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This paper presents the importance of professional development for teachers in Al-Buraq School for Basic Education and to what extent it plays a vital role in improving their teaching and performance. Studying this topic is a way to figure out teachers’ attitudes towards professional development and the change it might cause to affect their behaviors and beliefs about gaining new skills, methods, strategies of effective teaching. “Teacher development is a professional growth a teacher achieves as a result of gaining increased experience and examining his or his teaching systematically” (Glathorn, 1995). To do this project we found ourselves totally surrounded with different types of teachers: teachers who are highly motivated, passionate and strongly enthusiastic to the work, teachers who lack motivation, and teachers who are relatively motivated to the teaching profession in different ways. A questionnaire was used to collect data about this subject. Teachers participated fully in answering the required information within the limited time. Accordingly, the questionnaires have been analyzed using Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) program version 19. The results are shown in the tables below and it showed that teachers have really positive attitudes towards continuing their professional development. In addition, we came up with great evidences of the necessity of top management supports for training courses. It also emphasizes that there is a real significant relationship between professional development courses and learners’ outcomes.

Nurses are health care professionals whose duty it is to protect patients from acquiring infections while hospitalized or while in a health care setup. By maintaining an infection-free environment, the patient’s recovery will be promoted and high-quality nursing care will be delivered. Aims and Objectives: The aim of the study was to determine the knowledge, attitudes, and practices of nurses regarding infection prevention and control. Material and Methods: A quantitative descriptive study was conducted at a tertiary hospital in Multan. Stratified random sampling was performed. Result and Conclusion: A total of n= 196 nurses of all categories were recruited in the study. Most of the participants were female; 84.7% (n= 166) while 15.3 % (n= 30) were male. The majority of participants had good knowledge of infection prevention and control with the mean score of 83.21. The attitude towards infection prevention and control was good with a mean score of 81.37. The practice in infection prevention and control was poor with a mean score of 48.88. Based on the findings of the current study, it can be concluded that, despite performing well in knowledge and showing a positive attitude towards infection prevention and control, nurses had unsatisfactory practice levels regarding infection prevention and control, exposing the pat1ients to infection-related diseases.