Nurses' knowledge, attitude, and practice regarding osteoporosis prevention and its correlation with their nutritional behaviors.

Background: Nurses have good opportunities to communicate with osteoporotic patients and the public as well as convey osteoporosis prevention education to them. Therefore, nurses require specific knowledge, attitude, practice (KAP), and desirable nutritional behaviors for osteoporosis prevention and treatment strategies. Little is known about the KAP for osteoporosis prevention and nutritional behaviors among nurses in Iran.

Education as an effective strategy to promote nutritional knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors in street children.

Background: Lack of nutritional knowledge and ineffective attitudes can complicate the problems faced by this group of street children and have significant effects on their behaviors. This study aimed to examine the effect of nutrition education on nutritional knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors of street children in Kerman in 2021.

Methods: This experimental study was conducted on 70 street children supported by Aftab Children Support Center in Kerman in 2021.

Improving the informatics competency of critical care nurses: results of an interventional study in the southeast of Iran.

Background: Nursing informatics (NI) along with growth and development of health information technology (HIT) is becoming a fundamental part of all domains of nursing practice especially in critical care settings. Nurses are expected to equip with NI competency for providing patient-centered evidence-based care. Therefore, it is important and necessary to improve nurses' NI competency through educational programs for effective using of HIT.

The Effectiveness of a Time Management Workshop on Job Stress of Nurses Working in Emergency Departments: An Experimental Study.

Introduction: One of the main risk factors for poor health is a high level of job stress. Time management skills can greatly reduce job stress. The current study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of a one-time management training workshop on job stress among nurses working in emergency departments.

Nurses' perceptions of systems thinking and safe nursing care: A cross-sectional study.

Aim: To assess nurses' perceptions of systems thinking, safe nursing care and the correlation between them.

Background: Systems thinking and safe nursing care are the key elements of quality improvement approaches, such as accreditation and patient safety programmes. However, these two variables have not been well studied in different health care settings.

The effect of anger management skills training on anger status of the people with HIV.

Purpose: This study investigated the effect of anger management skills training on the anger status of people with HIV.

Design And Methods: This interventional study was conducted on 60 people with HIV. The intervention group was trained on anger management skills.

Psychosocial Needs of the Families With Hospitalized Organ Transplant Patients in an Educational Hospital in Iran.

Nurses are required to understand and meet the physiological needs of the family members of the patients hospitalized in transplant wards of the hospitals. Considering the importance of this issue, this study aimed to investigate the psychosocial needs of the families with an organ transplant patient. The study employed a cross-sectional design and was conducted in Afzalipour Educational Hospital affiliated to the Kerman University of Medical Sciences in 2018.

The psychosocial needs and quality of life of family caregivers of patients with organ transplant.

Background: Families of patients with organ transplants experience many problems, both with the onset of illness and during the hospitalisation of their relative for an organ transplant. The healthcare providers try their best to give high-quality care to patients. However, they neglect quality of life and psychosocial needs of family caregivers.

Improving the professional competency of psychiatric nurses: Results of a stress inoculation training program.

It is essential to conduct cognitive-behavioral interventions on nurses' professional competency. The present study aimed to evaluate the impact of a stress inoculation training (SIT) on professional competency of psychiatric nurses. This was an experimental study, in which 70 psychiatric nurses were allocated to two intervention and control groups (35 in each group) using cluster random design.

Nurses' professional competency and organizational commitment: Is it important for human resource management?

Background: Professional competency is a fundamental concept in nursing, which has a direct relationship with quality improvement of patient care and public health. Organizational commitment as a kind of affective attachment or sense of loyalty to the organization is an effective factor for professional competency.

Objective: This study was conducted to evaluate the nurses´ professional competency and their organizational commitment as well as the relationship between these two concepts.