Background: Effective communication is a skill needed by all healthcare professionals, but not all are naturally good at it. Aim: To assess communication skills of healthcare professionals toward their patients. Design: An exploratory mixed-method design was utilized for the current study. Setting: This study was conducted at three hospitals: one general hospital in Minia city and two university hospitals in Assuit city. Subjects: A total of 508 participants were included: 358 nurses, 100 doctors, and 50 patients. Study tool: Included three tools namely: personal data sheet, HP-CSS, and semi-structured interviews (SSIs). Results: Quantitative data indicated that nurses and physicians have high communication skills. Both have statistically significant differences in informative communication and sympathy dimensions. Nurses have high mean scores in overall HPC-SS than physicians. Degree of satisfaction patients perceived is divers between nurses and doctors. Besides the support of qualitative result to this data. Conclusion: Healthcare professionals have high communication skills, but nurses showed a difference from physicians, owing to practicing the skills in different departments. Recommendation: All health care professionals are requires training and practice about effective communication that should be based on the approach of patient-centered.
Background: Nurses face extra professional challenges due to the COVID-19 pandemic, which results in physical and mental health problems. Compassion fatigue and pandemic emotional impact are considered extra-additional stressful factors that affect nursing time and their abilities for time management. Aim: current study aimed to investigate the relationship between compassion fatigue, pandemic emotional impact, and time management among nurses at isolation hospitals during COVID-19. Research design: The present study utilized a descriptive correlational research design. Setting: The study was conducted at both Minia (fever and chest) hospitals. Sample: Two hundred registered nurses met inclusion and exclusion criteria. Tools: The personal interview sheet, the professional quality of life scale, the Pandemic emotional impact scale, and the time management questionnaire were used to compile the data. Results: Less than half of the studied sample was in the age group between 19 and < 29 years old, while the majority of them were females. Near two-thirds of the studied sample had a high level of total compassion fatigue. Also, more than half of them had a moderate level of pandemic emotional impact and time management. Conclusion: there is a statistically significant positive correlation between pandemic emotional impact and burnout subdomain of compassion fatigue. On the other hand, there is a statistically significant negative correlation between time planning with compassion fatigue (secondary traumatic stress. Recommendations: Educational workshops and periodical training programs should be implemented to reduce nurses' compassion fatigue and pandemic emotional impact and inspire nurses to work with effective time management techniques.
Background: Nurses face many professional challenges. Their jobs are both physically and mentally draining, and on top of working in extremely stressful, pressure-filled environments they have to deal with a seemingly never-ending array of competing priorities and demands on their time, a ton of diverse patient and colleague personalities, and often-grueling work schedules. Aim: assessing relation between emotional stability and time management levels among nurses at one day surgeries hospital. Research design: descriptive research design was utilized in this study. Setting: The study was carried out at the one day surgeries Samalot Hospital. Subject: The subject of the study sample was include all staff nurses who working at the one day surgeries Samalot Hospital during the period of data collection with total numbers 159 nurses Tools: Two tools were used in this study; Emotional Stability questionnaire, and Time management questionnaire. Results: The majority of the sample (79.9%) have moderate level of time management, and the majority of the sample (85.5%) have moderate level of emotional stability,. Conclusions: The majority of the sample had moderate level of emotional stability and time management, there no statistical significance difference between nurses personal data and emotional stability, moreover there no statistical significance difference between nurses personal data and time management. While positive correlation between emotional stability, time management and its dimensions among nurses. Recommendations: Educational workshop and periodical training program should be conducted to all nurses to increase their knowledge and competencies regarding the development of emotional stability and time management
Background: Workplace bullying is a psychosocial and organizational problem within the health care system, which affect negatively in nurses' organizational trust and their turnover intention. Aim: Assess workplace bullying and its effect on organizational trust and turnover intention among nursing staff. Design: A descriptive correlational design was utilized to achieve the objective of the present study. Sample: A stratified random sample of 301 nurses were selected from Minia university hospitals. Setting: This study was conducted at Minia university hospitals, At Minia city. Egypt. Tools: four tools were utilized in this study: I: Socio-demographic Data , II: Workplace Bullying Questionnaire, III: organizational trust questionnaire and, IV: turnover intension questionnaire Results: Illustrates that about two third of staff nurses had the highest percentage level regarding workplace bullying, and less than two third of them had the lowest percentage level regarding the organizational trust and more than two third of them had the highest percentage level regarding turnover intension. Conclusion: The conclusions of the current study showed that, there were strong a positive correlation between workplace bullying and turnover intension. While there were a negative correlation between work place bullying and organizational trust, and a negative correlation between turnover intension and organizational trust for study subjects. Recommendations: health care organization should encourage supervisors to use effective communication skills and inspire perspicuous standards and guidelines to identify and battle workplace bullying to improve organizational trust and reduce turnover intention among nursing staff.
Background: COVID-19 is the most recent pandemic, with a significant morbidity and mortality rate over the world. These types of crises can have a negative impact on the mental and physical health of health-care employees, particularly nursing intern students. As a result, the success of the COVID-19 nursing intern students' struggle will be determined by their perception and coping behavior used to improve their quality of life during the global pandemic. Aim: Current study aimed to assess perception, coping behavior and quality of life during COVID-19 among nursing intern students. Design: Descriptive correlational comparative design was utilized. Sample: Convenience sample consisted of 400 nursing intern students which available in Minia university hospitals and 160 nursing intern students from 6 October university hospitals (total No. 560). Setting: Minia university hospitals and 6 October university hospitals, in Cairo, Egypt. Tools: four tools were utilized in this study. I: Personal characteristic data questionnaire, II: Perception about COVID 19 instrument, III: Coping behavior questionnaire, and IV: Quality of life scale. Results: this study revealed that more than two third of 6 October nursing intern students had satisfactory perception, nearly all intern students had moderate level of coping behavior, and more than two third of them had high level in quality of life. While Minia nursing intern students about two third of them had satisfactory perception, and moderate level of coping behavior, also about have of them had high level in quality of life. Conclusion: level of perception among nursing intern students was satisfactory, while coping behavior was moderate, and quality of life among them was high. There was a positive correlation and no statistically significant difference was found between perception and coping behavior; while there was a positive correlation and no statistically significant difference was found between perception and quality of life. Recommendation: Periodic workshop and training to improve and updating knowledge, perception and how to cope with COVID-19 that improve quality of life among intern nursing students.
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