OBJECTIVE To examine published evidence on intravenous admixture preparation errors (IAPEs) in healthcare settings. METHODS Searches were conducted in three electronic databases (January 2005 to April 2017). Publications reporting rates of IAPEs and error types were reviewed and categorised into the following groups: component errors, dose/calculation errors, aseptic technique errors and comp...

background and objectives:job burnout is a major source of healthcare human resources inefficiency with severe negative impact on patient care, physical-psychological health of staff, and healthcare costs. psychological empowerment is a relatively new concept showing promise in boosting different aspect of human resources management. in this study, we pursued the question of whether psychologic...

background: regarding the close and continuous interaction of infertility staff with hopeless infertile couples and in the contrary the atmosphere of happiness especially in obstetric wards make a sense that considering anxiety and depression it would be a difference between these two wards. objective: the objective of this study is the comparison of the rate of depression and anxiety between t...

introduction: depression as a disorder is relatively common in all societies several factors are involved in depression development, that shift work is one of these factors. this study compared the frequency of depression in different shifts of nurses in hospitals of yazd university of medical sciences. materials & methods: this study is a descriptive analytical study. based on statistical meth...

BACKGROUND Since 2001, state and local health departments in the United States (US) have accelerated efforts to prepare for high-impact public health emergencies. One component of these activities has been the development and conduct of exercise programs to assess capabilities, train staff and build relationships. This paper summarizes lessons learned from tabletop exercises about public health...

introduction: today, many organizations attempt to fully develop in gradual evolution of their processes. pcmm is one of the models which focus on improving organizational human capabilities. this model is applied to continually increase people's ability to attract, develop, motivate, organize and retain the skills. in this study, pcmm was used to investigate organizational maturity needs in me...

birth attendants are among the most important persons who  can provide appropriate mother-infant relationship,immediately after birth followed by nurses who continue the task in the postpartum ward.on june 1995,using a data collection from prepared by the research group,staff behaviour toward childbearing mothers and their newborn infants(n=215) was observed in the delivery room and postpartum ...

conclusion generally, the studied hospitals were faced with a lack of nursing manpower and distribution of manpower was not appropriate. proper planning and management of manpower in accordance with the lack of personnel, compensates and achieves the standards required for hospital’s nursing manpower and this would lead to an increase in the efficiency of hospitals activities and can provide sa...