursing and midwifery cares” of Mashhad University of Medical Sciences by the cooperation of the favors of omnipotence and cooperation of the caregiver groups in health field aims to promote clinical and scientific knowledge and empowerment of university and non-university society in the field of research related to nursing and midwifery cares in addition to extend and guide dynamic, progressive, and novel basic research regarding the original quantitative and qualitative studies, review and combining methods related to various aspects of training and treatment-health cares, and provides the background for providing the best nursing-midwifery care services by producing science and combining it with the recent scientific achievements and clinical care experiences.

Other Activities

In order to develop research and provide solutions for treatment health issues, and according to the Nursing and Midwifery Care Research Center Statute, which is entitled “Research Center” in this statute, the agreement was reached in principle for achieving the following objectives.

Objectives

Development and application of humankind knowledge in regard with “Nursing and Midwifery cares”
Performing epidemiologic and clinical basic research in order to correct the country therapeutic health providing services system in order to responding the demands of the Islamic community
Gathering, making up, and classification of relevant documents, articles, and evidences, and publishing them
Training researcher human resources in regard with :Nursing and Midwifery cares”
Motivating, encouraging and application of the researchers
Attempt in attracting and cooperating related research and executing centers in the country
Scientific cooperation with training and research centers at other countries and international organizations through adhering rules and laws of the government of Islamic Republic of Iran

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Educational Activities
Research/Scientific Achievenments
Research committees
The comprehensive nursing care committee

Comprehensive nursing care committee includes various plans of evidence-based research in the specialized care field in 5 nursing-specialized working groups.
In this committee, various members of the nursing team in various fields and specialties in various specialized sub-groups of nursing care were put together.
Committee of emergencies and intensive care
Medical Emergency Services and emergency/ intensive care wards were established as the centers to provide care for emergency and critical cases. These wards are the most parts of Medical Emergency Services and hospitals.
Patients, who refer to these units, are in acute physical status and need to be treated with high-quality therapeutic care as soon as possible.
These units are the recipient of critical patients from the other therapeutic centers, and besides are responsible for stabilizing the vital signs for the entrance to the hospital and intensive wards and operating room.
Since emergency wards and intensive care units admit a large number of patients daily, which they expect to provide timely and high-quality services.
Therefore, providing effective and well-timed services is possible under the efficient and effective performance of these units.
Midwifery cares committee in pregnancy and labor

The health of mothers and decline in mortality of mothers were among the important indices for the development of the countries.
Human basic rights including rights of health and life make the governments committed to perform all the attempts required to prevent preventable mortality in mothers and neonates.
Comprehensive midwifery cares, which is required to provide safety and health of mothers in pre-conception and post-conception, prenatal and postnatal periods
The program of mothers’ health with the aim of preserving and promoting mothers’ health and secure maternal in the format of decline in mortality and morbidity are also among the most important programs of health system in Iran.
Secure motherhood includes a set of novelties, protocols, and guidelines of providing services which are for the assurance of the receiving high quality services, family planning, pre and post conception cares, pre and post natal cares by mothers to achieve optimum health of mother, fetus and neonate during conception, labor, and post-labor.
Secure motherhood reduces mortality of mothers and neonates. Most of the mothers’ deaths occur in 24-48 hours after labor. Secure labor with emphasizing on propagation of secure and physiologic labor, decline in unnecessary cesareans and pleasuring vaginal labor is an effective step to improve mothers’ and neonates’ health.
Nowadays, high prevalence of cesarean section, fear of vaginal labor and fear of labor pain, as well as bleeding, high blood pressure and post-labor infection as the most common reasons of mother death need to perform evidence-based interventions resulted from research in regard with promoting health of mother and neonate.
Committee of fertility and sexual health

Reproductive health is known as the fundamental part of human’s health. Reproductive health is thorough physical, social, and mental wellbeing and is not only the lack of or inability to be fertile. Sexual health with a holistic approach considers reproductive performance and its systems at all the life’s stages.
According to the description by WHO, reproductive health enables women and men to achieve responsibility regarding sexual life away from any obligation to secure and satisfying sexual life.
Reproductive health points to precise and wide programming which provides reproductive preparations; therefore, reproductive heath care programs based on presenting information and training through consultation and providing high quality services for all ages and all life stages are designed.
The results of the research showed that programs of reproductive and sexual health promotion with performing several approaches including presenting comprehensive and avoiding sexual trainings through concentrating on youth and promoting communicative programs of youth with the parents showed the best results in reducing high-risk behaviors and prevalence of venereal diseases and unintended pregnancies.
Research Priorities

 

1-Evidence-based care in nursing and midwifery

A- Conducting quantitative, qualitative and mixed method research for applying triage in nursing and midwifery departments

B- Applied research in reproductive and sexual health care promotion in vulnerable groups such as cancer patients, immigrants, drug addicts and special diseases

C- Modern nursing care in intensive care units

D- Applying nursing theories in patient care

E- Geriatric care

f- Mental health in nursing and midwifery care

2-The impact of digital technology in nursing and midwifery care

3-Promoting healthy childbearing

A- Counseling to childbearing for couples

B- Improving the quality of midwifery care in pregnancy, delivery and the postpartum period

C- Enhancing normal delivery and drug and non-drug methods to induced pain, fear and anxiety of delivery

4-Education and care consultations in nursing and midwifery

A- Counseling and self-care training for high-risk women, before, during pregnancy and after delivery

B- Teaching self-care to people with high-risk behaviors and in the field of STD addicts

C- Self-care training in patients with chronic disorders such as hypertension, diabetes, and etc

D- Education and care consultations in modern treatments of infertility and its ethical and legal issues

E- Education and consultation for sexual health and fertility in health care centers and clinics

F-Pain relief in nursing and midwifery care

G- Family-oriented support and care in chronic diseases

K- Operational methods in home care

5-Complementary and alternative medicine in nursing, midwifery and reproductive health

6-Midwifery and nursing care in emergency and special cases

A- Midwifery care in midwifery emergencies, especially bleeding during pregnancy, delivery and after delivery

B- Midwifery care in high-risk pregnancies, with emphasis on pregnancy-induced hypertension (PIH), gestational diabetes, pregnancy in old women and pregnancy in chronic diseases

C- Nursing and midwifery care in epidemics (such as corona)

D-General principles of care and prevention of early death in cardiac patients

E- General principles of care and prevention acute and chronic complications in patients hospitalized in intensive care units

F- Need assessment and conducting clinical studies of sexual health for people with special, chronic and contagious diseases (AIDS, genital warts, HTLV1, and etc.)

G- Strategies for prevention, screening and care in violence (domestic, hospital, sexual, and etc.)

7-Designing educational-care guidelines and developing instruments for nursing and midwifery care

A- Designing educational-care guidelines in reproductive and sexual health focused on reducing midwifery errors and rational prescription of drugs and herbal products (focus on clinical interventions)

B- Designing, implementing and monitoring preventive care for improving the quality of reproductive and sexual health

C- Designing sexual health care-educational guidelines for Muslim teenagers and youth

D- Developing and determining psychometrics properties of nursing and midwifery care tools

 8-Ethical and legal issues in nursing and midwifery care

 

 

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