Introduction: Nurses should seek the necessary resources to improve the quality of care. In every health care system, for cultural, social, and economic differences, there are increasing needs to the adapted versions of clinical practice guidelines (CPGs). This study aimed to introduce an innovative clinical practice guideline adaptation approach for nurses working in a developing country.
Methods: This study is comprised of three sections as follows; a. the extensive systematic search of the literature, b. the adaptation process, c. the interviews were held with stakeholders, users and/or target population. We applied all of the stages of guideline adaptation process according to ADAPTATION RESOURCE TOOLKIT, with integration the findings of a systematic literature search and a qualitative content analysis in adolopted new CPG.
Results & Conclusion: In this study, to save time and cost and manpower efficiently, we applied a mix of three methods named adopt, adapt and development recommendations, also we integrated qualitative research within the adaptation approach of the recommendations. Given there is a paucity of nursing clinical practice guidelines(NCPGs) in the nursing management of cancer therapy-induced mucositis, and the lack of cost, time and ability to gather skillful experts. We integrate the findings emerged from adopt, Adapt, de novo guideline development by expert consensus and qualitative content analysis(QCA) method for achieving a more comprehensive nursing practice guideline in a developing country.

Dr. Shahin Salarvand is an academic member and researcher. She studied Nursing at the Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Iran. She received her Ph.D. degree in 2018 at the same university. She has published more than 40 research articles in various academic/scholarly journals. At present, she works as a faculty member and associate professor at Lorestan University of Medical Sciences, Iran. She is interested in cooperating with international researchers as a team.