evaluation of communication skills of nurses from hospitalized patients' perspective     rostami h [1] * , golchin m [2] , mirzaei a [3]     received: 14 sep, 2011 accepted: 21 nov, 2011     abstract   background & aims : the ability to communicate effectively is one of the main problems of modern societies. quality of services is powerfully related to effective communication skills. studi...

background: educational evaluation is a process which deals with data collection and assessment of academic activities’ progress. in this research, educational evaluation of dentistry school of tehran university of medical sciences, which trains students in undergraduate and residency courses, was studied. methods: this descriptive study was done with a model of educational evaluation in ten st...

a survey of tissue oxygenation differences in intensive care patients with blood transfusion     haghighimoghadamy [1] *, valizadeh ma [2] , feizi a [3]     received: 26 dec, 2011 accepted: 7 mar, 2012     abstract   background & aims : greater than 75% patient that hospitalized in intensive care units has anemia. blood transfusion in icu is not recently and about 40-70% patients in intensive c...

a study on the relationship between duration of breastfeeding and some maternal and neonatal factors    amirshahi m [1] *,shiri s [2] ,salehin sh [3] ,mohamad rezaei zh [4]     received: 19 feb, 2013 accepted: 25 apr, 2013    abstract   background & aims : breastfeeding has many benefits for mother and preterm infant. identify factors affecting breastfeeding, have an effective role in supportin...

PURPOSE Numerous studies have revealed that study skills have a constructive role on the academic performance of students, in addition to educational quality, student' intelligence, and their affective characteristics. This study aims to examine study skills and the factors influencing them among the health sciences students of Urmia University of Medical Sciences in Iran. METHODS This was a ...

the relationship betweennurses' quality of work life and their clinical competency     habibzadeh h [1] *, ghorbanzadek [2] , khalkhali hr [3] , mohamadpor y [4]     received: 3feb, 2012 accepted: 6may, 2012     abstract   background & aims : high quality of work life (qwl) is known as basic prerequisite for empowering human resources in health system. while nurses have a significant posit...

htygod  a survey on the relation beween job characteristics and employees' need for achievement    beikzad j [1] , azimi f [2] , bahrami b [3] , rezaei o [4]     received: 26 des, 2010 accepted: 9 apr, 2011     abstract  background & aims: in order to attain high human resource productivity in organizations, motivating factors should be considered more. some motivational factors determinin...

BACKGROUND Studies in higher education indicated that students' expectation for their educational services are not provided sufficiently, particularly in developing countries that implies on gap between the students perception on current situation and their expectations from educational services. OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to determine the gap between student perception and expectat...