The Visiting Hour

visiting hour policies in intensive care units, southern iran

Visiting Hour Policies in Intensive Care Units, Southern Iran

Dear Editor, Admission to intensive care unit (ICU) is potentially a stressful experience for both the patients and their families. In addition to pain and severity of the critical diseases, sleeplessness, immobility and overwhelming noises from ICU equipments, anxiety from overhearing the stranger and unfamiliar conversations of the staff and visitors about the patients' conditions, psychologi...

Visiting the Gödel Universe

Visualization of general relativity illustrates aspects of Einstein's insights into the curved nature of space and time to the expert as well as the layperson. One of the most interesting models which came up with Einstein's theory was developed by Kurt Gödel in 1949. The Gödel universe is a valid solution of Einstein's field equations, making it a possible physical description of our universe....

Health Visiting

This is a textbook for Health Visitor students and is intended to cover the new syllabus of the Royal Sanitary Institute. The author makes it quite clear that she is not attempting to deal with subjects on which specialist books arc available, but merely to give students a reference book to help them in their work. The various social services arc described and much of the book is taken up with ...

Re-visiting the atmospheric corona.

The atmospheric corona is a well-known diffraction phenomenon, typically seen as colored rings surrounding the Sun or Moon. In many respects, Fraunhofer diffraction provides a good explanation of the corona. As the angular sizes of the corona's rings are inversely proportional to the radius, r, of the spherical particles causing the corona, it should be easy to estimate the particle size from o...