Background and Objectives. Awareness about the patients� needs and expectations is quite important in improving the quality of\r\nthe services they are provided with. Since meeting the needs and expectations of the patients is one of the basic issues in patient\r\ncare, the present study aimed to investigate the patients� expectations from nurses and nursing care. Methods. In this qualitative\r\nstudy, 20 hospitalized patients were interviewed. The data were gathered through deep, semistructured interviews. Then, all the\r\nrecorded interviews were transcribed, reviewed for several times, and analyzed using qualitative content analysis approach. Results.\r\nBy analyzing of data, threemain categorieswere extracted.Themain categories of the patients� expectations fromnurses and nursing\r\ncare were comprehensive care, ethical performance, and having proper individual characteristics. Discussion and Conclusion. The\r\nstudy results revealed that the patients expected comprehensive care fromthe nurses. In addition, the nurses were required to apply\r\nthe ethical principles in what they do as their duties. The findings of the study can be helpful in improving the patient care.
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