Volume 2 Issue 2
Published: 2014-08-01
Contents
Original Articles
Assessment of Psychological Distress among Pregnant Women in Kirkuk City
Abbas Lateef Muhe AL-deen
Background and Objective: Stress is a psychological state of fatigue or physical fatigue affects an individual in response to psychological pressure or unexpected real life. Stress can be...
Awareness of the Thalassemic Patients’ Parents toward Thalassemia in Kirkuk City
Yousif Abdulmuhsin Salih
Background and objectives:- Thalassemia is a blood disorder passed down through families (inherited) inwhich the body makes an abnormal form of hemoglobin, the protein in red blood cells that...
Assessment of Nurses' Perception about the Nursing Profession in Al-Jamhory Teaching Hospital
Hanaa Hussein Mukhlif, Ahmed Khazzal Saber
Background and objectives: Nursing is a health care profession, which is focused on the care ofindividuals, families, and communities; so that they can attain, maintain, or recover optimum...
Nursing Faculty Opinions about Problem Based Learning (PBL) Method
Rifaie Yaseen Hameed Al-Hussein
Background and Objectives: As a learning strategy, Problem Based Learning (PBL) offers the potentialto bridge the theory practice gap in professional practice, through the recognition and...
Assessment of Nurses Knowledge about Health Education to Patients with Brain Tumors Postoperatively
Shatha Saadi Mohammad
Background and objective: Before, during and after treatment, nurses and allied health professionalsshould inform and educate patients about the risks and complications of any planned diagnostic...
Consequences of Workplace Violence on Nursing Staff Who Working in Educational Baghdad Hospital
Suhad hekmat Khairi
Background and Objective: Violence at work is becoming an alarming phenomenon worldwide.Affecting the dignity of millions of people, violence is a major source of inequality,...
Comparison between Certain Parameters for Diagnosis of Acute Myocardial Infarction
Muthear Nazar Dawood, Akram jarjees Ahmed
Background and Objective: The identification and diagnosis of acute myocardial infarction (AMI) inpatients presented with chest pain pose significant challenges, as the rate of missed AMI cases...
Effect of Telmisartan Versus Captopril on Insulin Resistance in Hypertensive Type 2 Diabetic Patients
Adnan Ali Zainal, Fadhel Abbas Al-Hamamy
Background and objectives: Hypertension is an extremely common co-morbid condition in diabetes.Peripheral insulin resistance (IR) plus compensatory hyperinsulinaemia is a common mechanismunderlying...
A comparative study between Cystatin C based equations in relation to other estimated Glomerular Filtration Rate equations for patients with chronic kidney disease in Mosul city
Mohammed Khalid Nori Al-Nori, Akram jarjees ahmed
Background and objectives: Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is a common problem in public health. Its prevalence has been studied using the estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) by the...
