Background: Justice and its implementation are one of the fundamental and innate needs of the human. Employees' exhibit higher levels of performance, loyalty, act more than their job descriptions and have high level of organizational citizenship behavior when they believe they are treated fairly at workplace. Aims: This study aimed to investigate the relationship between organizational justice and organizational citizenship behavior among nurses. Setting: El Demerdash university Hospital. Design: a descriptive, correlational design was used. The study subject included 179 nurses. Data collection tools: Data were collected by using organizational justice questionnaire sheet, and organizational citizenship behavior scale. Results: More than half of the studied nurses had moderate perception level toward organizational justice, more than half of the studied nurses had positive organizational citizenship behavior. Conclusion: There is a highly statistically significant positive correlation between altruism and distributive justice. However; there was no statistically significant correlation between organizational justice and organizational citizenship behavior. Recommendations: Nursing Managers have to respectful to rights and duties of nurses in making decisions and conducted periodically meeting with their staff nurses to discuss and solve their work problems.
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: 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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