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Background nursing Background: An attractive and supportive work environment is critical to innovation. Work environment have numerous properties that may influence both physical and mental wellbeing. Aim of the study: This study aimed tot assess the relationship between work environment and innovative behavior among staff nurses. Design: a descriptive correlational study design was utilized. Subjects: the study was conducted on 203 subjects of staff nurses. Setting: the study was carried out at Beni-sueif university hospital. Tools: two tools were used to collect data: Self-administered work environment questionnaire and innovative behavior inventory. Results: the study revealed that, there were statistical significant relations between work environment and staff nurses' demographic characteristics regarding age and experience years. There were statistical significant relations between innovative behavior and staff nurses' demographic characteristics regarding age and qualifications. Staff nurses have a high level of agreement upon work environment along with high level of agreement upon innovative behavior. Organizational structure dimension of work environment was the highest dimension, while incentives and rewards dimension of work environment was the lowest. Conclusion:There was a statistically significant correlation between work environment and innovative behavior. Recommendations: staff nurses need to: contribute and reinforce leading practices procedures done for innovation development .Integrate informatics and technology into nursing practices. Further research can be conducted to identify strategies that helping nursing staff to develop innovative behavior.

Background: Critical thinking has now been accepted as the fundamental component of every education system. Aim: This study aimed to assess the relationship between critical thinking dispositions and Problem solving abilities among Nursing students. Design: A descriptive cross sectional correlational research design was used. Setting: The study was conducted at faculty of nursing El-fayoum University. Subjects: Included 434 nursing students. Tool of data collection: Data were collected by using two tools : A california critical thinking disposition inventory scale and problem solving questionnaire. Results: Highly mean score of the undergraduate nursing students (45.86) regarding truth seeking and low mean score regarding cognitive maturity (32.72). Highly mean score (49.25) regarding approach avoidance style and low mean score regarding personal control (12.98). Conclusion: There were statistically significant positive correlation between total critical thinking dispositions and total problem solving abilities among faculty nursing students. Recommendations: Faculties should provide student with orientation about importance of critical thinking and problem solving to meet the nursing challenges and future demands.

Background: Although respecting patient rights is crucial in the provision of quality care, patient rights and advocacy are often missed in nursing practice. Study aim: to assess the nurse interns' perception regarding patients' rights and advocacy.Research design: Adescriptive design was used. Subjects: study was conducted in the four Ain Shams University Hospitals on 111 nurse interns. Methods: A self-administered questionnaire with 2 tools for patient bill of rights and patient advocacy was used in data collection. The fieldwork lasted from February to April 2021. Results: Nurse interns' age ranged between 21 and 27 years, median 23.0 years, with almost equal gender distribution. Overall, 66.7% of the nurse interns had high perception of patient rights, and 80.2% had high perception of patient advocacy rights. A significant positive correlation was found between the scores of perceptions of patient rights and of advocacy (r=0.565). Female gender and awareness of the patient right bill were positive predictors of the patient right perception score, while for the advocacy score, female gender, family size, and previous training were positive predictors and age and night shift work were negative predictors. Conclusion : Nurse interns' perception of patient rights is suboptimal, while their perception of advocacy is higher, and both are positively correlated. Recommendations :Nursing internship program shouid give more emphasis to the area of patient rights and advocacy. The hospital administration should foster staff awareness of patient rights. Further research is proposed to explore the barriers that prevent nurses from advocating patients.

Background: Core Competencies are a valuable resource for nurse educators. The appropriate preparation of nurse educators is critical to the development of knowledge, skills, and attitudes of nurses. Aim: Study was aimed to assess core competencies of nurse educators at technical Institutes of nursing. Subjects and methods:-A descriptive cross sectional design was used in carrying 0ut the study on (40) nurse educators from Nursing Technical Institute affiliated to Ain Shams Specialized and University Hospitals, and (56) educators from Imbaba Technical Health Institute for Nursing, affiliated to Ministry of Health. A self-administered questionnaire was used to collect data. The fieldwork lasted from October to December 2016. Results:-the results revealed that their age ranged between 25 and 56 years, and 52.1% had a postgraduate degree. The highest core competencies were facilitating learning, while the lowest was participating in curriculum design and evaluation. Overall, 76.0% had high competencies. In total, 92.5% of nurse educators' in Ain-Shams institutions had high core competencies, compared with 64.3% in Imbaba institution (p˂0.001). Those who attended training courses had higher facilitator competency (p=0.047). in multivariate analysis, working in Imbaba institutes was the only significant independent negative predictor of the score of core competencies. Conclusion and Recommendations:-the nurse educators in the study setting have good core competencies, which are influenced by their age, qualification, attendance of training courses, and the workplace

