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Concept of Love in Nursing Based on the Iranian View: Love, True Meaning, or Virtual? Publisher



Ghorbani A1 ; Sadat Hoseini AS2
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  1. 1. School of Nursing and Midwifery, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
  2. 2. Department of Pediatrics and Intensive Care of Neonatal, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Research Center of Quran, Hadith and Medicine, Tehran, Iran

Source: International Journal for Human Caring Published:2024


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. © 2024 International Association for Human Caring.
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