Background and aimsMental disorders are of diseases that modern societies encounter with and among them depression is one of the most common disorder especially in young people as prayer and blessing has positive effects on different aspects of life, this study was done to determine relationship between attitude and practice toward prayer and depression in students of Kurdistan university of medical sciences.Subject and methodsThis was a descriptive - analytic study. The study population consisted of 400 students of Kurdistan university of medical sciences that were selected though stratified random sampling method. The data were collected by 2 questionnaires, one that contained questions related to attitude and practice toward prayer and another was beck test.Results37.5% has depression (mild to severe). 71% had positive attitude and 29.5% had good practice toward prayer. There was significant relations ship between attitude toward prayer and depression (p = 0/03). So that depression average ranking was lower in those who had positive attitude toward prayer.With higher mean scores of practice toward prayer depression rates were lower but these. Differences were not significant.ConclusionAs depression rate is high in these students and because of positive effect of prayer on decreasing prevalence and severity of depression so not only exploring for risk factors of depression in university students is necessary but also reinforcing and promoting doing prayer and religious duties: it is recommended to pay more attention to student's mental health.

BackgroundClinical judgment of nurses to conduct medication orders is based on patient assessment, medication knowledge, observation, and interpretation of the data collected. This process is influenced by many factors.ObjectiveThis study aims to explore nurses’ experience about facilitating factors in medication administration based on clinical judgment of nurses.MethodsThis qualitative study was part of an approved project research of the Iranian National Institute of Health Research, which was conducted in Kurdistan University of Medical Sciences in 2015. Based on purposive sampling of 18 participants, 26 open and semistructured interviews were conducted. Based on conventional content analysis method and using MAXQDA2010, coding and categorizing the data were applied. During the analysis, data collection continued until saturation.ResultsAnalysis of the data led to the emergence of five themes, including the implementation of evidence-based medication orders, situational-based medication orders, medication orders in critical condition, educational interventions in medication orders, and supporting the nurses as facilitator of the implementation of medicinal orders based on clinical judgment of nurses.ConclusionIn response to constraints such as the routines, clinical crisis and lack of evidence in medicinal orders, nurses used following ways to fix these barriers and facilitators. Combining evidence such as clinical guidelines, physician’s views based on patients, and clinical conditions proved the best facilitator. It is recommended that, using these results, a perfect background for the proper administration of medication orders by nurses should be provided.