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- Title
Concept of Love in Nursing Based on the Iranian View: Love, True Meaning, or Virtual?
- Authors
Ghorbani, Azam; Sadat Hoseini, Akram Sadat
- Abstract
Love is a concept with a special position in human interaction and the definitions of love vary by societies. Also, a common understanding of love in nursing was not located, and very few studies have attempted to describe the concept of love in nursing. This concept analysis aimed to analyze the concept of love in nursing by accounting for the views of scholars and Iranian intellectuals using the seven stages of Meleis's conceptualization. Based on the perspectives of Iranian intellectuals, the love and affection of nurses toward their patients derive from their love of God. This affection is inherent in nurses and manifests itself during nursing practice. The results indicated that love in nursing is the excessive affection/compassion that nurses have toward their patients and is derived from loving God and nurses' desire to achieve excellence, which is God. Loving patients leads to nurses' growth and spiritual development.
- Subjects
IRAN; FRIENDSHIP; PUBLISHING; CULTURE; SPIRITUALITY; NURSING; ATTITUDE (Psychology); PROFESSIONAL employee training; ALTRUISM; NURSING theory; SIMULATION methods in education; HEALTH outcome assessment; NURSING career counseling; NURSING practice; COMPASSION; QUALITATIVE research; SURVEYS; NURSE-patient relationships; HUMANITY; RESPONSIBILITY; PSYCHOLOGY of scientists; INTERPERSONAL relations; TERMS &; phrases; LOVE; PHILOSOPHY; EMOTIONS; EXCELLENCE; CONCEPTS; RELIGION; ENCYCLOPEDIAS &; dictionaries
- Publication
International Journal for Human Caring, 2024, Vol 28, Issue 1, p26
- ISSN
1091-5710
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.20467/IJHC-2022-0022