Long-term care (LTC) facilities face many challenges, including retention of qualified and caring staff and maintaining high-quality care. In 2008, the Institute of Medicine (IOM)(1) reported widespread consensus that there are insufficient numbers of competent licensed and direct care staff to manage, supervise, and deliver high-quality care to the elderly population. Although examples of exce...

AIM The aim of this exploratory study was to determine whether the level of nursing teamwork is correlated to call light answering time in acute care hospital patient care units. BACKGROUND Teamwork has been shown to improve productivity. In this study, we examine the relationship between unit call light response time as a measure of productivity and the level of teamwork on the unit. METHO...

The productivity of the most attractive terms of applications in various fields, particularly management. In this regard, human resources productivity plays a key role in any organization.  This study aimed to investigate the relationship between work ethics and productivity of human resources management, time management .Time do research hypotheses using questionnaire distributed among m...

Indoor environmental quality (IEQ) of buildings plays an important role in affecting building occupants’ comfort, health and well-being. However, there is limited understanding the critical IEQ factors that affect work productivity university office buildings. By surveying 204 people (72 staff members 132 postgraduate students) a tertiary education institution New Zealand, this research aimed t...

a suitable organization climate not only can be affective on improving individuals’ stimulation, motivation and participation in decision-making, and increase their creativity and innovation, but also it can be seen as a source of enhancing their productivity. therefore, this research has been done to investigate the role of organizational climate on increasing the staffs’ productivity in techn...

as the numbers of university students are increasing, common use of academic & public libraries can have very useful function in responding the students' information needs. therefore the connection of such libraries can decrease the costs and increase the productivity of library resources, software's, equipments, and staff. in the present paper, referring to some successful relevant p...

The purposed-the main purpose of this study is to look at the development of efficiency and productivity in the military hospital sector of Tehran province, by applying a nonparametric method. Design/methodology/approach- The study applied the nonparametric method to assess the efficiency of military hospitals service in Iran, Tehran, over the period 2013-2016. Utilizing non-parametric me...

BACKGROUND Nurses, as the largest human resource element of health care systems, have a major role in providing ongoing, high-quality care to patients. Productivity is a significant indicator of professional development within any professional group, including nurses. The human resource element has been identified as the most important factor affecting productivity. This research aimed to explo...