Majid Nimroozi, Alireza Salehi, Abdolali Mohagheghzadeh, Hossein Kiani, Mohammadhadi Imanieh, Mahmood Nejabat,
Volume 4, Issue 1 (12-2010)
Abstract
The medical Arjuze is one of the less known works of Avicenna, a great Iranian scientist and physician, which is written didactically in Arabic. In this book, Avicenna has composed 1326 lines about a complete cycle of traditional medicine of Iran in Arabic in the form of battle cry. Didactic poetry is one of the poetry forms which its main purpose is to provide educational aims and to convey scientific terms both in literature and poetical way. Avicenna's poetry in Arjuze is simple and fluent. The medical topics are overviewed in a sketchy way and not in full details in this book. In this book, theoretical and practical medicines are explained in two specific parts.
The existence of French and English translations of Arjuze shows the value of this work for Europeans as a complete outline about medicine in that time, but there is no Persian translation of this work, available. Traditional Medicine and History of Medicine Research Centre of Shiraz University of Medical Sciences has started the translation of medical Arjuze with the aim of introducing this precious work which shows the educational pattern of traditional Iranian scientists in using didactic poetry.
The purpose of this article is to introduce the characteristics of Avicenna's Arjuze with an overview of his position in modern traditional medicine.
Mohsen Rezaei Aderyani, Saeid Nazari Tavakkoli, Mehrzad Kiani, Mahmood Abbasi, Mohsen Javadi,
Volume 10, Issue 0 (3-2017)
Abstract
Medical ethics is an old science. Some of its issues have historical precedence, and others are modern challenges, and have emerged with advances in technology. One of such historic but newly emerging challenges is "bi’natijeghi-e-pezeshki (futile treatment)", which is defined as the treatment that cannot achieve its goal. This term entered medical literature as "medical futility" in late 1980s. Based on this investigation, it can be concluded that this term should only be used when the desired outcome following medical procedure and the outcome sought by the medical team and patient/family (patient's health) is unlikely to be realized. There are various equivalents for this term in our country (Islamic Republic of Iran), including "bi’fayedegi-e-pezeshki (medical uselessness)", "bi’houdeghi (frivolity) in medicine", and even "inappropriate treatment". The present article aimed to find a suitable Persian equivalent for this concept. The use of interpretations such as "frivolity" or "uselessness" may cause misunderstanding between patient/family and the medical team, and can ruin the trust between patient/family and the medical team. Thus, the best alternative to this English term appears to be "bi’natijeghi-e-pezeshki (futile treatment)".
Saeed Khakdal , Arefe Kiani, Hossien Ghamari,
Volume 12, Issue 0 (3-2019)
Abstract
Nurses are always exposed to job burnout due to high workload. This research was performed to investigate relationship between need for drama and work context with job burnout in nurses. The study was a descriptive survey. The whole nurses Ardabil city, comprised the statistical population of this research. From this population, 247 nurses were selected by convenience sampling method. For data collection the following questionnaires were used: job burnout questionnaire (Cronbach's alpha coefficient0.76), work context questionnaire (Cronbach's alpha coefficient 0.83) and need for drama scale (Cronbach's alpha coefficient 0.81). For data analysis, descriptive statistics and statistics from Pearson correlation coefficient and multiple regression were used. Results showed that between work context and job burnout (p<0.01) there is a significant negative relationship and between need for drama and job burnout (p<0.01) there is a significant positive relationship. The results showed that the relationship between need for drama and work context are two factors that affect the job burnout, which more attention to these indicators can reduce burnout in nurses.