Background: A high Quality of Working Life (QWL) is critical for healthcare organizations to attract and retain qualified, committed and motivated employees. Quality of working life refers to an employee"s satisfaction with working life. Aim: The present study aimed to assess the relationship between quality of work life and turnover intention among staff nurses. Research design: Descriptive-correlational design was used in carrying out this study. Subjects: 148 nurses were included in the study. Setting: This study conduct at Alagouza Governmental Hospital. Tools: two self-administrated questionnaires namely: Quality of work life and Anticipated turnover scale. Results: There was a statistically significant correlation between total home life score and nurses' socio demographic characteristics, while there was a statistically significant correlation between total work design score, total work context score, total work world score, total quality of work life, total intending to leave score and nurses' socio demographic characteristics except with no training course. There was a negative statistically significant difference between nurses' intention to stay and intention to leave and intention to stay by their quality of work life perception. Conclusion: There was a highly positive statistically significant correlation between qualities of work life dimensions. There was a negative statistically significant correlation between quality of life dimensions and intending to leave. Recommendation: The nursing administrators might be able to improve the level of QWL by increasing nurses" satisfaction with job security, professional recognition, work conditions, work schedule, workload and nursing staffing.

Background: Nurse managers leadership style is especially important to enhance staff nurses commitment which fulfill helping organizational objectives. Aim: the aim of this study was to identify the effect of nurse managers' leadership styles on staff nurses' organizational commitment through: assessing different styles of leadership among nurse managers, determining level of organizational commitment among staff nurses and finding out the effect of nurse managers' leadership styles on staff nurses' organizational commitment.Study setting: this study was carried out at Nasser Institute Hospital. Study design: this descriptive correlational design. Study subjects: the study was carried out on 80 nurse managers, and 174 of their staff nurses in the hospital setting. Tools of data collection: Two tools were used to collect data namely, leadership style questionnaire and organizational commitment questionnaire. Results: the democratic leadership style was the most highly used by (63.8%) of nurse managers and (54.6%) of staff nurses had high total commitment level. Conclusion: The study concluded that the nurse managers' democratic leadership score is a positive predictor of staff nurses' commitment, while the autocratic style score is a negative predictor. Furthermore, the study recommends that frequent regular meetings between nurse managers and their staff nurses to discuss nurses work problems and recovered their problems for better relationships and enhances support at work with suitable rewards for staff nurses.

Background:The clinical learning environment refers to the learning placement that provides opportunities to integrate theory into practice, build clinical decision-making abilities, and develop a professional identity.Aim: to assess the perception of secondary nursing school students regarding their clinical learning environment and clinical supervision in Port Said City.Subjects and Method: A descriptive correlational research designwas used for the current study in three secondary nursing schools at Port-Said city. The study subjects will include 360 femalestudents.Two tools were used for data collection; Clinical learning environment inventory actual and expected form(CLEI), and clinical supervision questionnaire(CSQ).Results:The current study revealed that the majority of nursing students reported that there was low level of actual clinical learning environment (66.47%), andthe majority of nurse students had a high level of expected clinical learning environment (76.4%), also more than half of nurse students had a moderate level of clinical supervision (56.9%).Conclusion:It was evidenced that there was a significant difference between actual and expected clinical environments. Also the results suggested significant relationship between clinical learning environment and clinical supervision. Recommendations:The main recommendations are suggested, considering students' expectations of clinical teaching environment and decreasingthe gap between the actual and expectedclinical environments is necessary. In addition,continuous studies on clinical teaching environment evaluation and their results, and to assess clinical instructors' and clinical staff opinions about the clinical teaching environment are recommended.