Function of nurses and other staff to minimize hospital waste in selected hospitals in Isfahan

Medical waste [MW] is all waste materials generated at health care facilities. MW naturally is hazardous for environment and subsequently for human. Waste minimization [WM] is the latest alternative for risk reduction. All hospital staff generally and nurses specially can play an active role through education and the implementation of measures to reduce medical wastage and their environmental effects. This study is aimed to compare nurses and other staff functions in selected hospitals in Isfahan about waste minimization strategies. This is a descriptive analytical study. The study tool was a researcher -designed questionnaire in five area of waste minimization based on WHO recommendation. There were 90 nurses and other staff from randomized selected public and private hospitals of Isfahan as the sample of this research. This study was done in 2009. Data were analyzed by t-test using SPSS16. Nurses mean score of WM performance was 58.16 [12], and others was 58.56 [12.18] [of max 100]. There was no significant difference between nurses and others mean score of WM performance according to t-test. There was not significant difference between WM performances of two studied groups in public and private hospitals based on t-test. Comparing between two studied groups mean scores by waste minimization areas indicated that nurses have done significantly better in source reduction area and other staffs have acted better in waste segregation [P < 0.05]. All of hospital staff specially, nurses have an important role in qualified waste management practice of hospitals. Totally mean score of WM performance in hospitals [nurses and other] was average. With regard to other countries activities, this result is disappointing. So, it is necessary to plan educational programs for hospital staff, especially nurses.

[ study of relationship between the learning organization and organizational commitment among managers in educational hospitals of Isfahan university of medical sciences]

Old methods of administrating cannot cover the rapid changes today. These changes redounded new organizations like learning organizations to be formed. The purpose of this research is to study of relationship between the Learning Organization and Organizational Commitment among hospital managers. This is a descriptive analytic survey. The population of study was 210 nursing managers of 9 educational hospitals. Data gathering was done via learning organizational and organizational commitment questionnaires. Data analysis was done in SPSS software. The mean score of learning organizational was 59.5 +/- 18.5 among nursing mangers, and the mean score of organizational commitment was 60.8 +/- 10.8. In general there was a significant relationship between learning organizational and organizational commitment based on Pearson test. In today's changing environment of very rapid changes seen in different areas of science and technology and the increasing complexity and dynamics of environmental factors, only organizations can survive and remain capable of growth that active adaptation [dynamic equilibrium]. This aim can be fulfilled just in learning organizations

[Cost-benefit analysis of Isfahan university of medical sciences database in 2007]

Increasing costs in almost all of the governments and organizations persuade them to analysis their services in financial and economic dimensions. Because of increasing unnecessary costs, community is limited to achieve social effective goals for health services. We surveyed cost accounting of Isfahan University of Medical Sciences database to assess its cost benefit. Current research was descriptive and retrospective. Data collection was carried out through a checklist considering human resource expenditure, consuming material expenditure, capital material depreciation expenditure and Purchase fee. Then the average of expenditure was compared with the amount of article use in each database [Proquest, Blackwell, Springer, Ovid, and Elsevier]. Among databases, Elsevier had the most and Springer had the least cost benefit. Manager of informatics system must use management techniques, such as cost analysis method, to make the best decision to decrease the costs