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Introduction: Nurses play various roles and have various responsibilities in helping patients or other members of the family. This study aimed at assessing Nursing staffs point of view of Roles and activities at hospitals affiliated to the Tehran university of Medical sciences, 2007
Methods: Using descriptive analytic study method, 102 male and female members of the Nursing staff, systematic randomly chosen. The data were collected using a questionnaire consisting demographic characteristics and related to the clinical roles all statistics were computed by the SPSS v.16 descriptive and inferential statistics
Results: The results showed that; Ability to clinical procedures 1% poor, 5.9% Average, 46.1% Good, 47.1% excellent, and 22.5% of nurses be lives the most important reason for not doing clinical role are fatigue and hard working. There were significant correlations between demographic characteristic [age, sex, unit home].and the other were not any significant correlations between demographic characteristic of participants
Conclusion: The findings suggested that competence of the Nurses in performing most of roles was sufficient In addition some factors such as frustration, lack of on the job training, insufficient number of personnel. Lack of proper facilities, and insufficient income , have a great impact on nurses and the removal of obstacles in the performance of their duties