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Background: Nursing care delivered to the patients by using physical, mental, social, spiritual and emotional skills. Increasing the level of job satisfaction can promote the level of empathy skills. Thus improving nursing care quality Objectives: The aims of the study were to assess of the level of job satisfaction and the level of empathy skills, as well as to assess the effect of job satisfaction on empathy skills among oncology nurses. Methodology: A correlational study (quantitative design) was carried out at oncology and hematology disease center at Kirkuk city for oncology nurses from first of February, 2020, up to the first of October, 2020. A purposive sampling (non- probability) of (56) oncology nursesboth males and females was selected. The instrument used in the study was designed by the researchers according to the previous literaturesto achieve the purposes of the study. The instrument of the study was consisting of fourparts: thefirst part was the demographical data of the participants, the second part was the Occupational data. The third Part was the Job Satisfaction Scale. And the fourth part was the nurses Empathy skills level. The data collection process wereutilized by using self-report technique. The data analysis were by using the descriptive statistical analysis (frequency and percentage) and inferential statistical analysis (Pearson correlation). Results: The results of the study demonstrate that (80%) of the nurses were dissatisfied regarding nursing job,also the results demonstrate that (64 %) of the participants having moderate empathy skill level, (32 %) of the participants having low empathy skills level. Conclusions: The study concluded that job satisfaction have clear effect on empathy skills among oncology nurses. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Background: Intravenous injection of medication is an essential nurse's skill at emergency department. Therefor errors of administration of drug depend on high efficiency of the nursing staff. Objective: To evaluate performance and attitudes of emergency care nurses regarding errors related to intravenous injection of medication. Methods: A study conducted between period of January 2021 to December 2021 to assess nurses attitudes and evaluate practices toward errors related to intravenous injection of medication. Descriptive approach observational design was conducted to evaluate the errors of the emergency nurses when administering intravenous medications. The present study was conducted at emergency department where nurses working. A purposive sampling consist of 30 nurses were selected according to the following criteria: (nursing staff working at emergency department, have one year experiences or more, and nurses that accept to participating in the current study). To attain the objectives of the study a constructed questionnaire was prepared by the researcher from the previous literature. Nurse demographical data and attitudes collected through interview technique. A checklist and observational technique were used to collect data for practice domain of the nurses. Study data were analyzed via the use of Descriptive statistics (e.g. Frequencies, Percentages) and inferential statistics (e.g. Chi-square and Pearson correlation) by using statistical package of social science (SPSS). Results: the results demonstrate that the Most age group of the samples were between (24-28) years, female were (56.7%) of the samples, (66.7 %) of the nurses graduating from college of nursing, (90 %) of the nurses having (1-2 years) experience in emergency department, and the majority of the samples not participating in training session regarding medication administration. Conclusions: the study concluded that the emergency care nurses were partially performed intravenous injection of medication practice, also the results conclude that the attitude of nurses were slightly positive regarding errors of intravenous injection of medication. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]