title: Exploring experiences of the quality of nursing care among patients, nurses, caregivers and physicians in a haemodialysis department.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Providing high-quality care to patients undergoing haemodialysis (HD) is a priority for nurses. The present study was conducted to explore the experiences of the quality of nursing care among patients, nurses, caregivers and physicians in an HD department in Iran.
  
  
  METHODS
  This was a qualitative study, set in the HD department of Kowsar Hospital in Semnan, Iran. A total of 20 participants (patients, caregivers, nurses and doctors) were selected and were invited to semi-structured interviews with open-ended questions. The data obtained were analysed using conventional content analysis.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The analysis of the data led to the extraction of four themes: maintaining health, person/client, nursing responsibility and environment.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The findings of the present study showed that maintaining health, person/client interaction, nursing responsibility and environment are four important nursing metaparadigms that affect the quality of nursing care in HD departments.
authors.affiliation: Nursing Care Research Center, Semnan University of Medical Sciences, Semnan, Iran.|Department of Nursing, Faculty of Nursing and Allied Health, Semnan University of Medical Sciences, Semnan, Iran.
authors.forename: Monir
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Nobahar
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007492:Iran; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009726:Nurses / Q000523:psychology*; D009732:Nursing Care / Q000523:psychology / Q000592:standards*; D010361:Patients / Q000523:psychology*; D010820:Physicians / Q000523:psychology*; D036301:Qualitative Research; D006435:Renal Dialysis / Q000379:methods / Q000451:nursing* / Q000592:standards
keywords: Content analysis; Haemodialysis; Nursing; Quality of nursing care