Introduction: Illness, hospitalization and pain are often the first crisis that children are faced with ‎and painful procedure such as IV insertion is inevitable and the most cause of children distress. ‎Therefore proper pain treatment is one of the important goals in hospitalized children. Distraction as ‎a non-medical method is among independent nursing implementation which tends ...

Gamma knife is a new noninvasive method for treatment of patient with brain tumors. ‎Another name of this procedure is steriotatic radiosurgery.‎‏ ‏This computerized advanced ‎technique was implicated by a team including neurosurgeon, neuroradialogist, oncologist, and ‎a nurse. This method is used for treatment of certain brain tumors and lesions. The benefits are ‎l...

Introduction: Information about the nature of disease decreases the anxiety and unusual ‎behaviors of parents specially mothers, and reduces their problems in recurrence of disease, ‎which occurs in at least ‎‏30%‏‎ of cases. Parents want correct information about the status of ‎their hospitalized child and also want to be involved in their child’s care and exp...

Introduction: Prenatal care is an important tool to determine and decrease the risks of delivery ‎outcome such as low birth weight, death or mortality during first year of life. The main objective of ‎these care are healthy delivery without jeopardizing mothers’ health. Some factors prohibit receiving ‎proper and promote prenatal care and cause mother and child health complica...

Introduction: Chronic hemodialysis patients are subjected to different stressors (physiological ‎and psychosocial) and use emotion – focused and problem – focused coping mechanisms that ‎can affect their quality of life.‎  Objective: This study has been performed in order to determine relationdship between ‎severity of stressors, coping mechanisms and quality...

Introduction: In recent years attention to elderly is progressing rapidly in countries. Special ‎attention to their mental and physical need is necessary. Loneliness may occur in all age ‎groups, but this is more a problem peculiar to the elderly. Loneliness is a complex concept, ‎specially affecting the psychosocial well-being of the elderly. The feelings of loneliness have ‎se...

Introduction: Effectiveness of a human factor which depends on their health, motivation, ‎mood and obligation. Personnel’s efficiency who is satisfied with their job and those who are ‎un satisfied has been an issue of discussion with managers.‎ The importance of nursing patients and providing treatment is obvious to the society. ‎Increasing nurses, job satisfaction promot...

Introduction: It is estimated that over ‎‏70%‏‎ of pregnant women experience nausea and vomiting ‎during the first trimester of pregnancy. Pregnancy is associated with intense physical changes in the ‎ability to perform usual roles that may have an adverse effect on quality of life (QOL). ‎ Objective: The aim of this study is to clarify the characteristics of naus...

Introduction: Information and communication technology (ICT), are strengthening ‎technologies used in nursing sciences. Today, people at any part of the world can receive their ‎required information. But no doubt information and communication technologies had their ‎most effect on educational surroundings. Application of ICT on education has led ‎educational surroundings and sci...

Introduction: Schizophrenia is a common and chronic mental disorder. Many of ‎Schizophrenia clients for some reasons stop taking anti psychotic drugs which results in ‎relapse and repeated hospitalizations, inability to keep a job and stigmatization and it can ‎decrease their quality of life. In attention to the point that follow up care at home can effect ‎clients' QOL, this st...