Assessment of Information and practices of the nursing staff about the use of body mechanics in nursing care application

Nursing staff exposed to musculoskeletal problems associated with work while providing nursing care because of the erroneous practice of mechanical body, This study aimed to assess the level of nursing staff information about the use of mechanical body and the extent of their use of mechanical body within the nursing activities ,This study was conducted on the author of a sample of 65 nurse in surgery and internal and intensive care at University Hospital Assad where he was interviewed every nurse on the end were evaluated their knowledge by assessing information form was then assess how their use of body mechanics within specific activities in nursing care using the observational checklist , the study concluded that the level of information and practices of nursing staff about mechanical body ranged between poor and average, the study recommended the need to raise the level of information and practices of nursing staff about good mechanical body through training and educational programs and lectures.

Role of Head Nurses in Documenting , Evaluating and Reviewing Staff Performance at Tishreen University Hospital from Nursing staff's viewpoint

The aim of the research was to evaluate the role of the head nurses in documenting, evaluating and reviewing the performance of nursing staff at Tishreen University Hospital from the point of view of nursing staff. Random sample was used , it consisted of 50% of the nursing staff at Tishreen University Hospital during the application of the research there number (300 ) nurses. A developed tool for collecting information was used based on recent research literature, and data were collected and analyzed using SPSS version (20). The most important results were that the evaluation of the role of the head nurses was at moderate level in documenting and evaluating the performance of the nursing staff, while the evaluation of the research sample for the role of the head nurses in reviewing their performance was at a good level.

The Factors that leading to medication errors in Tishreen University Hospital from the point of view of nursing staff

Medication errors are the most common medical errors, which may cause complications in patients, nursing staff are the first one who deal with these errors, so the current descriptive study aim to identify the factors leading to the Medication errors at Tishreen University Hospital from the Point of view of 48 nurses working at internal department by using suitable tool for the study object. The study found that the most important factors that lead to medication errors are the inability to read instructions because of the poor doctor's line, Inability to interpret physician order correctly, the Heavy workload and fatigue, tension and Lack of sleep, and interruption and Distract during Work by someone else, inconvenience during work. The study recommended to establishment of educational courses for the nursing staff in the hospital on the subject of the factors causing the Medication errors and ways to prevent their effects, to inform the doctors and nurses working at hospital about the results of this study, put these results in the consideration of policy makers of the hospital to develop rules and strategies that exceed the impact of these factors to include Patient safety, and similar studies in several hospitals to ascertain the results of the study.