Adoption of quick response codes as a digital microlearning tool among clinical nurses: a quasi-experimental study.

Background: The rapid growth of technology forced enormous changes in the provision of healthcare services. Different strategies are used to keep nurses up to date with rapid changes in health systems. Microlearning is one of the new methods of teaching professional skills to health workers.

Prevalence of Middle Mesial Canal in Mandibular First Permanent Molars in a Persian Population: An In Vivo Cone-Beam Computed Tomography Study.

Objectives: This study aimed to identify the prevalence of the middle mesial canal (MMC) in mandibular first permanent molars in a Persian subpopulation sample using cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT). The secondary aim was to correlate the incidence of MMC with variables such as gender, age, and the presence of an additional distal canal.

Materials And Method: A total of 390 mandibular first molars from 314 CBCT images were retrospectively evaluated.

Design of vestibules as transitional spaces in infection control: Necessity of working space changes to cope with communicable infections.

Background: After the spread of infectious diseases, people stay at home as a shelter space to be safe and sound. Current homes and work spaces have shown not to be a good environment for health and hygiene. During different crises of infectious diseases, architects and designers analyze the needs for change and evolve of environments to achieve a suitable design that prevents the spread of pathogens.

Comparing the Effects of Mobile-Based Education and Booklet-Based Education on Iranian Mothers' Perception on Antibiotics: A Quasi-Experimental Study.

Purpose: The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of mobile-based education in comparison with booklet-based education on mothers' perception on antibiotics.

Design And Methods: This quasi-experimental study was performed on 160 mothers of children aged 1 to 6 years (80 in the experimental group and 80 in the control group) who referred to the urban community health centers in Iran. Both groups were taught about the proper use of antibiotics.

Usability of a Disease Management Mobile Application as Perceived by Patients With Diabetes.

The use of mobile applications in chronic disease management has grown significantly over the past decade. When properly designed, these apps provide a convenient, safe, high-quality service to patients. In this study, a health management app was developed, and its usability among patients with diabetes mellitus was examined.

Investigating the effect of local warming on vein diameter in the antecubital area in adults aged 20-40 years.

Background: peripheral intravenous cannulation is the most prevalent invasive procedure performed on patients admitted to hospital. The procedure is not always easy to undertake and can lead to problems for the patient and nurse. Alongside various procedures, local warming is one technique that could be used to increase the diameter of superficial veins.

Assessing Emergency Nurses' Clinical Competency: An Exploratory Factor Analysis Study.

Background: Nursing as a clinical discipline is developing in the emergency wards. Health care systems should continuously assess and prioritize indicators of clinical competency in these wards. The lack of clear standards of clinical competency indicators challenges evaluation.

Competence development among nurses: the process of constant interaction.

Background: The importance of competence to nursing practice was the motivation for this study, which explored nurses' experience in developing their competence as they progress through their careers.

Methods: In accordance with grounded theory method, data collection and data analysis were performed simultaneously using the constant comparative method.

Results: Data revealed that nurses developed competence through an iterative process called "the process of constant interaction.

Nursing education in Iran: past, present, and future.

Nursing education in Iran has undergone significant change since its genesis with foreign missionaries over one hundred years ago. More recently, following the 1979 Islamic revolution, nurse education has followed the direction taken by most other countries in moving from an apprenticeship model of training to an academic model. A series of transformative changes to nursing education specifically-and across the higher education system generally-has resulted in nurses now being able to undertake study across all university-based programs up to and including doctoral level.