The findings are relevant for a clinical practice that promotes a more family-centred approach to allowing FPDR. Creating policy and providing FPDR education for HCPs based on evidence provide more consistency in clinical practice and help to eliminate the moral distress experienced by clinical nurses forced to make difficult decisions during a stressful event.

This study explores the process that led to the male nurse's decision to become a nurse and to remain a nurse. Grounded theory methods were used to generate a descriptive theory of socialization of men into nursing. Data were collected by individual, semi-structured, in-depth interviews with 20 male Registered Nurses (RNs), residing in Massachusetts, with 1 to 35 years of experience as RNs. Analysis was conducted throughout the data collection period. A constant comparative approach was used until saturation of the categories appeared. MaxQDA, a qualitative software package, was used to assist with data management and analysis. A basic social process, socializing men into nursing, emerged from the data. The basic social process comprises a trajectory of four stages, which encompass the path that men travel to become and remain nurses. These stages occur in a linear manner. The first stage is prior to considering nursing. This is followed by choosing nursing, becoming a nurse, and ends with being a nurse. This study has implications for policy development that will influence the recruitment and retention of men in nursing.

Training in smoking cessation counselling and increased awareness of the resources may increase nurses' ability to have an impact on decreasing the smoking prevalence in Jordan.

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