Table 2.

Main theme, main classes, and subclasses derived from data.

Main Theme	Main Class	Subclass	Codes
Challenging care	Mutual factors affecting care	Care inhibitors	Related to nursing (shortage of nurse, financial problems of nurses, family problems, inexperienced nurses, nurse’s fatigue and mental pressure, and heavy work shifts)
			Related to patients (hard to gain the trust of patients and emotional sensitivity of patients)
			Due to poor management (poor ventilation, lack of equipment technicians, shortage of equipment and devices, poor cooperation of head nurses with nurses)
		Care facilitators	Nurse’s high experience, emotional relationship between the nurse and the patient, high educational level of the nurse, and safe therapeutic environment
	Care outcomes	Negative effects of care on the nurse	Negative personal physical effects (facing physical harms) and emotional (irritability, bad temper), exhaustion, obsessive thoughts regarding health, feeling of depression)
			Negative family effects (neglecting children, failure to meet spouse’s needs, and inability to handle housekeeping duties)
		Positive effects of care on the patient	Reduced physical problems, reduced complications, improving the patient’s mental state and feeling safe, increasing patient’s life expectancy and interdependencies between the patient and the nurse