Fatemeh Karimi was born in 1984 in Shahreza/ Isfahan, Iran. She received her B.Sc. in pure Chemistry (2006) and M.Sc. in Organic Chemistry (2008) from Isfahan University of Technology, Iran, under the supervision of professor Abdol Reza Hajipour. She is currently working towards her Ph.D. under the supervision of professor Mohammad Ali Zolfigol at Bu-Ali Sina University. Her research interest i...

In this column, the author provides a general overview of selected theories derived from Rogerian nursing science. After a brief discussion of the Rogerian perspective, she highlights representative theories. She suggests that ongoing development of proposed theories has been relatively slow for two main reasons. First, scholars still use the 1970 book as a major reference. Unfortunately, despi...

You are in your office seeing patients when a nurse calls from the nursing home to report the urinalysis results of Mrs. X. Mrs. X, 75 years-old, with mild Alzheimer’s dementia, was admitted to the facility for rehabilitation and low back pain control after two falls. Her medical history also includes hypertension, hyperlipidemia, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), osteoporosis, and ...

A 3 month old baby presents with poor feeding and failure to thrive. She was born at term after a normal pregnancy. Mum describes that the baby always breathes very fast, that she takes a long time to feed and gets very sweaty. On examination the baby is pink, malnourished and breathless. She has a respiratory rate of 50 and has marked intercostal and sub-costal recession. She has a loud pan-sy...

A 3 month old baby presents with poor feeding and failure to thrive. She was born at term after a normal pregnancy. Mum describes that the baby always breathes very fast, that she takes a long time to feed and gets very sweaty. On examination the baby is pink, malnourished and breathless. She has a respiratory rate of 50 and has marked intercostal and sub-costal recession. She has a loud pan-sy...

time and perception are two major concerns of woolf in many of her novels and short stories. woolf as a modernist writer often tries in her fiction to find an epistemological solution to the problems of mortality and immortality, appearance and reality and diversity and unity and she succeeds, i think, by taking on a kind of perception that is intuitive and temporal. for her, true perception is...

Fatemeh Karimi Tabar was born in Asadabad/Hamedan (Iran) in 1986. She completed her B.Sc. in chemistry in 2008 from Bu-Ali Sina University, Hamedan, Iran. She was graduated from M.Sc. degree in organic chemistry from Shiraz University 2010, Shiraz, Iran. She is currently Organic Chemistry Ph.D student under the supervision of prof. M.A. Zolfigol and prof. A. Khazaei in department of chemistry a...

This is a report about S.K., a woman who suffered from cancer during the last 8 years of her life, but continued to exercise her free will, and to participate actively in her medical management until she died. This was only possible through an empowering and transparent patient–doctor relationship. Doctors and patients are often faced with the dilemma of undergoing management options which are ...

objective: to report a case of trichotillomania that was resistant to pharmacological treatment but responded well to a behavioral therapy program based on habit reversal. method: the patient was a 47-year-old lady. her problem had started at the age of seventeen. she had experienced several treatments including full doses of antidepressants, mood stabilizers, antipsychotic, and benzodiazepines...

A 43-year-old middle-eastern woman was visited with a 15-year history of multiple painful cutaneous nodules on her back. The first lesion appeared on her back when she was 28 years old. As she aged, the lesions became larger, more numerous, and more painful with cold or physical contact. Her medical history was not significant. The patient’s medications included naproxen, calcium-D, and vitamin...