Scientific Journal of Rescue Relief
Volume:15 Issue: 4, Winter 2023

The present study was conducted to answer the question "Does emotional intelligence affect the work attitude of hospital nurses.

By reviewing the background of the studies conducted on the three attitudes of job satisfaction, organizational commitment and the turnover intention, and to examine the effect of the research variables on each other by using the descriptive-analytical research method and collecting data through a survey, 175 nurses who were selected by random sampling method were examined. Data analysis was done by structural equation modeling method using Smart PLS3 software.

The findings showed that adding emotional intelligence criteria can improve job satisfaction, improve performance, reduce the turnover intention and increase organizational commitment by helping nurses to reduce negative emotions and increase positive emotions.

In this research, the mediating role of emotions and job performance was examined, and according to the results, state positive affect had a significant moderating role in the relationship between job satisfaction and all dimensions of emotional intelligence among nurses.

The current research aimed to analyze the strategies, platforms, and obstacles facing the Relief and Rescue Organization in benefiting from education in the age of knowledge.

This applied qualitative research was conducted based on the grounded theory. Participants included academic and Relief and Rescue Organization experts. A total of 20 cases were studied and selected by purposive non-random sampling using semi-structured interviews and theoretical saturation principle. In the theory analysis process, MAXQDA-2022 software was used.

Based on the research findings, managerial factors, as well as technological and behavioral development, were identified as strategies. Moreover, platforms were behavioral, environmental, and social factors and obstacles were recognized as technological education and support.

As evidenced by the obtained results, in order to improve its quality level in the age of knowledge, Relief and Rescue Organization .hould establish a close relationship with education sector and remove the obstacles ahead.

The present study was conducted in order to compare the organizational indicators of the Iranian Red Crescent Society (IRCS) with other National Societies. To this end, the number of volunteers, income and costs of the IRCS were compared with other National Societies in Africa, America, Asia, Europe, Central Asia, and Middle East & North Africa (MENA).

In this descriptive-comparative study, data were collected from the data bank and online reporting system of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC). Finally, data were analyzed in Excel- 2016 and SPSS -24 software.

Based on the findings, from 2016 to 2020, compared to other National Societies, the average of IRCS volunteers has always been higher. The income of the IRCS is higher compared to that of National Societies in Africa, Asia, the Pacific, and MENA and lower compared to the National Societies in America, Europe, and Central Asia. In terms of cost, IRCS incurred higher costs than African and MENA National Societies and lower costs compared to National Societies of American, Asia and the Pacific, Europe, and Central Asia.

According to the results, it can be concluded that although the income and costs of the IRCS are lower compared to most of the National Societies, the number of volunteers is more, which shows the human capital of IRCS and is necessary to use this potential appropriately.

Considering the importance and significance of organizational virtue in promoting the performance of organizations, the present study was conducted with the aim of establishing a model of organizational virtue in the Red Crescent Society of Tehran province.

This qualitative research is applied in terms of objective, which was conducted using the Granded Theory approach. The study population includes academic members and experts of the RCS of Tehran province. 15 experts were selected to conduct interviews using purposive sampling method and based on theoretical saturation principle. Data was collected by using semi-structured interview and data analysis has been done in three stages of open, axial and selective coding.

The results show that organizational virtue in the RCS of Tehran province is influenced by five dimensions which are effective factors. Considering the facilitating factors of organizational virtue as contextual conditions; the factors that inhibit organizational virtue as intervening conditions; components and indicators of organizational virtue as approaches will promote the organizational virtue in the RCS of Tehran province as much as possible.

The proposed model for organizational virtue in the RCS shows that five dimensions: optimism, empathy, trust, responsible leadership and ethics as the effective factors in promoting organizational virtue in the Society that considering contextual conditions, intervening conditions, actions and reactions will increase organizational virtue in the Society

The quality of education and accreditation of universities, institutions, and Educational centers has always been of great concern to many groups, including managers, officials, students, parents, and employers, in the past hundred years. The current research aimed to design the accreditation model of applied science higher education institutions.

