In recent years, procrastination has become a central issue which is difficult to ignore. It is considered one of the most serious problems in educational settings. So the current study aimed to investigate grit, self-regulation and self-efficacy as predictors of academic procrastination. The study was conducted at the Faculty of Nursing, Zagazig University, Egypt, using descriptive correlational design. A simple random sample of 324 nursing students, were selected from the above-mentioned setting. Four tools were used to collect data for the study; Academic procrastination scale, grit, self-efficacy scale and self-regulation scale. Results revealed highly statistically significant correlations among grit, self-regulation, self-efficacy and academic procrastination where P-value < 0.01, also, grit, self-regulation and self-efficacy were predictors of academic procrastination (R 2 = 0.110, R 2 = 0.290, & R 2 = 0.659, respectively). It is concluded that grit, self-regulation and self-efficacy can predict academic procrastination. Consequently, it is recommended that faculty should raise nursing students' awareness about procrastination and provide a training program about self-regulation for them.
Rapid changes in nursing practice emphasis on nurses' autonomy in the delivery of health care services and give them more responsibility in determining the outcome of their nursing interventions. These skills are the most essential nursing tools in healthcare delivery. So the present study aimed to determine the effect of reflective training program on nurse interns' critical thinking disposition and communication competency. This study was conducted at Zagazig University hospitals, Sharkia Governorate, Egypt. For this research a quasi-experimental design was utilized. Simple random sample of 80 nurse interns who receive their training at the above mentioned setting. Data were collected using three tools; reflective practice questionnaire, critical thinking disposition scale and interpersonal communication competency scale. Results illustrated that there was a significant betterment in nurse interns' reflective practice score after application of the program (p < 0.01). Also, there was statistically significant enhancement in critical thinking disposition score, where P-value < 0.01. Additionally, there was a statistically significant betterment in total score of communication competence after the program application (p < 0.01). Conclusion: Critical reflection had significant correlation with betterments of both critical thinking disposition and communication competence among nurse interns. Consequently it was recommended that faculty should encourage nursing educators to use reflection as a teaching method to develop students' critical thinking disposition and communication competence.
Background: Nurses are the key professionals in healthcare sectors; their job attitudes are closely associated with patient health outcomes and safety. There is an increase in the expectations of organizations from their employees and similarly the expectations of employees from their organizations. Aim: assess relationships among organizational identification, cynicism, job demand-resources and nurses' job crafting. Subjects and methods: A stratified random sample of 345 staff nurses working in Zagazig University hospitals, Egypt. This study used descriptive correlational design. Four tools used to collect data; Job crafting questionnaire, Organizational identification scale, Organizational cynicism scale and Job demands-resources questionnaire. Results: revealed that slightly more than half of nurses reported high level of organizational identification, cynicism, job crafting and job resources (51%, 54.5%, 53.3% &50.4%, respectively), while 79.4% of them had high level of job demands. Organizational identification was significantly and positively correlated to nurses' job crafting, job resources and negatively correlated with job demands where P< 0.05. On the other hand, organizational cynicism was significantly and negatively correlated to nurses' job crafting, job resources and positively correlated to job demands where P< 0.05. Conclusion: Nurses' job crafting was significantly and positively correlated to organizational identification, while it was negatively correlated to cynicism. Unlike job demands and resources weren't correlated to job crafting. Recommendation: Healthcare organizations should take precautions to remove underlying factors that cause nurses to have a tendency to display cynical behaviors and inform them about the organization, provide inservice training, and help identify them with the organization and they can design targeted training programs that focus on empowering nurses with the tools needed to shape their jobs.
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