fatemeh tehrani far

Time management is one of the principles of effective management that requires certain skills. It can be divided into two general categories of individual and organizational skills. This research seeks to investigate the relationship between the categories of individual and organizational skills in time management and the level of familiarity of librarians working in the libraries of medical sciences universities located in Tehran with these components.

In this research, the research method was descriptive and applied.The statistical population includes all the librarians of the libraries of Tehran medical sciences universities, 135 of whom were selected using the full population sampling method. In order to collect data, a two-part demographic researcher questionnaire was used to measure personal and organizational time management skills. The collected data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, Pearson's correlation test and single sample t in SPSS19 software.

The relationship between individual skills and organizational behavior is positive with a correlation coefficient of 0.192 (p<0.05). In terms of gender and type of university, the use of time management skills did not differ and was almost equal.

The familiarity of librarians with the components of organizational skills was more than individual skills and there was a positive and significant relationship between individual skills of time management and the six dimensions of organizational skills, and in the component of goal setting, the highest relationship and the lowest relationship was seen in delegation.

Effective clinical training promotes critical thinking and increases students' self-confidence regarding their abilities to perform professional responsibilities. Despite numerous quantitative studies, this concept is still not clearly defined. The purpose of this study is to investigate of midwives' perception and point of view of effective midwifery clinical training. This research is qualitative and content analysis type. The participants were 14 midwives who were selected based on the objective. Data was collected using semi-structured individual interviews and rapid review of documents and texts. Data analysis was done using content analysis method. 9 classes, 27 sub-classes or sub-categories related to the views of midwives on effective clinical midwifery training and explaining their understanding of the concepts were extracted. There were factors related to the instructor, factors related to the student, factors related to the clinical environment, factors related to treatment, etc. Effective clinical training in midwifery requires the provision of facilities, clinical environment equipment, the use of theoretical and practical skills of instructors, interaction and communication with students and staff of the department and the treatment team, and the up-to-date knowledge of instructors and professors determines the quality of clinical education.

Developing a negative attitude towards the elderly in the family and society can cause misbehavior towards them; therefore, improving the attitude towards the elderly will have positive effects on their health and quality of life. In the current research, an attempt has been made to investigate effect of a nursing home visit program on students' attitudes about the nursing home.

The present experimental study was conducted on 66 female students, seventh grade, in two groups of control and intervention by random block sampling in Tehran in 2016. The intervention group had a plan to visit nursing homes. Before visiting and meeting with the elderly, the intervention group students were given training on aging, elderly people and nursing homes, and how to communicate with the elderly was also explained. Then the program of visiting the old people's home was implemented. 4 weeks after the implementation of the intervention, the attitude survey questionnaire was completed again by both groups (103-105). Data collection was done with a researcher-made questionnaire in two sections: demographic information and students' attitudes. Students' attitudes were measured before and after the intervention in both groups. Data were measured using SPSS 23 software and independent t, paired t, Man-Whitney and Wilcoxon tests.

In the intervention group, there was a significant difference in the level of "attitude towards the elderly" before (16.13) and after the intervention (17.58) (P>0.001); But in the control group, the steps before (14.70) and after the intervention (14.96) did not show statistically significant difference (P>0.05). "Attitude towards the nursing home" in the intervention group, the scores before the intervention (21.61) compared to after the intervention (22.88), there was a statistically significant difference, and in the control group, no statistically significant difference was observed before and after the intervention. "Attitude towards leaving parents to nursing homes" in intervention and control groups; before and after the intervention, no significant statistical difference was observed (P < 0.05).

Visiting the nursing home had a positive effect on the students' attitudes towards the elderly and the nursing home, but it did not affect towards leaving parents to the nursing home.