background few studies, especially in iran, have assessed the status of family participation in the care of the hospitalized patients. objectives this study was conducted to assess why family members partake in caregiving of their patients in hospitals, the type of care that family provide, and the outcomes of the participation in the opinions of nurses and family members. patients and methods ...

background & objective: patient satisfaction is the main indicator of the quality of healthcare systems. usually in pediatric works parents are questioned due to lack of appropriate scale. therefore, this study was done to assess the children’s satisfaction themselves by drawing which is an applicable scale for them.patients & methods: this study was done with 20 hospitalized children aged 6-12...

background critically ill patients under mechanical ventilation require frequent suctioning of airway secretion. closed suction permits suctioning without disconnection from ventilator; so it might decrease hypoxemia and infection rate. objectives this study aimed to evaluate the effect of closed tracheal suction system (ctss) versus open tracheal suction system (otss). patients and methods thi...

abstract background: application of a reliable and authentic behavioral tool for measuring patients’ pain, hospitalized in intensive care units who are not able to establish relationship, is needed severely. therefore, this study is conducted with the aim of validating critical care pain observation tool (cpot) in patients hospitalized in surgical wards. materials and methods: cpot was first tr...

introduction: trauma is the most common cause of mortality in the 1 to 44 years age group and third leading cause of mortality in the world. in general, determination of defects caused by trauma has an essential role in management of traumatic patients. use of scoring systems for evaluation of static and dynamic states of traumatic events can decrease the mortality and morbidity rates. differen...

between 33%-46% of admissions in the emergency department(ed) are advanced or end-stage cancer patients. they usually stay in emergency for days for management of their symptoms (commonly pain and respiratory distress) or for terminal care. barriers for delivering palliative care services in the ed:- traditional attitude among the ed staff that practice life saving approaches for every patient ...

background: job satisfaction remains as an important concern for both employer and employee. the leaving of work­place and migration to city centers is one of the main results of job dissatisfaction among the primary health care (phc) provid­ers in rural setting of iran, behvarzes. determining the predictor's factors of the phc providers' job dissatisfac­tion and provid­ing appropriate strategi...

conclusions iranian nurses in east azerbaijan provence have negative attitudes toward different aspects of euthanasia and this negative attitude is not related to religious or legal issues. so, searching for the reasons for such an attitude needs more investigation. results participants had a negative attitude towards all aspects of euthanasia. they reported that they would not participate in e...

background: magnesium (mg) is a necessary element in a vast number of enzymatic paths throughout the body, so, its cellular mechanisms affect clinical outcome; it is also the main second intracellular cation playing a crucial role in atp/adp energy conversion. lack of mg is usually reported in 10% of hospitalized patients worldwide. chronic hypomagnesaemia is also in correlation with many chron...

background patient satisfaction is essential and must be taken into account when decisions are being made about changes and enhancements to services. objectives the aim of the current study was to assess patient satisfaction with the medical and nursing services provided to patients admitted to teaching hospitals affiliated to arak university of medical sciences. materials and methods this was ...