exposure to blood borne pathogens is considered as a common occupational hazard among health care workers all around the world. the aim of the current study was to investigate the factors associated with needle stick and sharp injuries among health care workers of an academic hospital. the current cross-sectional study of health care workers a teaching hospital designed based on a census sampli...

in today’s advanced world resulting from the improvement of technology, societies tend to encounter a large number of problems and accidents. as we know, university’s security personnel are classified as shift workers and are exposed to health disturbing factors. the aim of this study was investigation of shift work disorders among security personnel of the hospitals affiliated to shiraz univer...

awareness and preparedness for prevention of crisis plays an important role in minimizing its impacts and fatalities. this study suggests how to enhance the efficiency of crisis management through applying a resilience engineering (re) approach. the aim of this study was to design a questionnaire to assess crisis management based on re approach. in this descriptive survey, four principles of re...

in recent years noise has been well known as an environmental pollution. particularly its effects will be more serious in some environments including hospitals which patients need a calm and peaceful condition. this study aims to evaluate hospitals noise pollution level. this study is a cross-sectional study. noise measurements were made in all hospital wards in a workday and weekend from 8 to ...

background wastewater effluent in hospitals has been increasing during the recent decades due to developments in medical services and products. objectives this study aimed to investigate the qualitative parameters of effluent wastewater in hospitals affiliated to babol university of medical sciences (bums). materials and methods four hospitals were included and their wastewater effluent was stu...

this survey was aimed to investigate factors affecting nurse retention in hospitals of tehran university of medical sciences. the study setting was 14 general and special hospitals in tehran. the samples were recruited from nurses employed in different wards of these hospitals.

introduction: commitment of staff is intangible asset that can highly provide better services. since providing healthcare services is only possible through efficient human resources, this study evaluated the association between person-organization fit and organizational commitment of staff in university hospitals of tehran university of medical sciences, iran. methods: this was a descriptive an...

introduction: the aim of this study is to examine the hospital manager’s job in order to identify their educational needs in esfahan in 1382. to do so, first, we tried to become familiar with the current situation by using the experiences of hospital managers in esfahan and then we made an attempt to determine the optimal situation by asking the views of management specialists. finally, the two...

background: health worker motivation has the potential to have a large impact on health system performance, and this depends on some factors. the purpose of this study was to determine the factors affecting this motivation. methods: from winter 2013 to spring 2014, 1046 employees and physicians (439 males and 607 females) with a mean age of 36 and 37.2 years in men and women, respectively were ...

introduction: the improvement of technology has increased noise levels in hospital wards to higher than international standard levels (35-45 db). higher noise levels than the maximum level result in patient’s instability and dissatisfaction. moreover, it will have serious negative effects on the staff’s health and the quality of their services. the purpose of this survey is to analyze the level...