Life change units [LCU] rating as stressors in Iranian hospitals' nurses

Healthcare workers suffer from work-related or occupational stress. This can lead to severe distress, burnout or physical illness, and finally to decrease quality of work life and services provision. Nurses must be aware of retential stressors, because they add to the cumulative effect of other stressful events. Holmes and Rahe both found a relationship between life change unit as stressors and health changes. This research reported here aims to measure the life change units as stressors among Iranian Hospitals Nurses by LCU rating. A cross-sectional, descriptive and analytical study was conducted among 389 nurses working in 15 teaching hospitals in Tehran, Iran. The respondents were asked to select each of 54 events that cause stress ranked in order of their life change units developed by Holmes and Rahe as stress scale. Before beginning the main study, the reliability and coincidental validity was performed. All data were analyzed using SPSS for windows version 18, t-test, Anova statistical methods. Approximately, half of the nurses associated major mortgage, foreclosure of mortgage or loan. More than 50% of the Iranian nurses had 150-300 and more than 300 LCU rating which had the chance to expose to extremely serious risk to health. Iranian hospitals nurses suffer from stress that caused by Life Change Units organizational factors such as change in the financial state, change in the work environment and major mortgage. We recommend to Iranian nursing policy-makers to choose strategies to help nurses' cope effectively with workplace stressors. Nursing managers and / or nursing management should develop strategies to address and improve the quality of working conditions for nurses in the hospitals. Providing educational and career prospects can contribute to decrease nurses' occupational stress level, the maintaining their work ability

[Study of hospitals manager's personality and management career compatibility]

Compatibility between hospitals manager's career and their personality could assured job performance improvement. Personality tests are used to determine management hospital's manager's type of personality compatible with their career. This research is aimed to study hospital managers personality types with their management career at one of the largest University of Medical Sciences in Iran. A cross-sectional, descriptive study was conducted among 210 of the hospital departments managers by James Barrett's personality type questionnaire compatible with their management career. Before the beginning of the main survey, the face and coincidental validity and reliability of questionnaire and also test-retest technic was performed and reliability coefficient was high. The data was collected by SPSS software and analyzed by Chi-Square and Kruskal-Wallis test. Most of the paraclinical managers were retired and emotional, and most of the hospital administrators were realistic and cautions. We demonstrated that hospital administrators were more compatible with their career. But, it seems, most of the studied manager's type of personality were not compatible with their careers. Although, compatibility testing is not the only procedure to select the candidates of management career, but we suggest this test and other recruitment tests are conducted to select the candidates for management career in all hospitals of Iran