Assessment of medical students' knowledge regarding radiation associated risk and its protection: finding from a cross-sectional study.

Objective: The current study assessed the knowledge of the medical students regarding the nature of radiation, associated risks, and protective measures.

Method: A cross-sectional study was conducted among international students enrolled in different medical colleges/universities in Xian, PR China. A self-developed and self-reported questionnaire was used for the current study.

Nurses' Empathetic Behaviors: The Direct and Indirect Effect of Their Spiritual Orientation.

Spirituality and its role in nurses' performance has gained much attention from the nursing researchers. But there is still some ambiguity about its role in improving the nurses' empathetic behaviors and factors that mediate this relation. To fill these research gaps, a sample of 247 Muslim nurses in a hospital at Shiraz, Iran, were selected and studied.