Managing Populations While Managing Diseases

Telemedicine application in diagnosing and managing heart diseases in neonates and children: A systematized review

مدیریت و اجرای نمونه‌گیری از معتادان تزریقی در معرض بیماری‌های پرخطر

Objectives: Study of hidden populations such as Injection Drug Users (IDU) due to their exposing to high risk diseases and their roll in public health is very crucial. Conventional statistical methods for sampling these populations are not applicable because of the restrictions these populations are faced. Despite the introduction of respondent driven sampling as a successful method for samplin...

Educational Process of Interns in Obstetrics & Gynecology Department at Zahedan University of Medical Sciences in 2002

Introduction. Investigating educational situations of interns in different departments is one of the objectives of educational planning in order to prevent a low quality education and provide some solution for that. This study was done to investigate the learning situation of male and female interns in Obstetrics and Gynecology Department at Zahedan University of Medical Sciences in order to co...

A Framework for Compassion-Based Teaching

To present a framework for compassionate teaching, the views of teachers and students on the topic were sought. These informants were chosen from among their corresponding populations in Tehran, using the snowball and mixed methods. Semi-structured interviews were used to gather the needed data. To analyze the data open coding and descriptive categorization were utilized. Results show that from...

Nurses' knowledge, attitudes, and practices in managing urinary incontinence in the acute care setting.

Urinary incontinence (UI) is costly, promotes skin breakdown, and delays hospital discharge. While the majority of clinical and research initiatives have focused on managing UI in the nonacute settings, managing UI in the acute care setting is a concern. This review addresses acute care nurses' knowledge, attitudes, and practices regarding UI.