background musculoskeletal disorders (msds) are common problems among nurses and are associated with many underlying occupational factors. objectives the aim of the study was to evaluate msds in nurses regarding psychosocial stress status at work. patients and methods in this cross-sectional study, all nurses who worked at semnan city hospitals in 2011 were enrolled. musculoskeletal symptoms an...

background and objective: this study was undertaken to assess the levels of job satisfaction and its correlates among nurses and doctors in aminu kano teaching hospital (akth); and to compare the levels of job satisfaction between nurses and doctors.   methods: in a cross-sectional study, 350 nurses and doctors in aminu kano teaching hospital were surveyed. socio-demographic data, employment ch...

background: in recent decades, patient safety has become a high priority health system issue, due to the high potential of occurring adverse events in health facilities. objectives: this study was aimed to survey patient safety culture in 2 iranian educational hospitals. materials and methods: in a descriptive, cross-sectional survey, a hospital survey on patient safety culture, was used in two...

background the main purpose of this study was to explore the status of occupational stress among hospital nurses in isfahan, iran. it also aimed to examine the relationship between nurses’ occupational stress and their intention to leave the hospital.   methods the study employed a cross-sectional research design. a validated questionnaire was used to collect data from 296 nurses. respondents w...

introduction: most of iran’s health budget goes to hospitals as the largest care providing unit in the community. more than 60% of hospital resources are allocated for staffing. one of the problems facing hospitals especially in critical and sensitive parts such as in emergency room is appropriate staffing. this research was designed to investigate and improve nursing staffing and human resourc...

introduction: nowadays, the widespread distribution of hospital information systems (his) in healthcare institutions requires professional evaluation to assess the practical usefulness of these applications. nursing staff are the largest group of staff in a hospital and play an important role in the adoption and evaluation of hiss. methods: this was a descriptive, analytic, cross-sectional stud...

nutritional care is an important part of medical care of patients and plays a key role in improvement, prevention and control of malnutrition in hospitals. the current study aimed to determine the nutrition knowledge level of doctors, nurses and nutritionists in some teaching hospitals in tehran in 2008. in a cross-sectional study a total of 198 samples including 28 nutritionists, 81 nurses and...

musculoskeletal disorders (wmsds) are of serious concern to many organizations, including health care centres. low back pain (lbp) with no clinical cause is common in nurses. this study aimed to assess the prevalence rate of lbp in nurses. this descriptive, cross-sectional study was carried out on a population of 351 nurses from educational hospitals of yazd university of medical sciences; yazd...

Background: Although all jobs can be stressful, occupational stress is an important issue in jobs that deal with human health. Evidence indicates that nursing is a stressful occupation. Objective: This research evaluated factors affecting occupational stress and strategies for coping with it. Methods: This cross-sectional descriptiv...

background: the purpose of this research is to establish the ability of employees by work ability index (wai), physical work capacity (pwc), and finding the correlation between them . establishing the pwc index with attention to wai values for the purpose of saving in costs and time of pwc measurements is another aim of this project. methods: the present research is an analytic cross-sectional ...