[Providing national draft on bridging education service gap in Iran]

Theory-practice gap or education-service gap is one of the most important challenges and important issues in today's nursing care which is an important issue in Iran health care system. In this study we aimed at providing national draft on bridging the theory-practice gap of nursing care in Iran. We designed the study in three phases. In the first phase, a systematic review was done. In the second phase, a qualitative content analysis was conducted and in the last phase, we conducted a study using Delphi method. After analyzing the data, we prepared a draft with 12 documents in three structural, educational and clinical sections. After examining structural, educational and clinical components; this draft tried to provide an internalization strategy on nursing needs in Iran. Evidently, the draft belongs to specific period; hence, continuous updating of the draft is a significant key to its dynamics

Site selection of municipal solid waste landfills using analytical hierarchy process method in a geographical information technology environment in Giroft

Municipal solid waste generation is among the most significant sources which threaten the global environmental health. As an ideal selection depends on considering several independent factors concerning land use, socio economy and hydrogeology, the use of a multi criteria evaluation method seems inevitable. Taking benefit of geographic information system as a tool in combination with geographical information technology, equips the spatial decision support systems in appropriate site selection of sanitary landfills. The present study involves a kind of multi criteria evaluation method under the name of weighted linear combination by using geographical information technology as a practical instrument to evaluate the suitability of the vicinity of Giroft city in Kerman province of Iran for landfill. Water permeability, slope, distance from rivers, depth of underground watertable, distance from residential areas, distance from generation centers, general environmental criterion and distance from roads are the criteria which have been taken in to consideration in the process of analyzing. Superposing all of the raster type layers including geomorphologic, hydrologic, humanistic and land use criteria in land suitability, the final zoning of appropriate, fairly appropriate and inappropriate districts have been identified. Considering relative priority of all criteria in comparison with others, a specific weight is designated to each criterion according to their total influence on the whole process of decision making. The results from the application of the presented methodology are zones for landfill with varying zonal land suitability. Finally the zones will be ranked in descending order to indicate the priority of different options in front of the eyes of decision makers. The results achieved by this study may help policy makers of Giroft city by a variety of options for being considered as sanitary landfill locations