many studies have been carried out and many methods have been used for estimating health staff re-quirements in health facilities or system, each have different advantages and disadvantages. differences in the extent to which utilization matches needs in different conditions intensify the limitations of each approach when used in iso-lation. is the utilization-based approach efficient in a situ...

introduction: one of the managers' main concerns in maintaining and preserving human resources is developing job satisfaction. job satisfaction enhances the staff's productivity and efficiency. in this study, staff's job satisfaction in one of the largest training hospitals was investigated. methods and materials: it was a cross – sectional study in which 142 people working in different wards w...

conclusions with regard to significant relation between mental health, job satisfaction, and economic satisfaction, a system for educating and stress reduction counseling should be established to help nurses effectively coping with stress. also, improving the work environment, increasing staff, increasing salary, and decreasing working hours may reduce the nurses' exposure to stressful risk fac...

background: nowadays, quality of patient care is one of the major and important concerns of health care delivery which is extremely dependent on the medical staff. objectives: the purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between quality of work life (qwl) and quality of patient care. methods: this study was a descriptive-analytic study based on correlation which was conducted i...

A physician’s role in health care should be to promote affordable quality care for the patient. The importance of this role was exemplified in the final Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) regulation that repealed the requirement for local hospital boards but – to help offset concerns regarding "the importance of physician input at the governing body level" – inserted a requirement...

background: increasing of chronic patients who need permanent support andstaff who are daily exposed to psychological stress need to hospitals that note to health promotion programs. healthpromoting hospitals (hph)was expressed by the world health organization in the 1990s. so a large numberof hospitals in the world have implemented health promotion programs. but hospitalsin iran not implement ...

background: since anxiety, depression and job satisfaction are considered elements related to mental health, the main objective of the present study is to survey the prison staff on the said elements. methods: the population of the study was all of the officially employed staff of the prison. (104 prisons) 80.7% of the persons who filled the questionnaires up were among the disciplinary force s...

BACKGROUND 'NHSPlus' was conceived as a national agency that would provide occupational health services to organizations, for a fee, without imposing any financial burden on the taxpayer. This self-funding requirement brings into focus the resource implications for such a service and the determination of the charges to be made to external clients. AIM The existing provision of occupational he...

background: social capital causes promoting community members’ participation level as set of norms among community systems. we aimed to determination between perceived social capital with relevant factors among health workers in medical and health network of rey city.   methods: this study was a cross sectional one which assessed determination between social capital and relevant factors among h...

background and objectives: not reporting medication errors by the clinical staff prevent identification of type and frequency of these errors, and thereby developing effective strategies to alleviate the problem. most investigation of barriers to medication error reporting comes from public hospitals. this study aimed to explore the issue from a nurse’s perspective in private hospital. methods:...