Background: Stress can come in many forms and NICU is an environment where there may be many types of stress such as nursing a critically ill baby, increased workload, taking on other roles, coping with the death and dealing with parents.Purpose: To explore and describe staff nurses' (SN) positive experiences while working in a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) in one of Malaysia Method: A qualitative interpretative approach using a convenience sample of four staff nurses; described using pseudonyms, from NICU in one Malaysian hospital participated in an interview conducted in English, followed by answering a semi-structured questionnaire in Malay. Responses were translated into English prior to thematic analysis using the method of Braun and Clarke [1]. Results:Two major themes emerged, learning opportunities; describes the new knowledge and skills staff nurses had developed, and feelings of satisfaction; describes sources contributing to staff nurses' satisfaction while working in NICU. Conclusions:The findings revealed that staff nurses' positive experiences of gaining knowledge, developing new skills, opportunity to further study in post-basic courses and being appointed as a team leader upon their achievements.

Exclusive breastfeeding (EBF) is very crucial for the health of infant as well as mother. However, the prevalence of exclusive breastfeeding is very low especially among working mother. Since the prevalence of EBF might be influenced by the level of knowledge on EBF, researcher comes to critical thinking to conduct this study to evaluate level of knowledge on EBF among working mother. A cross sectional design study was carried out to determine knowledge level on exclusive breastfeeding among working mother, and its relationship with demographic data in Hospital Canselor Tuanku Muhriz (HCTM). A total 283 respondents were recruited to participate in this study. The respondents' knowledge level on exclusive breastfeeding was identified using Kim & Chapman (2013) Questionnaire on Knowledge and Practice about Exclusive Breastfeeding. The result showed that majority of the respondents (56.9%) had high knowledge on exclusive breastfeeding. For demographic data, factors such as age, level of education, and family income had shown a significant association (p < 0.05) with level of knowledge on exclusive breastfeeding. In conclusion, the level of knowledge of EBF was identified among working mother, yet it has been influenced by mother's sociodemographic background.

Background: First aid is a primary, initial, immediate and temporary care treatment to an injured person in a life-threatening situation to preserve life and minimise consequences of injuries until help from emergency medical services is obtained. Students who are expected to be working in the hospital settings should be exclusively trained regarding first aid skills that include choking, bleeding, fracture, shock, drowning, electrocution, spinal injuries, burns and scalds.Purpose: To identify the knowledge, practice, and awareness of first aid skills among first-year diploma nursing students in a private institution.Method: A quantitative cross-sectional study was conducted at one private  Healthcare University College in  Negeri Sembilan, Malaysia. The quantitative cross-sectional study was conducted using an adapted questionnaire. Later on, the acquired data was entered into Statistical Package for the Social Sciences(SPSS) version 25 for data analysis as adapted from the original article. Descriptive statistical tests were used to analyse data for demographic section, knowledge, attitude and awareness of first aid skills based on the items asked. Chi-square test was then used to analyse the relationship between level of knowledge and attitude regarding first aid among the respondents. There were 126 respondents obtained by using convenience sampling which consists of first-year diploma nursing students.Results: The result showed that majority of the respondents (67.5%) had only intermediate level of knowledge while majority of the respondents (81.7%) had good attitudes regarding first aid. The majority of the respondents (67.5%) had intermediate level of awareness regarding first aid.Conclusion: From this study, the value of Chi-Square (χ²) for this analysis was 0.600 with the significant level of 0.963 (p<0.05) showing there is no relationship between the level of knowledge regarding first aid and the level of attitude towards first aid.  Thus meaning, the level of knowledge does not influence by attitude of respondents towards first aid.

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