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
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