Introduction: To increase the productivity of the organization, several conditions are needed human resource is the most important one. That is why staffs incentive needs, are the most important factor and it happened by increasing their level of their morality and the job satisfaction. To achieve these, their needs in work environment must be identified and satisfied. The aim of this research is to study incentive needs for nursing staffs in selected teaching hospitals of universities of medical sciences according Maslow's needs hierarchy.

Methods: This research is a descriptive cross-sectional study. The statistical population are Namazi, Shahid Faghihi, Shahid Chamran, Hafez, and Khalili hospitals. Some 141 nurses have been involved in study selected by stratified random sampling. The needed information have been collected by questioners and analyzed using SPSS software calculation.

Results: Data showed that all fifth levels of Maslow's needs had a high level of incentive needs and evaluating and comparing the average incentive needs, and the respect need has the maximum score. Also, it showed there are a significant meaningful relation between physiological needs and age and sex, receptiveness and job situation variables, job experience and age, the respect needs and job experience and age factors. However there is no significant relation between security needs and self- dehiscence.

Conclusion: according to the achieved data, the fifth level incentive needs for nursing staff in Namazi, Faghihi, Chamram, Hafez,and khalili hospitals are listed as below: 1.Need to respect, 2.Physiologic needs, 3.Needs to kindness and love, 4Need to security, 5.Need to self- dehiscence