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Background and Aim: The Effectiveness and success of an organization depends on two factors one is the employees’ Performances and the other is the level of understanding between managers and employees in prioritize of different job motivators. The aim of this study was to determine factors that affect staffs’ performances in Qazvin teaching hospitals based on the Herzberg’s theory.

Materials and Methods: This research was a descriptive study. To achieve the main aim of this study, one hundred and ten employees were selected through a multi- stage sampling method .In this study, for data collection a self-report questionnaire was used. The five-point Likert scale was used to determine the degree of importance of any hygiene and multinational's factors affecting the performance of the employees.

Results: Among hygiene factors, the prevailing place was for Job security with an average 4/39 and then followed by a suitable salary with an average 4/38 of 5 scores. Among multinational's factors, job responsibility with an average 4/38 and job interest with an average 4/38 were placed as the most important factors in employees’ performance. %70/8 employees mentioned that two factors of suitable salary and job security are the most important obstacle for improvement of employee’s performance.

Conclusion : The data of this study reveals that, Attention and Planning in providing

 proper salary and job security as hygiene factors and sense of responsibility and success as motivational factors, may play a more effective role in improving employees’ performance than any other factors.

Background and Aim: Nurses’ main tasks include the provision of healthcare services at the highest levels of quality and quantity standards, and based on the findings of scientific research. The aim of the present study is to identify and determine the barriers of evidence-based practice among nurses of Qazvin hospitals, in Iran, at 2013.

Materials and Methods: The present cross-sectional research was a descriptive- analytic study conducted among 260 nurses practicing in six hospitals of Qazvin in 2013. The barriers scale questionnaire developed by Funk, et al. was used to examine the four dimensions of evidence-based practice (EBP) barriers including adopter, organization, innovation and communication characteristics. To analyze the data, descriptive and analytic statistics were used.

Results: The mean score of EBP barriers among subjects was 3.07 out of 4. Among the barriers, "organization" and "adopter" dimensions had the highest and lowest mean scores, respectively. There was no significant statistical relationship between gender and EBP performance, But a significant relationship was observed between organizational dimension with age, employment type and work experience.

Conclusion: Since “organization” was found to be the main  barrier to  the use of research in nursing performance, policy-makers and administrators should pay attention to the use of research in performance, the establishment of a research culture in organization, the creation of appropriate infrastructures, and the allocation of sufficient time to the nursing personnel to have access to evidences.