This qualitative research was conducted using qualitative content analysis. Its statistical population includes articles, documents, and all the key informants of applied science higher education institutions in Tehran. A total of 21 key informants were selected using the purposive and snowball sampling method and maximum diversity technique. The data were collected by semi-structured interview, observation, review of documents and scientific texts and analyzed by using MAXQDA-2022 software and weighting of factors, criteria, and indicators with the Shannon entropy method and prioritization with RANK function in Excel.

The results demonstrated that after weighting and prioritizing, the final research model included 33 factors, 101 criteria, and 704 indicators. There are 27 input factors, 4 process factors, 1 output factor and 1 outcome factor.

The current accreditation model was prepared in accordance with the conditions of applied science higher education institutions using domestic and international experiences with a systemic approach (input, process, output, and outcome) in the form of factors, criteria, and indicators and can be used by University of Applied Science and Technology.

In order to increase the capacity to deal with earthquake hazards, increasing urban resilience has become a basic priority for most governments. Based on this, the current research was written with the aim of measuring the physical resilience of the peripheral part of the 20th district of Tehran against earthquakes.

The research method is applied in terms of purpose and analytical-exploratory in nature, which was used to analyze information using the AHP technique in Expert Choice software and the opinion of 25 experts.

 The findings showed that district 20 of Tehran city will face a serious crisis due to having many worn-out and marginalized structures, short-term residential units, old buildings, high population density, small area of residential land and narrow roads.

According to the obtained results, about 47% of the fabric of district 20 is highly vulnerable to the earthquake crisis. Therefore, appropriate policymaking to manage earthquake crisis, especially in strengthening buildings and land use planning in this area, is an inevitable necessity.

Promoting social responsibility in a relief organization can lead to the development of people's participation in its operations. This study has been conducted with the aim of sociological analysis of the strategies to increase the social responsibility in the Iranian Red Crescent Society (IRCS) with an emphasis on the development of people’s participation in disasters.

In this qualitative study, the sample population included experts and rescuers of the IRCS. The sampling method was purposeful until theoretical saturation was reached and therefore 22 people were interviewed. The data collected by semi-structured interview and analyzed in three stages of open, axial, and selective coding. The validity of the research was also examined through triangulation.

Based on data analysis, strategies consist of 9 main categories, 51 subcategories and 230 primary codes. In general, after analyzing the data obtained from the research, a paradigm model of strategies for increasing the social responsibility of the IRCS was designed with emphasis on people's participation in disasters.

In order to increase people’s participation during disasters in the IRCS, it is necessary to educate and promote a humanitarian participatory culture, create an organizational identity, increase the Society’s responsibility towards public participants, apply merit management, attention to the implementation of organizational justice and attention to social accountability processes by the IRCS must be considered.

Due to the limited current knowledge about the appropriate trainings for the improvement of competence in military nurses, it seems necessary to use the processes of creating and sharing knowledge to fill the gap between the current knowledge and the required one. Therefore, this research has searched for the model of organizational knowledge creation in military nursing education using a meta-synthesis method.

The research was conducted using the meta-synthesis method (thematic analysis), and the findings were systematically reviewed based on the seven-step model of Sandelowski, Barroso and Voils (2007). For this purpose, 348 articles were reviewed, and finally, 33 articles were confirmed by referring to valid and accessible documents of the sites.

The network of extracted themes was identified as an eight-component model including team-oriented approach, individual factors, managerial factors, technological factors, communication factors, organizational policy-making, implementation of knowledge creation process, and organizational culture.

The implementation of knowledge creation leads to the promotion of military nursing education and, as a result, to the improvement of military nurses performance. To this end, factors such as culture building, using the knowledge of experienced nurses, past successful experiences and updating systems with new information technology tools are effective in creating knowledge. This approach can be an influential factor in advancing the scientific and practical goals of the commanders regarding the creation of knowledge and reducing the waste of time and financial resources.