Nurse Manager's main job in contemporary health care organization is to increase degree of employee's participation in decision making and goal setting which in return has greater impact on employee motivation, and satisfaction. This study aimed at determining decision making styles used by Nurse Managers at main Assuit university hospital, and the effect of these styles on Technical diploma nurse' satisfaction. Subject of the study: the sample consisted of 96 Technical diploma nurse and 35 Nurse Managers. Setting: Medical and Surgical units at main Assiut University Hospital. Tools of data collection the data collected using structured questionnaire form. Results: the highest percentage of Nurse Managers were used authoritarian decision making style and the lost percentage were used delegative decision making style. Conclusion: Nurse Managers who were using participative decision making style achieving the highest level of employees' satisfaction. Recommendations Give employees opportunities to participate in goals setting and decisions to increase their commitment toward goal achievement. And further studies should be done including different countries to investigate the effect of cultures on Nurse Managers' decision making styles.

Background: Delegation is a very important time management tools used by headnurses in order to achieve productive outcomes. The use of delegation in nursing management can solve many issues and problems that faced nursing staff such as; nursing shortage and turnover. Aim: Determine headnurses' attitudes toward delegation and assess their delegation strategies. Descriptive study design was used. Setting: This study was conducted at Assuit University Hospitals. Subject: All headnurses (No.= 103). The data collected through self-administered questionnaire which consisted of three parts (personal data sheet, Delegation Attitudes, and Delegation Strategies). Results: Majority of headnurses are female aged from 30-40 years old, and they can improve their delegation attitudes. The highest percent score of delegation attitudes and strategies for headnurses working at El-Rajhi hospital and the lowest percent at the Main Assuit Hospital. Conclusion: The highest percent of headnurses can improve their delegation attitudes, and the most delegation strategies used are evaluate her/himself in delegating process. Recommendations: An in service training should be done for all headnurses to improve their capacity to use delegation as time management strategy.

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Background: Electronic Health Information System (EHIS) are currently considered a major part of the healthcare system; this importance emerges from the importance of their role in managing all patient data to documenting all medical services. Aim to evaluate the effectiveness of health care providers' usage of Electronic Health Record at Al-Rajhy Assiut University Hospital for Liver. Research design; Descriptive comparative research design was used for this study. Setting; the study had been conducted-at Al-Rajhy Assiut University Hospital for Liver. Subjects; the study subject included all users of the EHRs, (n= 250) Tools; one tool consists of three parts as following; personal and professional characteristics data sheet, Evaluation of electronic health records sheet, and Utility of electronic hospital information system sheet. Results; the study finding revealed that the majority of studied subjects were agreed that the system works well, easy to input information into electronic records, and easy to use, most of them agreed that the system provides clear, useful, complete information, provides reliable information, records are useful, present updated information in an appropriate format. And more than half of them agreed that the records offer reliability, and moreover facilitates coordination of tasks, decision process, auditing and release of procedures, facilitates analysis of hospital bills, verification of the materials & medications used in units, and facilitates hospital billing. Conclusion; There were high statistical significant difference among physicians, nurses, and employees' regarding to evaluation of electronic records system.There were statistical significant differences among physicians, nurses, and employees and general utility of electronic records. Recommendation; guideline and manual book about how to use of Health Information System should be available for users to support them in documentations. Arrange a training program to assess awareness for HIS users regarding the benefits of Information Technology and HIS. Training should be assured by arranging workshops to improve their computer and HIS proficiency.

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