Background & Aims: Medication errors are common incidences in the nursing profession, which could lead to the increased length of hospital stay and treatment costs and occasionally severe damage to the patients or even mortality. The Many studies have investigated medication errors, with a few considering medication errors as a severe issue in the clinical setting. Other findings have confirmed that the cooperation of medical personnel and medical system could influence the rate of medication errors. Considering the essential role of nurses in all the steps of medication preparation to administration, limited studies have evaluated nurses' viewpoint regarding the influential factors in the incidences of medical malpractices, and mostly the viewpoints of emergency ward or ICU nurses have been investigated. The present study aimed to determine the influential factors in the medication errors by the nurses of the internal wards of the teaching hospitals affiliated to Iran University of Medical Sciences. Materials & Methods: This descriptive study was conducted on 241 nurses employed in the internal wards of the teaching hospitals affiliated to Iran University of Medical Sciences in Tehran, Iran during June-September 2019. Data were collected using a demographic questionnaire and the questionnaire of nurses' views on medication errors designed by Bijani et al. (2013), which were completed by the nurses. Demographic data included age, gender, marital status, number of children, education level, interest in the nursing profession, nursing profession work experience (years), occupation status, working shift schedule, economic status, clinical workplace, workplace changes in recent months, and number of the off days in the past month. The questionnaire of nurses' views on the influential factors in medication errors has been developed by Bijani et al. (2013) with 22 items in three domains of the factors related to nurses in medication errors (11 items), factors related to the ward in medication errors (seven items), and factors related to the nursing management in medication errors (four items). The scoring system for each item is based on the significance of each factor on a four-point Likert scale (Very Low, Low, Moderate, and High), and each option is assigned a score within the range of 1-4, respectively. The mean score of each domain was calculated, with the low mean scores indicating the low significance of the domain in the incidence of medication errors and the high mean scores indicating the high significance of the domain in the viewpoint of the nurses. The questionnaire was completed by the nurses in a self-report manner and delivered to the researcher after one week. Data analysis was performed in SPSS version 16 using statistical tests. Results: According to the results, exhaustion due to heavy workload (mean score: 3.11 ± 0.85) was the most common cause of medication errors in the dimension of medication errors by nurses. In the dimension of hospital ward, heavy workload (mean score: 3.09 ± 0.85) was the m...

Background: Colorectal Cancer (CRC) is a serious health problem, and its early detection is crucial for treatment and reducing mortality. Beliefs related to colorectal cancer are an affecting factor in a person's decision about the CRC Program. The current study aimed at assessing the knowledge, attitude, and practice of healthcare providers regarding colorectal cancer screening based on the Health Belief Model (HBM) in Hamedan City, Iran, in 2018.Methods: This was a descriptive cross-sectional study. A total of 330 healthcare workers employed in comprehensive centers of urban and rural services in Hamedan were recruited by the census method. The required data were collected by demographic characteristics form and HBM scale of CRC. To analyze the obtained data, frequency, mean, standard deviation, Independent Samples t-test, Analysis of Variance (ANOVA), linear regression, and logistic regression analyses were used in SPSS. Results:The achieved results suggested that the mean knowledge score of the study subjects was 10.19; it was higher than that of 7.5 in the structure of HBM. The mean score of perceived sensitivity, perceived severity, perceived benefits, and perceived self-efficacy was higher than that of the perceived tool, and the barriers were less. Test performance was satisfactory in people aged >50 years (68.2%), and more than 90% of individuals recommended screening to their clients. They received the most information during training sessions. Conclusion:Although the level of knowledge of CRC was higher than the average, more education is required for people to receive regarding HBM. On-job training classes should be more precise. Furthermore, considering the favorable performance of the sample, integrating the CRC screening program into the healthcare program has provided desirable results and could be a starting point for other programs.