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Background: The first step of developing a proper model for delivering nursing care in hospitals will be identifying relevant components to apply a model. The aim of this study was identify relevant components to apply nursing care models in Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences training hospitals.
Materials & Methods: This study was a qualitative research which was conducted by using content analysis approach. Participants were 6 faculty members and nurse managers of Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences selected by purposeful sampling frame. Data gathered via semi-structured interviews and analyzed by thematic analysis.
Results: In this study, extracted themes included caring based on client satisfaction, nurses' knowledge and skills, importance of cooperative care, quantity and expertise of nurses, efficient supervision on nurses' performance, and strategies of health system in higher level. These themes were categorized in three dimensions including structure, process and outcome.
Conclusion: Findings of this study would be used for developing a nursing care models in Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences hospitals in future research.

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Background: Identification of development needs is a first important step in a systematic management development effort. This study aimed at assessing management development needs from the viewpoint of middle managers of hospitals affiliated to Tehran University of Medical Sciences. Material and Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted in the hospitals affiliated to Tehran University of Medical Sciences. The population study was 227 of middle managers employed in 16 hospitals. Data were collected using a 42-items questionnaire which its reliability and validity was confirmed. Data were analyzed using main components analysis in software SPSS17. Results: designing and innovation indicator among managerial roles, human skills indicators in managerial skills, psychological abilities among managerial talents, social trust in personal characteristics, comprehensive thinking indicator in philosophic mindedness and leadership in managerial knowledge components were the most important from the perspective of the middle managers Conclusion: managers play the specific managerial roles in order to perform their managerial tasks. They need to develop administrative skills, abilities, knowledge, personality and philosophic mindedness to play the best managerial roles.

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Background: Today, due to the diversity of organizational structure and culture, the diversity is one of the basic principle in crisis management.Crisis management consists of six components including flexibility, inclusion, trust, risk perception, adaptability and equity.This study aimed at investigating the managers' perception about components of crisis management in hospitals affiliated to Tehran and Iran University of Medical Sciences.

Materials and Methods: This study was a cross-sectional one. A questionnaire was used to collect data using five likert scale. Validity and reliability of questionnaire assessed by content validity and Cronbach's alpha coefficient. Sixty six questionnaire were collected. Data analysis was performed by SPSS software using ANOVA and independent t-test.

Results: The highest and the lowest level of managers' perception were inclusion and equity(3.19 ± 0.51) and adaptability(2.73 ± 0.75), respectively. There was a statistical significant difference between crisis management components with gender and job type. The highest level of importance was regarded to inclusion and mutual trust between personnel and managers, and  the lowest level was related to flexibility in hospital crisis management .

Conclusion: Employees in diverse positions have different definitions of adaptability in crisis. It is necessary to perform further research and educate hospital manager’s duties. 

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Background and purpose: This research was conducted with the aim of determining the relationship between the implementation of the strategic plan and the performance of the hospital. The importance of knowing the factors affecting the implementation of the strategic plan and its identification leads to better planning and the correct implementation of the strategic planning process.

Methods: The current research is a descriptive analytical research, in terms of cross-sectional time and practical results, and it was carried out in 2018. The research population is all the people who have played a role in the drafting of the strategic plan. This research has used the census, which filled the questionnaire in a high percentage of the statistical population. After collecting the data, the information was entered into the software and SPSS version 16 software was used to analyze the data.

Findings: The relationship between the implementation of the strategic plan and the performance of the hospital is direct and strong. Among all parts of the strategic plan, customer management plays a more important role than other parts of the strategic plan in improving the performance of the hospital.

Conclusion: In order to have optimal performance in a hospital, we need detailed strategic planning, and this plan must be implemented carefully and properly monitored so that it can bring us optimal performance.