Iranian Journal of Medical Ethics and History of Medicine

Today, the role of spiritual leaders is to stimulate employees by employing a spiritual perspective and creating cultural backgrounds based on human values to raise capable employees. On the other hand, professional ethics is one of the variables that has a significant impact on individual and group activities and outcomes of the organization. The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between spiritual leadership and professional ethics with organizational performance and quality of work life with the intermediate role of organizational learning among employees of Imam Reza Hospital in Urmia. The design of this research was a descriptive-correlational cross-sectional design model of structural equations. The statistical population of this research included 759 employees, 240 of them were selected by random sampling method. For data collection, standard questionnaires were used. Pearson Coefficient and Structural Equation Model Finding were used to analyze and examine the assumptions and the relation between the variants. The results show that there is a significant relationship between spiritual leadership variables and Professional Ethics with organizational performance and quality of life of employees (P<0.01, r=0.42, r=0.51), (P<0.01, r=0.36, r=0.75). Furthermore, the results showed that the intermediate role of organizational learning in the association between spiritual leadership and professional ethics with organizational performance and quality of work life (β = 0.17, β = 0.18, β = 0.16, β = 0.17) ) is confirmed. According to the findings, it can be concluded that paying attention to spiritual leadership and professional ethics can improve the organizational performance and quality of work life, as well as enhance organizational learning among the staff of Imam Reza Hospital.

The purpose of this research is to investigate association between social influence, productivity, and performance among researchers of medical ethics field.  This research was done using common methods in scientometric studies with the method of co-author and network analysis. The statistical population of the study consists of all articles published in journals in the field of medical ethics, which were indexed in the database of web of science in the period of 1978-2017. A total of 14,231 articles and 20,845 researchers were surveyed. Data analysis was done using UciNet and SPSS softwares. Research findings based on the social influence that calculated for each researcher. The study of relationship between social influence and performance showed that there is positive correlation between performance and degree centrality. However, there is a negative correlation between performance and closeness and betweenness centrality. Also, the relation between social influence and productivity showed that there is a positive and significant correlation between social influence and productivity indices. The results showed that the researcher who have a good status in terms of performance, have a high social impact. In addition, researchers who have a high degree centrality are in a favorable position in terms of productivity and performance.

The necessity of governing ethics is desirable in the work environments and is universally accepted. Ethical performance is based on the ethical criteria that employees are expected to adhere to. The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship between ethical educational needs and ethical efficiency in health workers of Sistan province. This is a descriptive correlational study. Data of 377 healthcare providers of Sistan rural areas were collected through a multi-stage cluster sampling method.  Information was collected with a valid and reliable questionnaire. The data were analyzed by SPSS 19 software using descriptive correlation, independent t-test, one-way ANOVA, and Pearson correlation coefficient. The results showed mean score of the need for ethical education of health care providers was relatively high (with respect to the maximum of the score), and the ethical performance of health care workers was low. There was also a significant and inverse relationship between score of ethical educational needs and ethical performance of health care providers (P >0.05). Based on the results, there was a significant and inverse relationship between ethical educational needs and ethical performance of health care providers. Providers who had a higher level of information and less educational needs had higher ethical performance. So, implementation of educational programs based on ethical educational needs is recommended for increasing ethical performance of health care providers as they are first-line practitioners who interact with people and health care clients.

With the onset of the COVID-19 pandemics, a huge flood of people rushed to medical centers, which severely affected working conditions of the medical staff. In this article, we are going to evaluate the reaction of health care workers to the rise of traffic, social gatherings, non-observance of mask use protocols and physical distance which lead to an increasing number of infected persons and death rate. Here, we address the impact of community’s indifference on medical staff which seems to decrease the quality of medical staff practice gradually