MANY NURSES WHO graduated in the past year and are seeking employment in a hospital are facing a shortage of open positions due to the economic downturn. Because hospitals are seeing less employee turnover, the nursing workforce has stabilized. Also, some experienced nurses may be delaying retirement because their retirement funds or their homes lost value, and some employed nurses may be worki...

Results: Out of 290 hospital cleaning staff, 240 (82.7%, 122 male, 118 female, aged 36.2±8.7) were included in the study. When evaluated according to their educational status, 55.4% had graduated from primary school. Fifty-four percent of the staff had been working in the hospital for more than three years. Mean knowledge level was 18.15±3.97 (maximum 24). Their knowledge level was not associat...

Civility constitutes an important part of the organizational climate perceived by employees. Also structural and psychological empowerment lead to positive outcomes for work environments, leading to positive outcomes such as increased organizational commitment for health care workers, especially newly graduated nurses. The aim of this study to determine effect of workplace civility climate, str...

introduction. today continuous medical education is under consideration for graduated medical students as a necessity in today's world and has had its importance about one decade in our country (iran) . methods. recognition of opinions in various occupational actions of post graduated persons is very important in attention for reevaluation the program of continuous teaching in post graduat...

The graduated optimization approach, also known as the continuation method, is a popular heuristic to solving non-convex problems that has received renewed interest over the last decade. Despite being popular, very little is known in terms of its theoretical convergence analysis. In this paper we describe a new first-order algorithm based on graduated optimization and analyze its performance. W...