Introduction: Handover is a key factor in the continuity of care and is the most vital communication means among nurses. Using an identical method for this can enhance the quality of the handover. Objective: To evaluate the effect of a shift reporting training program using the Situation, Background, Assessment, Recommendation tool on nurses’ knowledge and practice and their perception of shift handoff communication in noncritical departments. Methods: A quasiexperimental research design. The study was held in noncritical departments on 83 staff nurses. Researcher used a knowledge questionnaire, an observation checklist, and two perception scales were used to collect data. Statistical data analysis was performed with SPSS using descriptive, chi-square or Fisher exact tests, correlation coefficient, multiple linear regression model. Results: Nurses varied in age from 22 to 45 years old, with 85.5% of them being female. After the intervention, their knowledge rose from 4.8% to 92.8% ( p < .001), the adequate practice reached 100%, and their perception of the process had significant improvement ( p < .001). Using multivariate analysis, the study involvement was the main significant independent positive predictor of nurses’ knowledge and scores, and these latter were positive predictors of their perception. Conclusion: Using the shift work reporting method had a significant effect among the study participants using Situation, Background, Assessment, and Recommendation tool and improved their knowledge, practice and perception of shift handoff communication.

Background: Nursing informatics must be integrated into daily nursing practise due to the growing complexity of the healthcare industry and the nursing profession, which will positively affect their attitudes toward information technology. Aim: This study aimed to assess the relationship between nurses' attitudes towards the use of computer and their informatics competencies in nursing practice. Methods: At Beni-Suef University Hospital, all inpatient care units utilized a descriptive, correlational design. The study included a convenient sample of 300 staff nurses from various departments. Researchers used the nurses' computers and information technology questionnaire tool and the nursing informatics competencies questionnaire. Results: Most of the nurses polled had negative attitudes toward nursing informatics, and the overall mean of the informatics competencies of the nurses polled was unsatisfactory. Conclusion: There was a significant positive correlation between the study participants' attitudes towards the use of computer and their overall informatics competencies. Recommendations: Design an appropriate training program to help nurses maintain familiarity with new information technologies, supporting hospitals with resources.

Introduction Empowerment is an important motivator for clinical instructors to develop organizational citizenship behaviors. Job engagement may serve as a moderator, amplifying the impact of empowerment on organizational citizenship behavior. Objective This study examines the effect of job participation as a mediator between empowerment and organizational citizenship behavior among clinical teachers at nursing technical institutes. Methods This cross-sectional analytical study was performed on a convenience sample of 161 clinical instructors from six technical nursing institutes connected with five Egyptian Universities. For data collection, a self-administered questionnaire, including measures for assessing job engagement, empowerment, and citizenship behavior, was employed. This ran till November 2019, starting in June. Results Most clinical instructors had a high level of job involvement (82%), 72.0% had high empowerment score, and 55.3% had high citizenship behavior. Empowerment, job involvement, and citizenship scores were positively correlated. The female gender predicted empowerment positively. The workplace was also a powerful predictor of job engagement and empowerment ratings. Importantly mediated the link between empowerment and citizenship behavior was occupational engagement. Conclusions Employment participation was a crucial moderator of the link between autonomy and citizenship behavior. The nursing institutes’ administration needs to empower clinical instructors with more autonomy and participation in decision making through psychological support and fair salaries. It is proposed that an additional study be conducted to assess the efficacy of empowerment initiatives as a pathway to job engagement, resulting in higher civic behavior among clinical instructors.

Background: Professional values reflect an individual's belief and loyalty to his/her profession. It has a positive impact on nurses' practice of patient care. Aim of study: to assess professional values among nurses at Suez-Canal University Hospitals, and to examine its relationships with their decision-making and organizational commitment. Subjects and methods: This analytic cross-sectional study was carried out at Suez Canal University Hospitals. A purposive sampling technique was used (171 nurses). A self-administered questionnaire with scales for nursing Professional Values, Nurse Decision-Making and Organizational Commitment was used in collecting data. The fieldwork was from March to May 2019. Results: Nurses' age 21-55 years, and 91.8% were females. In total, the mean values out of a maximum of 5 for professional values was 3.47, 2.64 for decision-making, and 3.85 for organizational commitment. The scores of professional values and clinical decisionmaking had a strong positive significant correlation (r=0.865). In multivariate analysis, the professional values score was a positive predictor of the decision-making score. Conclusions: The nurses in the study settings have high professional values and organizational commitment, with lower decision-making skills. Professional values is a positive predictor of decisionmaking. Recommendations: It is recommended that hospital administration enhances nurses' abilities in decision-making through staff development programs. A study of the effect of professional values on nurse and patient outcomes is proposed.

Background: Health professional requires communication skills to establish and maintain effective helping relationships with patients and with each others. Aim: The current study aimed to assess communication skills among nurse interns' students of Teaching Institute of Nursing during health teaching at Suez Canal University Hospitals. Subjects & Methods: A descriptive design was utilized to meet the aim of the research. The study conducted in different departments and units at Suez Canal University Hospitals. All nurse interns' students (84 students) included in this study. They entered the internship program after they pass the fifth-year examination in Technical Institute of Nursing (five-year system). The data collected by using an observational checklist. Results: Among 84 nurse interns' students , the majority of them were female, single , less than 20 years old and live in urban areas (56.0%, 83.3%, 97.6% and 60.7%) respectively and two-thirds of respondents (60.7%) had unsatisfactory results for the communication skills while (39.3%) of them just got satisfactory results, in addition to this, that most of the students did not satisfactory results on self-preparation and skills of verbal communication during the health education process. conclusions : the majority of the nurse interns' students had inadequate total preparation, verbal and overall communication skills. But, most of them have satisfactory non-verbal communication skills during health teaching with a statistical significant correlation between some of the communication skills among nurse interns' students and their gender and residence. Recommendations: Preparing students to interact and create constructive communicative relationships with patients is essential to nursing practice. In addition, the curriculum must be included verbal, and non-verbal communication skills in details and students must practice it.