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Background: A civil workplace climate is beneficial to nursing staff since it improves the staff nurses' quality of life as they treated with dignity and respect and not felled isolated or ostracized. Aim: Assess the relationship between workplace civility climate and workplace ostracism among staff staff nurses. Research Design: Descriptive correlational research design was utilized. Setting: Benha University Hospital. Subjects: Convenience sample consisted of 200 staff nurses. Tools: two main tools namely (I) Perceived Workplace Civility Climate Scale and (II) Workplace Ostracism Scale. Results: Most of staff nurses (81.0%) perceived workplace climate as civil/positive, (58.0%) of them had low level of workplace ostracism. Conclusion: Most of staff nurses perceived workplace climate as civil/positive. And more than half of nurses had low level of workplace ostracism. Recommendations: Incivility and bullying must be treated with zero tolerance policy by hospital administrators. Administrators at hospitals must foster a positive work atmosphere in which civil communication is the norm and hospital standards are known and obeyed.

Background: Increasing the nurses work environment quality is critical in the context of global paucity of qualified nurses. Workplace satisfaction has been a major factor in motivating positive job behavior. Research Aim: evaluate the effect of quality hospital's environment on nurses' satisfaction and their compliance with safety precautions. Research design: A descriptive design was utilized. Setting: Helwan General Hospital. Subject: A convenience sample was utilized to select the study population. Tools: Four tools were used as 1 st tool predesigned questionnaire include (personal characteristics), 2 nd tool "Quality of Hospital's Environment" and 3 rd tool "Job Satisfaction scale" and 4 th tool "Compliance with safety Precautions scale". Results: (60%) of respondent nurses complied with safety precautions, regarding to the total satisfactory level of quality of hospital's environment; it clarifies that 77 % of the respondent were satisfied. Conclusions: The conclusion can be drawn from this study would be that there were satisfactory level of quality of hospital environment and job satisfaction among the respondent nurses. Nurses satisfied with their work environment were willing to comply with safety precautions. Recommendation: Improving hospital environment to maintain high job satisfaction of nurses. Enhance compliance of safety precautions through encouragement and appreciating good performance, challengeable abilities activities to remain the nurse active all the time and encouraging teamwork spirit among nurses.

Nursing is an essential component of all healthcare services, with the potential to have a significant and long-term impact on health outcomes for the world's ageing population. As their professional behaviour plays a major role in improving the quality of patient care, this study was conducted to determine the professional behaviour of nurses. A descriptive and cross-sectional study design was selected with fifty nurses working in a selected teaching hospital who were selected using convenient sampling technique. The Behavioural Inventory for Professionalism in Nursing (BIPN) was used to determine the professional behaviour of nurses. The inventory has a total possible composite score of 27. All of the items were dichotomous and questioned about the nurse's actions in the last two years. The autonomy and research were the areas where nurses receive the lowest mean ratings from the BIPN subscales. The nurse's mean scores in the areas of competence and continuous education (mean = 1.97), educational preparedness (mean = 1.87) and application of theory (mean = 1.73) were the highest with the mean total score from BIPN was 10.44± 3.55. The results showed that age, gender, nurses' role, their years of experience and educational status had a statistically significant association with professional behaviour. Hence, the ways to improve the professional behaviour among nurses to be investigated and must be supported to uplift the image of nursing and the quality of patient care.

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Background: Nurse Leaders try to motivate their followers to construct engaged and exciting effective teams that go above and beyond the task's requirements in order to develop a high-quality, performance-oriented, committed, and attracted nursing staff. Aim: The study aimed to assess perspective of teamwork effectiveness and its relation with job attraction and organizational commitment among staff nurses. Research Design: Descriptive correlational research design was utilized. Setting: The study was conducted in Critical Care Units at Beni-Suef University Hospitals. Sample: 873 staff nurses who worked in the previously mentioned setting. Tools of data collection: Data was collected through four main tools namely (I) Personal characteristics data Sheet, (II) Team Effectiveness Questionnaire (III) Job Attraction Assessment Questionnaire, and (IV) Organizational commitment Questionnaire. Results: The findings of this study showed that about two-thirds of studied nurses (66.1%) had a high teamwork effectiveness level, more than two-thirds 68.0% of them had moderate job attraction, and more than half 58.5% of them had moderate organizational commitment level. Conclusion: It was concluded that teamwork effectiveness was positively statistically significant correlated with job attraction and organizational commitment. Recommendations: Hospital administration should conduct a training program for different levels of nurse managers to promote teamwork effectiveness in their organization.

Nursing education is considered as one of the most crucial element for improving the quality of professional identity of future nurses. Students face situations related to their profession and academic development that may be assessed as stressors. Burnout among students in the area of health, specially nursing students and the levels of burnout found are alarming. Faculty members as gatekeepers to the profession are in a very influential position in regards to the future career of their students. The aim of this research was to investigate relationship between perceived faculty support and burnout among faculty nursing students. Setting: The study was carried out at Faculty of Nursing, Beni-suef University. Subjects: 334 baccalaureate nursing students. Tools: three tools were used for data collection. The first tool predesigned questionnaire includes (personal characteristics). The second tool was Perceived Faculty Support Scale (PFS). The third tool: Maslach Burnout Inventory-Student Survey (MBI-SS). Results: Findings of the present study revealed that nursing students have high perception among burnout and faculty support and there is high statistically significant correlation between mentioned two variables as p-value <0.000**. Conclusion: The study concluded that there was a positive statistically significant correlation between total faculty support and total burnout among faculty nursing students. Recommendations: There should be a collaborative effort among academic staff members to remove unnecessary stressors and provide a supportive learning environment.

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