Modern Care Journal
Volume:15 Issue: 3, Jul 2018

One of the significant concepts considered by organizations is job engagement, which has been able to cover variables, namely, job engagement, motivation, and commitment. The present study aimed at investigating the effect of Luthans's psychological program on job engagement among nursing staff.
In the present semi-experimental study, 64 nursing staff working at 22nd of Bahman Hospital in Khaf, during year 2017, with the inclusion criteria, were selected through convenience sampling and randomly assigned to the experimental group (N = 32) and the control group (N = 32). The training program of Luthans’s Psychological Capital was presented in ten 2-hour sessions (two sessions a week) for the experimental group and the control group did not receive any intervention. The instruments for data collection included a demographic form and work engagement scale, developed by Schaufeli and Salanova (2001). Data were analyzed using SPSS-22 software, independent t-test, pairwise t-test, Mann-Whitney U, Chi-square, Fisher exact test, and two-way analysis of variance (ANOVA).
No significant difference was found between the mean score of general job engagement and its components before the intervention in the staff of the experimental and control groups (P > 0.05). In the staff of the experimental group, after the intervention, the mean score of general job engagement and its components was significantly higher than before (P Based on the results of the present study, it is recommended to lay the groundwork for promoting job engagement and thus increase nurses’ job engagement, using the psychological capital training program for nurses

Bacteriocin - producing Enterococci have potential probiotic value. In this study, Enterococci possessing stable antibacterial activities were isolated from yoghurts of Bangladesh.

Bacteria were isolated on MRS medium and genotyped based on partial 16S rDNA sequencing. Cultured supernatants were assessed for antibacterial activity by agar - well diffusion method before and after heat, proteinase K, and β - mercaptoethanol treatments.

In this study, 18 Enterococci bacteria were isolated from 10 different yoghurt samples of Bangladesh. Partial 16S rDNA genotyping suggested that these bacteria were either E. faecalis or E. faecium, or E. durans. Phylogenetic analysis suggested that these strains are closely related to other dairy Enterococci and distantly related to non - dairy Enterococci. Four isolates showed potent antibacterial activity against seven food - borne pathogens in vitro. The antibacterial property can withstand temperature as high as 90 ºC for an hour, 1 µg/mL proteinase K, and 2.5% (v/v) β - mercaptoethanol treatments as well.

These isolated yoghurt Enterococci have some probiotic value because of their stable antibacterial activities and further improvement of these Enterococci is necessary to improve yoghurt quality

Background A nurses’ job satisfaction is a significant factor behind their motivation for quality care delivery. The aim of this study was to examine the relationship of communication skills with job satisfaction among hospital nursing staff.
In this descriptive-correlation study, 162 nursing staff were recruited through stratified random sampling from teaching hospitals in Birjand, Iran. They were asked to complete a demographic questionnaire, job descriptive index, and burton’s communication skills questionnaire. The SPSS program (v. 18.0) was employed to analyze the data via the analysis of variance, the independent-sample t, the Tukey’s tests, Pearson correlation analysis, and the stepwise multiple linear regression analysis. The level of significance was set at less than 0.05.
The mean scores of participants’ communication skills and job satisfaction were 63.83 ± 7.56 (out of a 18 - 90 range) and 3.25 ± 0.53 (out of a 1 - 5 range). Participants’ communication skills mean score had a significant correlation with their job satisfaction mean score (r = 0.36; P Hospital nursing staff’s communication skills can significantly affect their job satisfaction. In-service training programs are recommended for improving nursing staff’s communication skills

Today, nursing is getting more complex and specialized and nursing management is of great significance. Nursing managers play an essential role in organizing, providing services, and enhancing the quality of nursing care. For this reason, this study aimed at determining the framework, dimensions, and requirements for selection, training, and recruitment of nursing managers in selected hospitals of different countries to provide a review and comparison of experiences.
A mixed-method design was used to provide a model for selection, recruitment, and training of nursing managers in Iran, 2017. With a comparative study, the variables were identified. A data extraction form was used to collect data and content analysis was used to analyze data in the comparative phase. Finally, the initial questionnaire was compiled and approved by the experts. The final questionnaire was then given to 250 individuals and data were analyzed using factor analysis in Amos software.
50 main items were extracted based on comparative findings in the three main dimensions: selection, training, and recruitment. 17 items were related to selection, 12 to training, and 21 to recruitment. Selection based on human skills of qualified people, teaching specialized principles of nursing management in the nursing university curriculum, and the existence of a planning committee for job analysis had the most impact on the selection, training, and recruitment of nursing managers in hospitals.
Professional associations under the supervision of the ministry of health and paying attention to human skills of qualified individuals can play an important role in selecting nursing managers. Therefore, these associations should be used more. Recruitment standards and criteria in the field of nursing management requires more information clarification and factors such as education, organization, and institutionalization should be discussed and localized according to the conditions of different countries

