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  Background and Objective : Human resources are the most valuable sources of an organization. Nurses, because of special nature of their job, are influenced by various stressors affecting on their job satisfaction and organizational commitment. The aim of this study was to compare Nurses’ job satisfaction and their organizational commitment in intensive care and general wards of Golestan University of medical sciences.

  Material and Methods: In this descriptive & analytical study, 389 Nurses were selected via census sampling in 1387. The instrument were job satisfaction questionnaire reliabled by alpha chronbach and meyer organizational commitment scale.To analyze the data, we used Pearson correlation coefficient, independent test, regression and one way anova in spss 16 soft ware environment.

  Results: Participants were between 22-55 years. Their mean age was 32.6 ± 7.4 and most of them (72.7%) were female. Intensive care and emergency wards’ Nurses had the lowest organizational commitment and job satisfaction, respectively. There was a significant relationship between job satisfaction and organizational commitment in studied wards (P<0.05).

Conclusion : Whereas job satisfaction can predict organizational commitment of Nurses, it is essential for administrators to consider factors such as salary, participation in decision making, job security, and job enrichment and so on to promote quality of services

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  Background and Objective : Patients’ satisfaction is an important criterion which can be a good scale to measure and evaluate medical services quality, and can give us some information about fulfillment of patients’ needs expectations and wishes .We conducted this study to investigate the patients’ satisfaction from medical and nursing services.

  Material and Methods: In this descriptive and cross- sectional study, the data was collected by a questionnaire including two sections of demographic data and satisfaction level from medical and Nursing services.The subjects are 200 patients selected by easy sampling method, at the time of discharge from hospital. Satisfaction level was measured by likert scale. The data was analyzed using descriptive statistics and chi-square.

  Results: The findings show that the patients are satisfied (41%), almost satisfied (21.5%) and unsatisfied (37.5%) from medical services. About satisfaction from nursing services, 57% of the patients were satisfied, 16.5% of them almost and 26.5% rarely satisfied. There was significant relation between variables such as sex, age, education degree and having insurance and satisfaction from medical and nursing services.

  Conclusion : The highest percentage of unsatisfied patients was related to lack of giving information by physicians about the disease and Nursing interventions measures. Interaction behavior between medical staff and patient has an effective impact on patients’ recovery and increase patients’ satisfaction therefore, the necessary measures should be taken to improve communication between patient and physician.

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  Background and Objective : Nosocomial infection is a major cause of mortality and morbidity in hospitalized patient. Some experts believe that nurses have a major role in infection control. We aimed to examine and compare the knowledge and practice of prevention and control of Nosocomial infection among nurses and nursing students in Amol.

  Material and Methods : This cross­-sectional study was conducted on 190 nurses working in state hospitals of Amol (n­=100) and internship nursing students (n=90) in 2010.­We collected the data by a questionnaire including personal characteristics, knowledge and practice part, and analyzed, using statistical software SPSS-16,by descriptive statistics and independent samples t­-test, chi-square and Pearson correlation.

  Results: The mean score of nurses' knowledge and practice, respectively,­ was 6.91±1.06 and 8.00±1.33 in the range of 0-10 that is significantly more than students' knowledge and practice 6.29±1.73 and 7.56 ± 7.56­(P­=0.­009). More Than half of the participants (59% of students and 53.4% nurses) have a moderate level of knowledge. There is significant difference between nurses' knowledge and students' (P­=0­.­003).

  Conclusion: The results suggest that students’ knowledge and performance is weaker than those of nurses. And they both need to receive Documented and managed training programs related to prevention and control of nosocomial infection during their educational period and work.

  Keywords: ­Knowledge, Performance, ­­Nosocomial infection, Nurse, Nursing student, Prevention

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Background and Objective: Iran is a disaster-prone country and occurrence of disasters is inevitable. Early warning system is one of the most aspects in hospital preparedness. This research aim to determine the effect of early warning system on hospital readiness.

Material and Methods: This research was conducted in Motahari hospital in Tehran city, 2014. To perform early warning system based on the national program of readiness for disaster, we had frequent sessions with some health experts and the members of disaster committee. The level of   readiness was evaluated by WHO's checklist before.

Results: Following intervention, hospital preparedness rate increased by 25 scores demonstrating significant raise from moderate to high.

Conclusion: In regard with average level of readiness in Motahari hospital and its significant increase after using early warning system, we recommend applying this system for improving the level of hospital disaster preparedness.