[Comparing the effect of feedback lecture and conventional lecture on the students' learning and satisfaction to teach intensive nursing cares]

Introduction: Although traditional lecture method is a good way to transfer knowledge and information; however, it is not a proper approach to teach complex and abstract subjects, prolonged learning, and higher level of learning such as analysis and synthesis. The present study was conducted to compare the effect of feedback lecture with traditional lecture on the students' learning and satisfaction in intensive nursing cares

Method: A quasi-experimental design was selected to conduct this study at school of nursing and midwifery affiliated to Yasuj University of Medical Sciences at the first academic year 2011. Twenty-six sessions of intensive nursing cares lesson were randomly allocated between feedback lecture as test group and traditional lecture as control group. The sample of the study consists of 33 nursing students at sixth semester of their academic years. Students' learning was evaluated by pre-test, posttest, mid-term and final exams. A valid and reliable form was used to assess the students' satisfaction and their perspective on teaching methods. Collected data were analyzed using SPSS version 17 and statistical t-test, Mann-Whitney test

Results: The findings showed a statistical significant difference in the mean scores of midterm and final exams between traditional lecture and feedback lecture [P=0.001]. Although the students were pleased with both of the teaching methods; however, a significant difference was observed in the students' satisfaction with feedback lecture [P<0.05]. Better comprehension of taught subject matters, preparation and pre-teaching study, immediate feedback and further acceptance of received comments from the students reported as positive educational outcomes of feedback lecture

Conclusion: The findings of this study showed that feedback lecture was more effective than the traditional lecture on students' learning. Based on the students' satisfaction and their suggestion to teach other subjects through feedback lectures, further studies are suggested to compare quality of learning through feedback lectures in other nursing courses

Positive effects of illness following acute myocardial infarction

Myocardial infarction is an important event and a huge change in patients' and their family life. The negative psychosocial consequences of the disease are well documented. However, studies on positive effects following myocardial infarction are much more limited. The aim of this study was to explore positive effects of illness following acute myocardial infarction. This paper is a part of findings of a more extensive grounded theory study. Eighteen people with first time myocardial infarction were selected by purposeful and theoretical sampling. Semi-structured interviews were used for data collection. The data were analyzed using constant comparison method. The findings showed that the participants have experienced one or more positive effects of the disease. Positive effects of illness were emerged in three main categories including: healthy lifestyle, worthwhile life/health, and promotion of social interaction/ interpersonal relationship. Patient with myocardial infarction experience huge tensions. However, the disease would also result in positive effects which could, in turn, facilitate recovery from illness and the process of adjustment to illness

nurse role and value from Yasouj people view point

The nursing is a dynamic profession that it's functions are continuously changing. During the nursing history, nurses had an important role in providing the remedy services. What is important in this field is the meditation of society which guide the nurses to understand this fact that, each person has right to have a suitable health and remedy services. So this research has been done to determine the type of view point of society people to the subject. This research is a descriptive analytic type, which has been done in 2002 on 657 persons in Yasouj. The tools and devices for collecting data was a questionnaire with three section information about demography, nurses multi roles and view points about the nursing nobility. Method of sampling was simple and was based on the available samples. The collected data were analyzed by use of SPSS soft ware, descriptive parameters and T test, Correlation test and analysis of Variance. The results showed positive view point of most people [79.5%] about the multi roles of nurse in the society. The statistical studies showed that, 86.8% of people had a positive aspect to nursing profession. There was no significant difference in the view point of people in different education level, age, sex and job to these roles. The other results showed that, there was positive aspect due to nursing profession [p<0.05]. Since most of questioned samples had positive aspect towards nursing profession, there is a suitable condition to introduce the role and position of nurse in the society in order to expand good nursing services in health and medical system