abstract [1]   background and objective:hospital infection is undoubtedly the most important world's problem which is considered by health care centers. lack of proper understanding of staff of infection controling ways and procedures play a decisive role in the increased transmission of infectious agents in hospital infections. if nurses know the proper effective ways they would help to r...

workplace violence against nurses working in khorramabad educational hospitals and their confronting behaviors in violent events    hosseinabadi r [1] biranvand sh [2] *,anbari kh [3] ,heidari h [4]     received: 5 may , 2013 accepted: 4 jul , 2013    abstract  background & aims : workplace violence is considered as a health problem in nursing profession. the aim of this study was to determine ...

AIMS This study aimed to compare the findings of the quality of nursing doctoral education survey across seven countries and discuss the strategic directions for improving quality. BACKGROUND No comparative evaluation of global quality of nursing doctoral education has been reported to date despite the rapid increase in the number of nursing doctoral programmes. DESIGN A descriptive, cross-...

DEDICATION I would like to dedicate my dissertation to my wonderful daughter, Lisa Lamontagne. Lisa greets each day with grace, enthusiasm, and courage. She is an inspiration to me and my greatest source of pride. v ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I would like to thank my dedicated committee for their hard work and tireless efforts on my behalf. I would also like to thank my loving family and friends for their...

a survey on the theory and practice gap in mashhad nursing and midwifery faculty     jahani shoorab n [1] *, golmakani n [2] , mazluom sr [3] , mirzakhani k [4] , azhari s [5] navaiyan a [6]     received: 24may, 2011 accepted: 12september, 2011     abstract   background & aims : according to who, annually, 515,000,000 maternal mortality (mmr) occurs in the world. however, the majority of them a...

The discipline of nursing continues to evolve in keeping with the dramatic expansion of scientific knowledge, technology, and a concomitant increase in complexity of patient care in all practice settings. Changing patient demographics require complex planning for co-morbidities associated with chronic diseases and life-saving advances that have altered mortality in ways never before imagined. T...

Publishing scholarly articles in traditional and newly-launched journals is a responsible task, requiring diligence from authors, reviewers, editors, and publishers. The current generation of scientific authors has ample opportunities for publicizing their research. However, they have to selectively target journals and publish in compliance with the established norms of publishing ethics. Over ...

We agree with Dupoux and Jacob (DJ) [1] that human moral capacities are, in ways yet to be understood, grounded in our biology. However, we disagree with DJ’s outright rejection of the linguistic analogy (LA). Fully cognizant that our present understanding of the moral faculty is no better, and perhaps is worse, than the state of affairs in linguistics circa 1950, we believe that it has opened ...

a survey was conducted to study the nursing faculty,s problems in clinical evaluation of nursing students in iran medical sciences-university, school of nursing and midwifery (tehran 1994) the especific purposes of this study were to identify the personal characteristics of the subjects. to identify the problems they faced in clinical evaluation in relation to certain personal characteristics o...