extract to separate patient from the others is uncomfortable for the patient and for the nurse . some of people see this as a punishment and consider little value for this. but some of people refer to uses and benefits and said:”almost no adverse and mental effects”.   of course, it is very difficult to determine the issues in isolation condition. this paper has offered some suggestions for tak...

conclusions a substantial proportion of patients with urethritis sought help from other sources, rather than physicians. the results of our study show that the patients with higher levels of education were more likely to seek help from health care services. it is important to promote the public’s knowledge through informative studies and educational materials in order to encourage patients to s...

conclusions our results show that the self-management angina plan was effective in improving perception of qol and reducing anxiety. further studies with a larger sample size and a longer follow-up period are recommended to better understand the effectiveness of this plan. background coronary artery diseases are the most frequent cause of mortality in industrialized countries as well as iran. c...

objectives this study aimed to examine the effect of a hospital-based educational program based on the constructs of the health belief model (hbm) on self-care behaviors of patients with hf. methods this controlled quasi-experimental study consisted of 84 patients with hf (42 patients in an intervention group and 42 in a control group) who were admitted to two large, specialized, referral hospi...

an explanatory study was conducted to investigate the nursing care provided to patients with toxemia of pregnancy hospitalized in the medical sciences university hospitals gynecology wards in tehran.   a tot al of 65 patients with toxemia hospitalized in gynecologic wards in 14 hospitals supervised by tehran,   shahid beheshti and iran universities were selected.   the data were gathered upon r...

background: consumer satisfaction is recognized as an important parameter for assessing the quality of patient care services. materials and methods: by using quota sampling method and questionnaire device, 392 mothers were selected who had been hospitalized for cesarean section in the public and private hospitals of tabriz. statistical package for social sciences (spss) version 13, descriptive ...

background posttraumatic stress disorder (ptsd) is a severe anxiety disorder occurred due to past adverse experiences. several researches have demonstrated that ptsd is quite common among patients discharged from critical care unit. conclusions prevalence of ptsd is high among patients discharged from icus and some medical individual factors such as elderly, unemployed, being single, using mech...

background prehospital management of gunshot-wounded (gw) patients influences injury-induced morbidity and mortality. objectives to evaluate prehospital management to gw patients emphasizing the protocol of patient transfer to appropriate centers. patients and methods this prospective study, included all gw patients referred to four major, level-i hospitals in mashhad, iran. we evaluated demogr...

Introduction: Fazio-Londe disease is a genetic rare disorder manifesting by acute respiratory distress.  This article is a case report of Fazio-Londe syndrome, its comparison with other case reports in the literature and its patient-centered nursing care.  Case presentation: In this study, we reported a case with Fazio-Londe syndrome with respiratory distress, bulbar palsy, muscle weakness, an...