title: Futile care; concept analysis based on a hybrid model.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Making decision about what kind of caring is entitled as futile care requires the presentation of a clear definition of such caretaking.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  To report an analysis of the concept of futile care.
  
  
  METHODS
  The analysis in this research was carried out through hybrid model in three stages. At the theoretical stage:  a review of the available literature. At the work-in-field stage: semi-structured interviews.
  
  
  METHODS
  Data collection was on cancer unit and palliative care unit.
  
  
  METHODS
  A total of 7 participants were recruited in the study. The inclusion criteria were: having at least a bachelor's degree in nursing, having at least 5 years of experience in critical care or cancer units, and being willing to participate in the study.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Three themes emerged: "low quality of life", "lack physiologic return to life" and "performing non-professional duties".
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Futile care consists giving clinical cares irrelevant to a nurse's job and giving cares through which the return of patient would be impossible both physiologically and qualitatively.
authors.forename: Fatemeh
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Bahramnezhad
authors.forename: Mohammad Ali
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Cheraghi
authors.forename: Mahvash
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Salsali
authors.affiliation: . P_marjan@ymail.com.
authors.forename: Parvaneh
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Asgari
authors.forename: Fatemeh
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Khoshnava Fomani
authors.forename: Mahnaz
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Sanjari
authors.forename: Pouya
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Farokhnezhad Afshar
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003657:Decision Making; D005260:Female; D006757:Hospital Units; D006801:Humans; D007407:Interviews as Topic; D007492:Iran; D008297:Male; D018447:Medical Futility / Q000523:psychology*; D008875:Middle Aged; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000628:therapy; D010166:Palliative Care / Q000379:methods; D010348:Patient Care Team; D011788:Quality of Life