International Journal of Innovative Research and Development

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Violence against nurses prevail across the globe, violence toward nurses working in public sector hospitals in Peshawar is not studied. Objectives: study objectives were to (1) determines physical and verbal violence towards nurses working in public sector hospitals in Peshawar. (2) Identify weather nurses fell safe or not at their workplace in public sector hospital in Peshawar?

Methods: A questionnaire survey. Setting: Hayatabad medical complex Peshawar.

Results: shows that 29% nurses experienced physical violence in the last six months while (67%) nurses experienced verbal abuse in the last six months, more than half (57%) nurse’s not feeling safe in their workplace and majority of study subjects 50 (71%) were witnesses to at least one physical or verbal assaults at their workplace in the last six months.

Conclusion: Measures should be taken at every stage ranging from in service training on identification and skill to deal with at high risk behaviors of patients and their relatives, improvement of working climate to minimize violence and ensure nurses safety at workplace.

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Ischemic heart disease is the most common cause of death in human beings. It is well established cause of mortality and morbidity. Objectives: The main purpose of the study was to analyze different risk factors associated with ischemic heart diseases in different age group patients of both genders of a tertiary care hospital of Peshawar.

Methods: It was a cross-sectional study conducted on 350 patients of different age groups presented with ischemic heart disease in tertiary care hospitals in Peshawar

Results:  study contains 350 patients in which female patients are 133 (38%) and male are 217(62%). The mean age was 57.23±11.36 years. The age of the patients ranges from 22 to 80 years. About 64.3% patients were presenting with acute IHD and 35.7% were with chronic IHD. Stress, HTN, DM and sedentary lifestyle were found to be significantly associated with male gender (p- value <0.05). Age was divided into two groups, <45 years and >45 years. Stress, HTN, DM and hypercholesterolemia had a significant association with >45 years of age group (P-value <0.05). Conclusion: Stress & hypertension are more common in males while sedentary lifestyle and diabetes mellitus are in females and in age group equal to and more than 45 years.

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Background: Development of nursing profession demands acquisition of skills that promote continue and lifelong learning. Self-directed learning is one among those skills which is critical for nursing students, identified in the 21st Century Learning Frameworks.

Objectives:  This study was aimed to determine undergraduate nursing students’ readiness towards self-directed learning at four nursing institutions of Peshawar.

Methods: A questionnaire based cross sectional descriptive study involving convenient sample of undergraduate second year, 4^th semester students from four degree awarding nursing institutions of Peshawar. Level of self-directed learning readiness was determined by utilizing a self-directed learning readiness scale for nursing education (SDLRSNE) Comprising a five points Likert scale 1= strongly agree & 5= strongly agree.

Findings: There were 91 participants in the study. The overall mean score on Fisher's 40 items self-directed learning readiness (SDLR) scale was 153±25, the mean score on self-management subscale was 48± 8.4, and mean score of students on self-control subscale was 58.2 ± 11 while mean score on desire for learning subscale was 47 ±8. About 60 %( n=55) students scored 150 and above which is acceptable level of readiness for SDL on a scale ranging from score 40- 200.

Conclusion: The students showed adequate level of readiness towards SDL which will have encouraging implication on their career and in-service education, furthermore it will help in development of student centered nursing curriculum.

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