Nurse's activities and viewpoints about motivational factors, facilitators, and barriers of patient education

 Patient education is a dynamic and continuous process beginning from patient's admission to discharge and nurses play a vital role in this field. The aim of the study was investigate of Nurse's activities and viewpoints about motivational factors, facilitators, and barriers of patient education in Vasei hospital of Sabzevar in 2016.  This study is a descriptive cross-sectional research. Our research sample include: 111 nurses employed at Vasei hospital of Sabzevar in 2016. Sample was selected by non-random method (easy to access). The data gathering instrument was a questionnaire divided into 5 sections as follows: (1) questions regarding demographic characteristics (2) nursing activities (3) nurses` motivational factors associated with Patient Education (4&5) determining the facilitators and barriers of patient education. Data was analyzed using SPSS (version 20) and descriptive statistics.  Nurses pointed that most of their time is spent for writing tasks such as patient`s situation report (89.2). From nurses� point of view, the most important factor for patient education was job conscience (78.4). They introduced tha