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Volume 2, Issue 3 (12-2012)
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Introduction: Job satisfaction of nurses hasalwaysbeenconcernedin hospitals. It influences the quality of services offered by the nurses. Many nurses leave their job mainly due to the lack ofjob satisfaction.Different factors including the health and safety at work influencejob satisfaction. Thisstudy aimed to evaluate the occupational safety and health status of Khorram Abad’s Shohada hospital and to study its relationship with job satisfaction of nurses there.
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Material and Method: This descriptive-correlation study was carried out in Khorram Abad’s Shohada hospital. All (239)nurses working in 18wards of the hospital were participated in the study. The required data including individual and job characteristics, occupational safety and healthstatus as well as job satisfaction in terms of hospital nurses were collected using standard questionnaire. Collected data was analyzed with SPSS.19, using Kruskal-Wallis,Mann-Whitney and Spearman correlation tests.
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Result: The results showed that the occupational safety and health status of the hospital in 4 different studied areas were in a low level (with an average point of 23.2±5.3) from the participant’s point of view. The job satisfaction of nurses was also low (with an average point of 31.8±5.4). The safety and occupational health status of the hospital had a significant relationship with the nurse’s job satisfaction (P=0.001).
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Conclusion: The job satisfaction of the nurses as well as the occupational safety and health status of the hospital need to be promoted.
Arsalan Yousef Zade, Adel Mazloumi, Milad Abbasi, Arash Akbar Zade ,
Volume 6, Issue 2 (6-2016)
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Introduction: High level of workload and its consequent cognitive failures are among factors which impact nurses’ behavior, performance, and efficiency. This study aimed to investigate the relationship between nurses’ cognitive failures and perceived workload.
Material and Method: This cross-sectional and descriptive-analytical study was carried out among 150 male and female nurses, working in different units of Emam Khomeini and Vali-e-Asr hospitals in Tehran in 2013. NASA task load index (NASA-TlX) and Cognitive Failure Questionnaire (CFQ) were used to assess workload and cognitive failures, respectively. Data were analyzed using Pearson Correlation, Independent sample t-test, and one-way ANOVA statistical tests with SPSS software version 20.
Result: Pearson and Spearman correlation coefficients test results showed a significant relationship between nurses’ mental workload and their memory for names (P-value<0.001). Moreover, there was significant association between physical workload and memory, attention and total cognitive failures (CFQ total) (P-value<0.05). Perceived frustration mong nurses was significantly correlated with memory, attention, motor functions and total cognitive failures (P-value<0.05).
Conclusion: The results showed a high level of workload among study nurses. Furthermore, the relationships between some dimensions of mental workload and cognitive failures were confirmed, so that an increase in workload dimension can lead to more cognitive failures while doing task.
Delnia Jahani, Faranak Jabbarzadeh Tabrizi, Abbas Dadashzadeh, Parvin Sarbakhsh, Mina Hosseinzadeh,
Volume 12, Issue 3 (9-2022)
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Introduction: Nurses of the emergency department experience stressful events that affect their mental health and reduce the quality of their work life. Career adaptability is considered a personal capability that enables employees to adapt to changes and avoid the negative consequences of job mismatch. This study was conducted to study career adaptability and its correlation with the quality of work life in the emergency department.
Material and Methods: This descriptive-correlational study was conducted on 104 nurses in the emergency department of teaching–therapeutic hospitals in Tabriz who were selected using random stratified sampling. Data was collected using a demographic checklist, the Career Adapt-Abilities Scale (CAAS) by Savickas, and the Quality of Nursing Work Life (QNWL) scale by Brooks & Anderson. Data were analyzed in SPSS using descriptive statistics (frequency, mean and standard deviation) and inferential statistics (independent t-test, one-way analysis of variance, Pearson’s correlation coefficient, and linear regression analysis).
Results: The total scores of career adaptability and the quality of nursing work life were 88.55±25.01 from the achievable range of 24-120 and 141.15±22.56 from the achievable range of 42-252, respectively, which were moderate. In this study, 85.6% of nurses enjoyed a moderate quality of work life. Furthermore, the results of Pearson’s correlation indicated a significant positive correlation between career adaptability and scopes with the quality of work life score (p=0.05). Regression analysis results indicated that career adaptability significantly predicts the quality of nursing work life (p=0.000).
Conclusion: In this study, nurses experienced moderate career adaptability and quality of work life. Given the above factors, and considering adaptability as a variable predicting quality of work life, it is suggested to take measures to increase career adaptability in nurses through training or consulting interventions to improve the quality of nursing work life.
Fereshteh Araghian Mojarad, Akram Snagoo, Leila Joybari,
Volume 12, Issue 4 (12-2022)
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Introduction: Workplace violence against nurses is regarded as a continuing and prevalent problem across the world. The purpose of this study was to explain oncology nurses’ experiences with workplace violence.
Material and Methods: The present study was fulfilled using qualitative content analysis in 2017 based on purposive sampling method. To this end, semi-structured interviews were performed with 23 oncology nurses from two teaching hospitals located in two neighboring provinces in the North of Iran. Then, the interviews were recorded, transcribed, encoded, classified, and subsequently analyzed according to qualitative content analysis developed by Graneheim and Lundman. The criteria proposed by Guba and Lincoln were further utilized to strengthen this research study.
Results: Two main themes and four sub-themes were elicited from data analysis including “imbalance in care supply-demand” and “conflict resolution efforts” with sub-themes of “demand for special care”, “supply of task- focused care”, “aggressive behaviors”, as well as “conflict prevention”.
Conclusion: The study findings revealed that failure to meet patients’ care needs could bring about aggression and demonstration of violent behaviors. Given the understanding of patients’ conditions, the nurses also tried to resolve the conflicts mostly via forgiveness and negligence techniques.
