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Received: 22 Feb, 2016 Accepted: 30 Apr, 2016 Abstract Introduction: One of the key factors affecting on job performance, is compensation mechanisms. The study aimed to determine the relationship between compensation mechanisms and job performance among nurses working in hospital. Materials & Methods: This cross-sectional and correlational study was conducted in 2014. The number of 221 nurses at two hospitals (Valiasr and Lolagar) base on simple randomized sampling enrolled. Data gathered by two questionnaires for Compensation mechanisms and job performance. Data analysis was done by descriptive statistics and Spearman test. Findings: The results showed that the job performance of nurses is moderate (2.76±0.50). Among the compensation mechanisms, persuasive years, higher education grants, job promotions and performance based pay had a high priority, respectively. Spearman test showed significant relationship between job performance and non-cash payment (P= 0.0001), performance based pay (P= 0.004), persuasive years (P= 0.0001), decreasing the working hours (P= 0.0001), increase in services tariff (P= 0.0001), and monthly fixed amount (P= 0.02). Conclusion: According to our results, it seems that Services compensation variable is a good predictive for job performance. There were fewer tendencies for receiving cash benefits than non-cash payments for the nurses working in studied hospitals, proposed to be carried out as a pilot reform of compensation mechanisms and examine the impact of these reforms on variables such as job performance.

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Background & Aims: The provision of comfort is an essential part of nursing care and the main desire of patients during hospital admission. This study was conducted to determine the current and expected status of patient comfort in hemodialysis patients. Materials & Methods: This study was descriptive-comparative. 290 hemodialysis patients were selected in hospitals affiliated to Kurdistan University of Medical Sciences, Sanandaj, Iran, 2016. Data were collected using a demographic form and Kolkaba questionnaire, which included two parts of the existing and expected condition of comfort. Data were collected after the validity and reliability of the questionnaire. Data were analyzed using SPSS 21 software Results: The participants believed that the best current status of affairs was in domains of mental-spiritual (33.63) and then socio-cultural (29.23), and the weakest in the domain of environment (21.82). Patients had the highest expectations in providing psychological-spiritual (37.5) and minimal excitement in the environment (25.7). Conclusion: The results of this study showed that patients had the lowest level of comfort in the environmental field and were most expected to maintain comfort in the spiritual domain. Therefore, it is recommended that nurses of the hemodialysis department pay more attention to providing environmental comfort and physical and mental-spiritual care.  

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Background and Aim: Constipation is a common problem in orthopedic patients, therefore preventive interventions in nursing care for these patients is essential. The aim of this study was to determine the effect of chewing sugar-free gum on the incidence and severity of constipation in male patients under lower limb skeletal traction. Materials and Methods: This study was an experimental clinical trial that was conducted in a single blind randomized interval in in Besat Hospital Sanandaj, Iran in 2017. Sixty two patients who were under skeletal traction using simple randomization by throwing coins were allocated into test group and control group. The incidence and severity of constipation in intervention group was measured based on ROM III questionnaire after 7 days of intervention. Data were analyzed using SPSS Version 23.Chi-square and T-test was also used. Results: The incidence of constipation in the test group was 45.2% (14 patients) and in control group it was 74.2% (23 patients). The results showed that the incidence of constipation in the test group was less than that of the control group and this difference was statistically significant (p