Introduction: Public health policies place significant emphasis on the prescription process, and ongoing efforts are required to support the development of optimal and adequate prescription practices in teaching hospitals.This study aims to identify advantages and challenges of electronic prescription in the teaching hospitals affiliated with Ardabil University of Medical Sciences.Methods: The content analysis approach was used to conduct the current qualitative investigation in 2023.Four beneficiaries (physicians, pharmacy technicians, patients, and insurance experts) participated in this study to analyze the benefits and challenges of electronic prescription.These beneficiaries were purposefully engaged in the interviews.MAXQDA2020 software was used for data analysis.Results: Participants' perspectives indicate that the most important benefits are reducing medication errors by eliminating the illegibility of medication orders and enhancing the security and confidentiality of information.The intermittent interruptions, slow internet speed, incomplete infrastructure, difficulty in searching for drugs, lack of warnings regarding drug interactions, and inadequate connection with clinical decision support systems are also the main challenges of this system. Conclusion:The study demonstrates that the implementation of the electronic prescribing system is essential for enhancing the healthcare system.It is necessary to effectively introduce the benefits of this system and provide the required training in various formats for proper usage by the users.Continuous communication with users and receiving their feedback will lead to the successful implementation of electronic prescription and help eliminate the negative aspects of the system.

Introduction:A human library is an event where people borrow a living book, or a human book, rather than a traditional book, allowing them to gain insights from their experiences or expertise.The purpose of this scoping review was to identify how to implement and evaluate a human library in the health sector.Methods: In this scoping review, various Persian and English databases were searched using relevant keywords, yielding 2570 articles.After an initial review and screening based on the inclusion and exclusion criteria, 44 articles were selected for analysis.The findings were synthesized narratively in tables. Results:The implementation of a human library includes two main components: "preparations and planning", and "human book management".These components include 12 subcategories, such as advertising strategies, obtaining licenses, and criteria for selecting and borrowing human books.The evaluation of a human library includes three components: "evaluation objective", "evaluation tool", and "evaluation challenges", along with 22 subcategories, such as assessing the quality of human books, ensuring confidentiality in assessment, and assessment of program suitability. Conclusion:This study identified strategies for implementing and evaluating a human library in the health sector.This study also provides a framework for health policymakers and librarians to implement a human health library.

Introduction:The migration of nurses results in a shortage of human resources within healthcare systems, a decline in the quality of health services, an increased workload for the remaining staff, and diminished access to effective healthcare services for vulnerable populations.This study aimed to identify strategies for managing nurse migration.Methods: In this scoping review, relevant Persian and English studies on the management of nurse migration were searched in databases such as PubMed, Web of Science, Wiley Online Library, Springer, Science Direct, Scopus, Magiran, SID, and the Google Scholar search engine from January 2000 to October 2023, utilizing appropriate keywords.Ultimately, 89 documents were selected and analyzed using MAXQDA software and thematic analysis.Results: A total of 42 strategies for managing nurse migration were identified, categorized into two groups: strategies for countries of origin and those for destination countries.The most significant strategies pertaining to countries of origin included increasing salaries and benefits, improving working conditions, creating barriers to migration, establishing bilateral or multilateral agreements, implementing brain circulation processes, and enhancing the political and economic conditions within these countries.Conversely, strategies for destination countries encompassed the ethical recruitment of nurses from developing nations, compensating countries of origin, and efforts aimed at achieving self-sufficiency in the nursing workforce.Conclusion: Despite the short-term benefits of nurse migration for destination countries, it presents significant challenges for the healthcare systems of developing nations.Identifying and implementing effective strategies-including increasing salaries and benefits, improving working and living conditions in countries of origin, and establishing bilateral or multilateral agreements while ensuring ethical recruitment in destination countries-are essential for managing nurse migration.These initiatives necessitate extensive international cooperation and a commitment from policymakers to prevent health crises and enhance global health systems.

The unit dose distribution system ensures the delivery of drugs from the hospital pharmacy to the ward for a specific patient. Facilitating the improvement process of patients and drug safety requires such research. However, two human factors affecting this process, including pharmacists and nurses, and the impact that the drug distribution system in the hospital has on their condition, have been studied as the purpose of this research. Methods: This study was done by descriptive and analytical-comparative method. Data were collected from the staff of Urmia Women's Hospital in 2021, including 76 hospital staff, 11 pharmacists, and 32 nurses as a sample from three groups using three standard questionnaires. Data were analyzed by two dependent samples T-tests in SPSS-24 software. Results: Attention to pharmacists in the implementation of the unit-dose system by stimulating their interest in pharmaceutical sciences, being in the center of attention of colleagues, and increasing their desire to work in the hospital changed the level of job identity and, thus, it explained their appropriate professional position. Time saving, lack of differences in the counting of drugs, and the peace of mind of nurses after the implementation of the unit-dose plan increased the role of nurses in the main task of patient care by obtaining job satisfaction (3.29), which increased to above the average level ( P<0.001). Conclusion: Success in the implementation of this project in the selected hospital is expected to improve the professional position of pharmacists in the hospital and increase the job satisfaction of nurses.

Introduction:One of the communication models that improves communication between the care team, reduces errors, and increases the quality of care is the SBAR method. The aim of this paper was to determine the effect of using the SBAR model in shift handover on patient and nurse satisfaction. Methods: This quasi-experimental study was conducted in the emergency department of Golestan Hospital in Ahvaz, 2020. According to the statistical formula, 70 shift handover positions (in control and experimental groups) were selected based on inclusion criteria. First, the control group was randomly selected and, after training the SBAR model, the experimental group was randomly selected. Shift handover was performed routinely in the control group, but it was based on the SBAR model in the test group. Data were collected using demographic, nurse, and patient satisfaction questionnaires and a researcher-made shift handover checklist. Data were analyzed by an independent t-test, a paired t-test, and a chi-2. Results: The findings showed that there was no statistically significant difference between the two groups of patients in terms of age, length of hospital stays, gender, marriage, employment, education, and type of disease (p<0.05). The results of the paired t-test showed that nurses' satisfaction increased significantly after the intervention. Furthermore, the satisfaction of patients in the experimental group was significantly higher than that of the control group.

A mobile-based sensory diet application to educate parents of children with attention deficit / hyperactivity disorder