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Background: Nowadays, health care section is one of the most important parts of sustained development in human societies because of having relationship with human health. Achieving this goal needs to have healthy and motivational staff, including nurses. We see nurses in all hospital wards who have been interested in their works when entering the hospital, but feel fatigue after several years and may give up their jobs. This survey has been conducted to study of effective factors on nurses' job motivation in Kerman University of Medical Sciences hospitals.

Material and Methods: This is a cross-sectional survey that studies 232 nurses occupied in Kerman university of medical sciences' hospital inpatient wards who were selected by stratified random sampling using a questionnaire which had 31 questions in 5 area: psychological, educational, financial, administrative and welfare factors. For determining the reliability of questionnaire, we conducted a pilot study and its _Krunbakh was 0.92. we used spss11.5 and Kruskal-Wallis and Mann-Whitney tests to analyze data.

Results: The results show the statistical relationships between welfare factor and hospital type (P=0.012), between psychological factor with sex, job experience and marital status (respectively, p=0/002, p=0/043 and p=0/011). But there weren't any statistical relationships between nurses' age and educational status and the studied area of motivation.

Conclusion: In this study, nurses who have following characteristics, have also better motivation status: occupying in hospital B, being married, being man, having master of science degree, having more than 10 years job experience and being between 30-40 years old.

Background: Waste of health care centers is particularly important due to their major role in spreading various diseases and environmental pollution. Consequently, considering function of  non-hazardous waste devices in hospitals seems vital. This study is aimed to assess function of non-hazardous non-incineration devices of waste in Kerman educational hospitals and Sirjan hospitals

Materials &Methods: This experimental study had been conducted between March and September in year 2013 at the engineering research center of environmental health affiliated with Kerman university of medical sciences. Physical, chemical and biological function of devices was examined. Mechanical function had been examined by monitoring and recording mechanical index through thermometers and registers of devices. Chemical and biological function had been examined by indicator strip and biological indicator strip respectively.

Results: Among hospitals in which the survey had been carried out, 96.3%, 85.3% and, 84% of non- hazardous waste devices had efficient function from mechanical , biological and chemical viewpoints respectively.

Conclusion: As the results show, mentioned waste devices are unable to decontaminate hospital waste from hazardous materials chemically and biologically. Although mechanical process is efficient enough by providing required temperature and time , hospitals waste are not yet defined non-hazardous. Thus the final functional assessment is identified as poor outcome.

Background: Hospital managers' success depends not only on internal of the hospital environment, but also on the external. Considering the importance of the social responsibility of hospitals as an external organizational issue, this study aimed to assess the importance of social responsibility and the implementation status of hospitals.
Materials and Methods: This analytical descriptive study was conducted in Kermanshah educational hospitals in 2016. The study population consisted of management team of each hospital in middle and first-line level, of which 150 were selected using census sampling method. The data gathering tool was a researcher-made questionnaire. Validity and reliability of the instrument was confirmed. Data analysis was performed using SPSS20 software, descriptive and inferential statistics.
Results: The mean score of importance and status of social responsibility implementation were high (86.20 ± 9.98) and moderate (60.62 ± 12.41), respectively. Among the domains, the highest and the least attention were paid to environment (11.65 ± 88.30) and suppliers (13.47 ± 81.48) domains, respectively. The highest level of accountability in patients was (68.87 ± 26/14) and the least was found in organizational processes (14.47 ± 42.02). There was a significant statistically difference in social status according to organizational status and employment type (p <0.05).
Conclusion: The results revealed that the rate of social responsibility of hospitals was moderate. It seems that providing a systematic assessment of managers performance and authorities, functional feedback and using the successful experiences of organizations in the field of social responsibility are necessary.