BACKGROUND Motivational interviewing (M.I.) is an option for modifying an individual's behavior. It is used as an educational method in recent years. The aim of our study was to indicate whether or not education, using lecture alone and lecture with M.I., would affect the performance of nursing personnel regarding their hand hygiene. If so, which of these two methods were most effective for thi...

fire is one of the most dangerous phenomena in the world which yields main damages, healthy and economical, and is thus a major threat to hospitals. since, most of the residents in hospitals are the individuals who cannot rescue themselves in such situations, fire in hospitals is more hazardous than any other public place; hence, it can endanger several sophisticated medical equipment. therefor...

BACKGROUND Recently, the number of ambulance dispatches has been increasing in Japan, and it is therefore difficult for hospitals to accept emergency patients smoothly and appropriately because of the limited hospital capacity. To facilitate the process of requesting patient transport and hospital acceptance, an emergency information system using information technology (IT) has been built and i...

Personnel scheduling involves scheduling people to timeslots and possibly locations. This problem remains the subject of much research interest with a survey in every decade since the 1970’s [2, 8, 4]. Several models including Constraint Satisfaction Problem (CSP) [6], mathematical programming (linear programming, 0-1 integer programming etc.) [3], and different solution methods (exact [3] or h...

introduction: many organizations, especially service oriented ones, relative to their goals and mission, have a special view towards quality phenomena and its management. methods: this paper analyzes medical service quality in one case the internal section of shaheed rahnemoon hospital based on the basis of gap analysis model and servqual technique. a questionnaire was designed and applied to m...

The 5th General Hospital embarked from New York on 19 February 1942. Seven Medical Officers, 28 Nurse Officers and 14 Enlisted Men were placed on various ships of the convoy but the remaining personnel were assigned to a single ship. This vessel, the American Legion, broke down in the Atlantic and subsequently returned to Halifax, Nova Scotia. The detached 7 Medical Officers (including Lt. Col....

PURPOSE To determine the level of correct knowledge about glaucoma and attitudes toward blindness prevention and treatment and how these factors influence self-care practices among hospital personnel. METHODS In this tertiary hospital based, cross-sectional study, a random sample of 119 staff members including 23 physicians (nonophthalmologists) and 96 nursing staff were administered a self-d...

BACKGROUND The 2009 pandemic H1N1 influenza vaccine had lower uptake compared to seasonal influenza vaccine, and most studies examining uptake of H1N1 vaccine focused on hospital-based healthcare personnel (HCP). Determinants of H1N1 vaccine uptake among HCP in all work settings need to be identified so that interventions can be developed for use in encouraging uptake of future pandemic or emer...