title: Disciplined care for disciplined patients: experience of hospitalized blind patients.
abstract: Blindness is a permanent condition that alters daily life of blind people. Interpretive phenomenology was used to understand lived experiences of the hospitalized blind people. "Disciplined care for disciplined patients" was one of the themes that emerged from the data. Provision of disciplined care can help health care professionals provide a holistic and comprehensive competent care for blind patients.
authors.affiliation: Departments of Medical-Surgical Nursing (Mr Shamshiri), Neonatal Intensive Care (Ms Sadeghi), and Critical Care Nursing (Drs Mohammadi, Cheraghi), Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery, and Centre for Nursing Research, Brain and Spinal Cord Injury Research Centre (Dr Mohammadi), Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran; and Kuopio University Hospital, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland (Dr Vehviläinen-Julkunen).
authors.forename: Mahmood
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Shamshiri
authors.forename: Nooredin
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Mohammadi
authors.forename: Mohammad Ali
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Cheraghi
authors.forename: Katri
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Vehviläinen-Julkunen
authors.forename: Tahereh
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Sadeghi
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D018939:Holistic Nursing; D006760:Hospitalization; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D019987:Persons with Visual Disabilities