Abstract

The ratio of violence and consequently the ratio of cognitive failures are the factors ‎affecting the performance and efficiency of nurses in the workplace. This study has ‎been conducted aiming to investigate the relationship between cognitive failures and ‎physical violence. This descriptive - analytical and cross - sectional study was ‎performed on 98 male and female nurses working in various wards of the Modarres ‎hospital of Isfahan in 2018. Valid questionnaires were used to measure the violence ‎and ratio of cognitive failures. Finally, the data was analyzed using SPSS, version 25, ‎software and performing Spearman correlation test, the t-test, and one-way ANOVA. ‎Using Spearman correlation coefficient, the research results showed that there was a ‎significant relationship between violence and the memory of nurses at 5% error level ‎‎(p≤0.05). Also, there was also a significant relationship between physical violence and ‎attention and motor actions (p≤0.05). The results of this study showed that the ‎occurrence of physical violence was high among nurses and there was an interaction ‎between the dimensions of cognitive failures and violence; so that increasing violence ‎had led to cognitive failures` increase in doing the duty‎.