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Lower limb varicose Veins commonly occurs in the general population. The physical conditions during the work and conditions of employment are important risk factors that induced prevalence varicose veins are increased. For instance prolong standing posture and physical state is irreversible in the nursing profession. Thus the purpose of the present study was to determine the Prevalence and relationship work factors and demographic with lower limb varicose veins in Nurses. In the cross-sectional study was carried out in the 203 nurses in Amol hospital. It was done with the content of the subjects. After filling out the questionnaires by the subjects, they were examined based on CEAP classification system. The gather information was done by the use of Chi-Square, exact fisher and independent sample T test. A probably level of P<0.05 was accepted as statistically significant. 145 nurses were female and age average was 34.2 years; 40.9 of them were over weighted. Prevalence of Varicose vein was 73.9%. There was a significant relationship between varicose vein and female gender [P=0.03], exercise [p=0.001], BMI [P=0.003], family history [P=0.01], regular bowel movement [p=0.005], age [P=0.04], weight [P<0.0001], over time work [P=0.001], sitting [P=0.01] and standing posture at workplace [P<0.00l]. Our results show a high prevalence varicose vein of the lower limbs in the nurses of Amol hospital. This disorder causes the physical problems and excess morbidity and it can affected on professional nurses' practices, so risk factor control and preventing of these factors are important
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By Progress in new industry and technology and related problems psychic disease and disorders had much increased the same as somatic disorders. While psychic health of students is of grate importance it is necessary to consider and study their emotional and psychic problems. This study is a cross-sectional analysis which was done an first and last grade students of Amol Nursing Department [85 people]. The data collection was through questionnaire including the following parameters: age, marital status, studying grade, residence status, family's address, studying status, general health questionnaire include 28 questions [GHQ-28]. Results obtained from analysis of student's answers to test GHQ-28 showed that 30.6 percent [26 people] of all students had psychic disorders, witch 65.4 percent [17 people] were last grade, and 34.6 percent [9 people] were first grade students. The percentage of last grade students was higher on somatic disorders, depression and anxiety. The so called students showed high percentage of disorders mentioned above[p<0.05]. Studying nursing can result in disorder in one's confrontational mechanisms and appearance of neurosis or psychosis in students because of nature of their major and longtime psychic stress. Various studies showed that psychic health system universities are efficient in decreasing psycho-social problems and disorders in students
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Background and Objective: Healthcare staffs want to use an accurate method for taking blood sample. To prevent frequent venipunctures in patients who require a routine blood sampling for controlling PT and PTT, 2 methods of Saline lock catheter flushing and Heparin lock catheter flushing were compared to each other
Methods: This study was performed on 60 patients. They were divided into 2 equal groups. Vein catheter for 1 group was flushed by heparinized Saline and for the other group was flushed by saline. 2 blood samples were obtained, one from vein by needle and the other from catheter after 2 ml blood aspiration. PT and PTT tests were performed by coagulometer. Data were analyzed and compared by T-test and paired T-test
Findings: It was not seen a significant difference for PT in 2 methods of Saline lock and Heparin lock with direct method. There was a significant difference for PTT between Heparin lock and direct method [P=0.000] and also between Heparin lock and Saline lock [P=0.006]
Conclusion: According to the results, vein Saline lock catheter in comparison to heparinized catheter is a reliable and proper method for coagulation studies. With regard to advantages of normal saline in comparison to heparin, it is suggested that saline to be used for flushing peripheral cannulas