Pharmacological knowledge learning is of great importance to nursing students. The views of nursing graduates in this regard are acknowledged because this will lead to identifying the strengths and weaknesses of educational programs, resources, and trainers.
Therefore, the aim of this study was to investigate the factors affecting pharmaceutical care learning in clinical education from the viewpoint of nursing students in 2016 - 2017.
A descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted on nursing students (n = 120) recruited through a census method. The data collection tool was a self-administered questionnaire consisting of two parts. The first part was to gather demographic information including age, sex, semester, history of student work, and written score of the pharmacology course, and the second part was related to the areas affecting the learning process including professional competence of the instructor (11 items), teaching ability of the instructor (13 items), interpersonal communications of the instructor (5 items), clinical teaching environment (11 items), course plan (3 items), and learner characteristics (8 items). The collected data from 100 students were analyzed by SPSS16 software using descriptive statistics.
47 (47%) male students participated in the study and most of the participants (59%) were aged 20 - 21 years. From the viewpoint of the students, the variables related to the areas of the clinical instructor, learner characteristics, and educational environment were the first to third factors affecting the pharmacological care learning, in sequence.
Paying attention to the characteristics of the instructor, adaptation of clinical environment, characteristics and motivators of the students in gaining experience, and understanding the importance and necessity of learning the knowledge and practice of medicines can facilitate and strengthen the pharmaceutical care learning

Hepatitis B is associated with different physical and psychological complications. This study sought to evaluate the effects of cognitive behavioral therapy on the quality of life among patients with hepatitis B.
In this quasi-experimental study, 60 patients with hepatitis B were conveniently recruited from a private infectious disease clinic in Birjand, Iran. The patients were randomly allocated to either a control (n = 30) or an intervention (n = 30) group. Patients in the intervention group received cognitive behavioral therapy in eight 45-minute sessions while their counterparts received no cognitive behavioral therapy. All patients completed the 36-item Short Form Survey both before and after the intervention. The SPSS software (v. 15.0) was used to analyze the data by running the paired-sample t, independent-sample t, Wilcoxon signed-rank, and Mann-Whitney U test at a significance level of less than 0.05.
In the intervention group, the scores of the social functioning and general health domains of quality of life significantly decreased while the score of the emotional well-being domain significantly increased after the intervention (P 0.05). Moreover, in the control group, the scores of quality of life and its social functioning and general health domains significantly decreased (P 0.05). The groups did not significantly differ from each other respecting the pretest-posttest mean scores of the quality of life and its domains (P > 0.05).
This study suggests that cognitive behavioral therapy has no significant effect on the quality of life but significantly improves emotional well-being among patients with hepatitis B

Policy-makers in the Ministry of Health Care and Medical Education need to have knowledge concerning high-risk behaviors among medical students in order to have positive changes in the educational system of universities of medical sciences.
To enquire into the prevalence of high risk behaviors among medical students.
A cross-sectional study was conducted on medical students in one of the largest medical universities in Tehran, Iran. A total of 275 medical students participated in the study. They filled out a self-developed questionnaire that covered both demographic characteristics and items on eight main risk domains including safety, violence, depressed mood, physical activity, nutrition, smoking, alcohol consumption, and substance abuse.
A total of 275 students (55.3% male, mean age: 23.7 ± 4.3 years) took part in the study. Approximately, 38% of the subjects reported less than 30 minutes of low intensity physical activity during the preceding week. Obesity and overweight were seen in 24.4% of the participants. Around 8% of the students had body mass index (BMI) values below 18 kg/m2. Daily smoking during the past month was reported by 10.5%. A total of 29 students (10.2%) mentioned drinking alcohol during the past month. Sense of depression and hopelessness were reported by 26.6% of students. A total of 5.5% had seriously considered committing suicide, with 3.6% who had actually attempted, with some doing it more than once.
In this study, physical inactivity, obesity/overweight, and depressed mood were more frequent. Smoking, alcohol consumption, and drug abuse were more prevalent among male students

Diagnosing a heterogeneous disorder like schizophrenia is still based on patients’ report of their subjective experiences. Recently, the utilization of innovative, computer-based technologies such as virtual reality (VR) to objectify these experiences has gained experts’ attention. VR provides a multidimensional, interactive environment, in which the formation of paranoid thoughts in different settings, as well as patients’ reaction to virtual characters, can be assessed. VR also offers a milieu to evaluate other aspects of the disorder such as cognitive deficits and negative symptoms. Trying to objectify the diagnosis not only can help specialists to have a more goal-directed management approach but also benefits patients with receiving better care. Herein, we briefly report the new advances of applying VR in the evaluation and diagnosis of schizophrenia, a novel approach that in turn can accelerate the rehabilitation and the treatment of the disorder