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Table 2 Subthemes and related codes of Feeling self as a useful tool in God’s hand

From: The moderating effect of spiritual beliefs on job dissatisfaction related to the futile care

Main Theme

Sub-themes

Codes

Feeling self as a useful tool in God’s hand

Providing care while knowing it is futile

Doing the best, I can do

Work-based on duty

My duty is to care

It is difficult

The patient will not survive

Not knowing the patient destiny

Do not know the future

God decides about destiny

What will happen is out of our control

The only god knows the future

What will happen is out of our knowledge

Everything is possible

Hoped to care to be fruitful

Having hope

Everything we do is matter

Disappointment is a sin in Islam

Do not give up

Experiences of patient recovery

There is no 100% confidence in medicine

No certainty based on experience

Recovery of severe cases

The patient survived while we did not have hope

Seeing the patient transferred to the general ward

Acting to be a part of God plan

Being a tool in hands god

Everything is a plan

There is a larger image painted by god

There is a reward from god

Receiving reward from god