ABSTRACT Introduction: Nurses are one of the most important elements of health care system that have been in a stressful situation during the Covid-19 pandemic. The aim of this study was to investigate the prevalence and sources of nurses' occupational stressand identify related factors during this period. Methods and Materials: This cross-sectional study was performed on 392 nurses of Rasht ...

  The results of several studies show the relationship between the ratio of nurses/patients with quality of care and patient outcomes (1-3). This means that less the ratio, more expected adverse outcomes for patients. These findings have led some institutions to establish mandated nurse-patient ratios (4). Establishing standard ratios could potentially improve patients' outcomes such as patient...

Introduction: Infants can not express their pain, therefore, their pain should be evaluated by valid and reliable tools. The purpose of this study was to determine the knowledge, attitude and performance of nurses working in neonatal units on pain assessment and measurement in neonates. Methods: This descriptive and analytic study performed during March-August 2011 in neonatal units and NICU in...

Due to the development of societies and nursing sciences, complexity of the ethical situations that nurses encounter is increasing. Moral sensitivity is the first component of ethical behavior, but most of the nurses encounter many barriers in acquiring it. This study was an attempt to determine barriers to ethical sensitivity in nurses’ viewpoints in educational hospitals of Sabzevar in 2012.T...

  Background and Objectives: Burnout is a syndrome usually found in health providers such as nurses and hospital employees. According to Maslach, burnout is a reflective physical and emotional exhaustion , depersonalization and personal accomplishment. Therefore, assessment of its related factors such as age, work duration, type of wards, and work schedule are very important.   Mat...

Background and purpose: Intensive care unit (ICU) nurses play an important role in non-pharmacological prevention of ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP). The aim of this study was to assess the knowledge of nurses in ICU about non-pharmacological prevention of ventilator-associated pneumonia. Materials and methods: In a descriptive cross-sectional study, 120 ICU nurses were studied in teac...

  Background & Aims : A number of studies have been done on the topic of nurses’ burnout. However social and cultural context of caring institutes and the characteristics of nurses working in these centers would add to the knowledge about this organizational behavior. Accordingly this study aims at identifying the frequency and intensity of nurses’ burnout and its relationship with nurses’ char...