NURSES' PERCEPTIONS OF CARING OF EMERGING AVIAN INFLUENZA DISEASE

The problem of emerging infectious disease has recently captured the public
imagination and the attention of the scientific community. Nurses have basic role in health care
system. “The present study was conducted aiming to examine the phenomenology of Emerging and
Re-emerging disease”
Material & Method: A phenomenological qualitative approach was used in the year 2012-13 in a
teaching hospital in Tehran. A sample of nurses was chosen based on the purposeful sampling method.
Sample size was dependent on the data saturation with a total of 16 participants at the end. Data
gathering was done using deep interviews, and the data was later analyzed through Celasi method.
Results: Findings based on the nurses’ experiences of Caring of Emerging avian influenza disease
were extracted in 9 sub concepts and 3 main themes understanding and monitoring patient , exposure
to life-threatening environmental precautions and nurses were extracted.
Conclusion: According to these findings ,Regard to globalization and changing trends in diseases
prevalence in local different, nurses should have perspective epidemiologic. It needs revision of
nursing curriculum with considering of the emerging re-emerging diseases