Background & Objectives: Today, medication errors has important role in reducing patient health and rising health care costs. Aim of this study was to evaluate frequency of medication errors and factors influencing the failure to report of medical errors. Methods: This study were cross-sectional and conducted in 2012, nurses community in Qazvin teaching hospitals were studied. A sample of 24 nurses selected according to the formula of the sample size and Survey instruments and consisted of three parts: Demographic information, Types of medication errors and barriers to reporting medication errors .Test-Retest test was equal to 86%. Results: The average age of nurses participating in this study was 31 years old and the average work experience of nurses was 7.89 years. Most errors related to infusion rate and drug sensitivity with an average error of 2.20 and 1.92 respectively. The lowest frequency was errors of prescription with mean of 1.28. The highest value of the reporting was process barriers with 2.78 and Average minimum amount of administrative barriers with 2.22. Conclusion: The role of nurses is crucial to prevent medication errors.Managers have to provide educational programs for teaching to nurses and notifying them of the importance of correct medication reports.

Background & objectives: Stress and difficult conditions in some occupations (e.g.nursing) severely impaire marital and family relations. The present study aims to investigate the role of psychological hardiness, Islamic optimism and patience in predicting marital satisfaction of female nurses.

Methods: This research was a descriptive cross-sectional study. The research population included all married female nurses working in Ardabil governmental hospitals where 144 female nurses were selected by multistage cluster sampling method in 2014. Standard questionnaires were used for data collection. Data were analyzed by descriptive statistics (mean and standard deviation) and inferential statistics consisting of pearson correlation coefficient and multiple regressions using SPSS v.16.

Results: The results showed that psychological hardiness (r=0.49), Islamic optimism (r=0.43) and patience (r=041) have significant positive relationships with marital satisfaction. Multiple regression analysis showed that 34.6% of nurses' marital satisfaction is explained by psychological hardiness, optimism and patience (p<0.001).

Conclusion: Based on the findings, conflicts in married nurses' life can be controlled by training and strengthening psychological hardiness, optimism and patience, and avoiding interference of occupational stress on family and marital relationships by adopting these psychological approaches.