[Nurses' organizational behavior and their quality of documentation]

Introduction: numerous factors affect on quality of nursing documentation. Continuous evaluation and identifying factors affecting documentation have a significant role on improving the quality of documentation. This study aimed at Nurses' organizational behavior and their quality of documentation in teaching hospitals of Hormozgan University of Medical Sciences

Method: this is a descriptive cross-sectional study conducted in 2013. The study population were nurses in teaching hospitals of Hormozgan University of Medical Sciences. From a total of 552 nurses, 215 nurses were selected using random sampling. Three standard questionnaires and three Self-made check list were used for data collection. Validity of the tools was measured using comments of professors and experts and reliability of the questionnaire was measured using Cranach's alpha. Collected data were analyzed using SPSS version 16. Pearson, ANOVA, and Tstudent were used to assess relationship between variables

Results: levels of nursing education and type of employment stipulated in the employment contract had significant effect on the score of documentation [P<0.01]. In addition, hospitals and various departments had significant differences in the documentation scores. From the other side, job satisfaction, social capital and organizational citizenship behavior have significant positive correlation with the total score of nursing documentation [P<0.05]

Conclusion: nurses organizational behavior including job satisfaction, social capital, and organizational citizenship behavior, can have an impact on the quality of their documentation. Therefore, hospital managers and supervisors can ensure quality of nursing documentation following improving organizational behavior

[ relationship between social capital and organizational citizenship behavior among teaching hospitals staff at Hormozgan Univercity of Medical Sciences]

Introduction: Organizational citizenship behavior [OCB] and social capital constitute Organizational behavior, which have immense effect on performance and productivity. This study was conducted to analyze the relationship between social capital and [OCB] among employees at teaching hospitals in Hormozgan University of Medical Scinces

Methods: This cross-sectional study was performed in 2011. Standardized questionnaires of Podsakoff and Nahapeit were used to gather data on OCB and social capital, respectively. The validity of questionnaires was approved and its reliability was measured by calculating Cronbach's alpha which was shown to be 0.72, 0.84, respectively. Sampling was done through classified random sampling method. Data analysis was performed using SPSS 19 software and to analyze the relationship between above mentioned variables ANOVA and Pearson tests were used

Results: The mean value of organizational citizenship behavior and social capital were found to be 3.1 +/- 0.53 and 2.7 +/- 0.58, respectively. A statistically significant relationship between OCB and social capital was observed. In addition, There was significant relationship between demographic variables such as education, organizational position, shift work and gender with social capital and OCB [P<0.01]

Conclusion: Considering the importance of organizational citizenship behavior for Institutions, to improve efficiency it is suggested that administrators of hospitals and health care institutes adopt policies to enhance these two issues among staff