Background: Breast feeding rate in infants is decreasing from 70% at hospital discharge to 32.2% at 6 months. Health professionals have crucial roles in increasing nursing mothers’ self confidence, breastfeeding knowledge and subsequent better patients outcome. The aim of this study was the assessment of participants’ attitude, knowledge and practice after a breastfeeding workshop.   Methods ...

 Introduction: Training evaluation is an integral part of the education systems which helps managers making better decisions about curriculums. This study aims to investigate effectiveness of a workshop on evaluating health promotion programs which was held for health staffs Of Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences. Method: In this quasi experimental study a workshop on “Evaluating...

Background: Blood transfusion faults and its consequences are major concerns of health care systems. This study aimed to determine the effects of workshop and multimedia training methods on nurses’ knowledge and performance about blood transfusion. Methods: It was a controlled quasi-experimental study. Sampling was conducted. Data were collected from 37 participants in three hospit...

Introduction: It is essential to familiarize students with the university environment and let them reach to a level of attitude, knowledge and skill to be able to function actively in a student-centered manner. A workshop was designed for new medical students, in collaboration with senior students and office of vice-chancellor for education. The workshop was held during the third month of study...

One of the most important problems in research and applied fields of production management is a suitable scheduling for different operations. So, there are many approaches for job workshop or job non-workshop scheduling problems. Since job workshop scheduling problems (JSP) belong to NP-Hard class, some metaheuristics methods such as Tabu Search, Simulated Annealing, Genetic Algorithm and Parti...