%0 Journal Article %A Hajinabi, Kamran %A Nasiripoor, Amir Ashkan %A Zahedkar, Parviz %A Mehrabian, Fardin %T Relationship between nurses’ working shifts with human resources productivity %J Journal of Holistic Nursing And Midwifery %V 23 %N 1 %U http://hnmj.gums.ac.ir/article-1-164-en.html %R %D 2013 %K Nursing Staff, Hospital / Productivity / Personnel staffing and scheduling, %X Introduction: Nurses play a fundamental role on continuity of care and health promotion and affect ‎organizational utilization. Awareness of nurses’ viewpoint on relationship between working shifts ‎and human resource utilization provides the possibility of increasing their utilization and helps ‎managers in achieving their major and crucial mission of increased utilization. ‎ Objective: This study aims to determine the relationship between nurses’ working shifts and ‎utilizing human resources in state hospitals in northwest of Guilan province.‎ Methods: This research is descriptive analytical cross-sectional study. Study sample included nurses ‎with a Bachelor degree and higher and ‎‏184‏‎ nurses were chosen by random stratified sampling ‎method. The tool of data gathering was a questionnaire that its validity was obtained through the ‎content validity by grasping the views of Professors of management and nursing and its reliability ‎was attained through test-retest process. The collected data was analyzed using descriptive – ‎statistical test (One-way ANOVA and student T) by SPSS software.‎ Results: Using one-way ANOVA the results showed that five factors of organizational culture, ‎environmental conditions, motivational factors, enabling and leadership style were significantly ‎affected by working shifts. Among these factors, the factor of organizational culture had the most ‎effect on nurses utilization in the working shifts (p<‎‏0.05‏‎).‎ Conclusion: Human resource utilization was highest in the morning shifts and then rotating shifts, ‎evening shifts and night shifts were reported.‎ %> http://hnmj.gums.ac.ir/article-1-164-en.pdf %P 7-12 %& 7 %! %9 Research %L A-10-243-11 %+ %G eng %@ 2588-3712 %[ 2013