Compare the importance and performance of patient education services in the view ‎point of nurses and patients

‎ Patient education has many advantages such as:Increasing clients satisfaction,improving life ‎quality,decreasing the side effect of disease and treatment expenditure also decreasing the ‎readmission of patients.The main objective of this study was to compare the importance and ‎performance of patient education services in the view point of nurses and patients. ‎ In this descriptive-crosssectional study, all nurses of Fateme Zahra hospital of Najafabad ‎‎(n=90) and 120 patients were selected using convenience sampling method were recruited to ‎the study. Data were gathered using self-designed questionnares.The collected data were ‎analyzed by SPSS software using descriptive and analytical statistics(man-whitney u).‎ ‎ Findings showed that there was significant differences between view point of nurses and ‎patients about importance and performance of patient education services (p