Aim To investigate the effect of self‐administration of medication programme on medication adherence in cardiovascular inpatients and nurse's satisfaction. Design Randomized clinical trial with parallel‐group design guided by the CONSORT checklist. Methods In this study, sixty cardiovascular inpatients were selected through convenience sampling and then randomly assigned to control and intervention groups, in 2018, Iran. The intervention group took responsibility for consuming their prescribed medication according to the self‐administration of medication programme and the control group took medications routinely. Medication adherence was measured one and two weeks after the discharge via telephonic follow‐up by Morisky Medication Adherence Scale MMAS‐8‐item and nurses' satisfaction by researcher‐made questioner. Result There was a higher medication adherence level in the intervention group rather than the usual care group at the follow‐up. Most nurses in the study environment were very satisfied. Conclusion The self‐administration of medication programme can effectively increase patients' medication adherence and nurses' satisfaction.

Background and Purpose: One of the significant complications of angioplasty is the pain at the catheterization site. These complications will increase the hospitalization duration and hospital costs. The objective of this study is to investigate the combined impact of using sand and ice bags on mitigating pain following percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI). Materials and Methods: In this clinical trial research, we recruited 60 patient candidates for femoral PCI who were referred to Imam Reza Hospital of Mashhad City, Iran, in 2017. The patients were assigned to the control and intervention groups by simple randomization. The statistical analyst was blind to the study. The arterial sheath was removed 4 hours after coronary intervention. Then, a sandbag was placed on the site in control group subjects for up to 4 hours. The ice and sand bags were placed on the site for 15 minutes in the intervention group. Using a numerical pain measurement tool, the pain intensity was recorded at the beginning of the patient’s admission and 3, 6, and 12 hours after the sheath removal. The obtained data were analyzed by descriptive statistics (mean & SD) and inferential statistics (The Chi-Square, Fisher exact, Mann-Whitney, Friedman, and t-tests). Results: The mean score of pain intensity in the sandbag combined with the ice bag group (1.1±1.0) was significantly lower than the sandbag group (2.4±0.9) at the 3 hours after the sheath removal (P<0.001). The mean pain intensity scores at the 6 hours after the sheath removal were 0.7±0.7 in the sandbag combined with the ice bag group and 1.0±0.8 (P=0.407) in the sandbag group. Also, 12 hours later, the pain difference between groups was not significant (0.2±0.4 in the sandbag combined with the ice bag group and 0.4±0.6 in the sandbag group (P=0.482). Conclusion: Although both interventions reduced the patient’s pain, the group with the combination of ice bag and sandbag tolerated less pain 3 hours after removing the sheath. Thus, this method can be applied as an available, effective, and cost-effective technique in angiography units of hospitals for reducing local pain.

Introduction: Nursing practice is highly dependent on head nurses' effectiveness. And one of their most important missions is to maintain the continuing clinical competence of nurses in line with real professional needs .Development of nursing competence will be accomplished during the time when a newly graduated nurse moves towards being a professional nurse. The aim of this study is to determine changes in the clinical competence of beginner nurses in terms of Leadership Competencies of theirs Head Nurses. Methods:The present study is done via cohort method; it was conducted in educational hospitals of Mashhad University of Medical Sciences from 2014 to 2015. 37 nurse managers, 72 beginner nurses were chosen by census method and who in addition to 283 non-beginner nurses participated in this study. In order to assess the superiority of the head nurse, the Ezeukwu leadership empowerment tool was used. The qualifications of the nurses were evaluated in three stages: the beginning of the study, two and four months after the start of the study via self-assessment and peer-assessment using the Mortojja qualitative study questionnaire. The change in beginner nurses, clinical competency were evaluated in terms of their head nurses, leadership competencies. Data were analyzed using SPSS16 by Chi-Square , Fisherexact, ANOVA, Kruscal Wallise, Repeated Measure, Pearson linear correlation and relative risk calculation. Results: Average score of clinical competency of beginner nurses based on their head nurses, leadership competency in second and third evaluation stages have significant difference (P<0/05). The Relative Risk of second stages with CI=0/92-2/13, RR=1/40, P=0/141 was no significant but relative risk of third stages with CI=1/38-2/66, RR=1/92, P<0/001 was significant. Conclusion: There was significant positive relationship between leadership competency of nurses and clinical competency of beginner nurses based on their head nurses, leadership competencies.