aims: endotracheal suctioning is a vital process to keep the airways open. the method of performing endotracheal suctioning has a great effect on its complications and effectiveness. this study was carried out with the aim of assessing gap between the knowledge and performance of nurses' working in intensive care units (icu) in tracheal suctioning.   methods: in this cross sectional study,...

OBJECTIVE Developmental care comprises a wide range of medical and nursing interventions used in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) to mitigate and reduce stressors affecting preterm or ill neonates. Because patient satisfaction survey is a valuable quality improvement tool, we aimed to develop and test the psychometric properties of a tool for measuring parent satisfaction of developmenta...

Independent shopping in modern grocery stores that carry thousands of products is a great challenge for people with visual impairments. ShopTalk is a prototype of a wearable system designed to assist visually impaired shoppers with finding shelved products in grocery stores. Using synthetic verbal route directions and descriptions of the store layout, ShopTalk leverages the everyday orientation...

the present study is an attempt to contribute to the l2 acquisition research through finding an appropriate answer to the question usually asked by both language teachers and learners, namely how to learn vocabulary and how to retain meanings in memory over time. we have chosen to discover the effects of two major types of productive exercises, writing and oral production exercises, on the reme...

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to use a systematic review investigate how infection control education has been designed, implemented and evaluated in undergraduate programs nursing.Methods: This conducted base on the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Review Meta-Analysis (PRISMA). To search studies related programs, Ovid-EMBASE, CINAHL, Pubmed, KoreaMed, KMBASE KISS were used. A ...