The term professional failure to thrive arose from descriptions of non-organic failure to thrive in infants and observations of nurses' behaviours. First coined by Stamler in 1997, subsequent unrelated research results have supported the theoretical construct. In an era when patient safety and high-quality care have never been more important, and nursing retention has reached heretofore unknown...

The process of taking in and swallowing food or drink involves three linked anatomical and physiological regions connected to each other both anatomically and neurologically. The non-nutritive suck is first seen in the fetus between 18 and 24 weeks. The second type of suck is the nutritive or “active feeding suck”, which is more mature and complex and is designed to deal with fluid. It is estim...

asthma and cystic fibrosis (cf) have some identical manifestations. in the present study, the frequency of positive sweat test was assessed in asthmatic children. this cross-sectional study was performed in asthmatic children, who were referred to bahrami children hospital, tehran, during july 2003 to july 2005. sweat test was performed for all children. one hundred and thirty five (95 males an...