conclusions it seems that, the preventive instructions are not optimally respected by ers possibly due to the crowded wards, high work load and the need to work rapidly. results cleaning blood tainted skin before phlebotomy or iv line preparation and hand washing before donning latex gloves achieved the maximum (88/150) and minimum (0/150) scores. the most observed barriers of pm were frequent ...

background and purpose: delirium is a clinical syndrome with cognitive disorder, which occurs within a short time in the admitted patients, specially the elderly. regarding the fact that one third of the delirium incidences is preventable, applying nursing preventive measures is an issue of fundamental importance. the present study aimed to perform a systematic review over the nursing preventiv...

the history of five thousand years of human civilization (with only 292 years with no war) and the experiencesof the past two decades of our country shows that the enemies’ approach is based on strong air attack just inthe first month, and civilians bombarding begins if the spirit of national defense continues after two weeks.so the buildings in the cities are damaged in different ways by the a...

preventive maintenance scheduling of generating units is addressed as a long-term scheduling in power system studies aiming to increase the reliability incorporating cost reduction. it consists of knowing which generating units should be shut down for regular safety inspection. in this paper, a new formulation of preventive maintenance scheduling associated with cost reduction index (cri) is pr...

scheduling has become an attractive area for artificial intelligence researchers. on other hand, in today's real-world manufacturing systems, the importance of an efficient maintenance schedule program cannot be ignored because it plays an important role in the success of manufacturing facilities. a maintenance program may be considered as the heath care of manufacturing machines and equip...

the aim of this study was to compare defense styles and mechanisms in adult patients suffering from obsessive-compulsive disorder (ocd), and panic disorder (pd) with normal subjects in iran.defensive patterns of 22 patients with ocd, 28 patients with pd and those of 116 normal individuals (as a control group) were assessed using the farsi version of defense style questionnaire-40 (dsq-40). the ...

the aim of this study was to evaluate the defense cells changes of cervical mucous during follicular and luteal phases of estrus cycle in river buffalo. reproductive organs of the adult and apparently healthy female buffaloes were collected from the slaughterhouse. by visual investigation of both the ovaries for presence of corpus luteum and growing follicles, the luteal and follicular phase of...