تجارب بیماران جراحی قلب باز از پذیرش تا ترخیص: یک مطالعه کیفی

Abstract Aims: open heart surgery is a stressful experience for the patients and their family. Patients from admission time to discharge experience different level of anxiety and in order to cope with that they use some strategies. This study had been done with the aim of identification of the experiences of open heart surgery patients from admission to discharge. Methods: Samples had been chosen purposefully from ۸ women and ۱۰ men who were under open heart surgery in three centers of educational hospitals of Tehran in ۲۰۱۲. Data were collected through unstructured interviews. With qualitative approach of analyzing the content of Graneheim;Lundman ۲۰۰۴had been analyzed. Results: From analyzing data three themes including Stuckat thecrossroadsof deaththreats, seeking a way to stay and forced to compromise with the situation had been emerged. Themes and subthemes indicate anxieties and strategies of the patients in hospital environment. Conclusion: Facing several stressful factors during care period and not meeting physical, psychological and educational needs lead to feeling fear and threat in the patients. Patients’ attempt in these adverse care conditions is self-protection with using different strategies. So real identification of patients’ needs and anxieties is very important in clinical nurses’ care planning.