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Work environment is the totality of all factors that influence satisfaction, performance, encompasses, intrinsic and extrinsic factors that make a work setting. Conceptual clarity about work environment factors gives empirical direction for future research and a theoretical underpinning for the myriad studies about nurses. Purpose: The present study was conducted for the purpose of clarifying and defining the concept of work environment, its factors, and negative and positive work environment. Methods: in this study, the steps of concept analysis were as follows: Select a concept, determine the aims of the concept analysis, identify various definitions of the concept, determine the concept of Work Environment Factors and identify negative and positive work environment. All studies between the years 2016 and 2021 were reviewed for the purposes of this concept analysis, PubMed, Google search engines, Ovid, and Pro Quest, were scanned and searched using the keywords. Conclusion: The positive work environment could significantly improve organizational outcomes. Identifying factors, which influence the positive environment, may reduce turnover intention and increase work engagement among nurses. These factors include autonomy, environmental control, the relationship between doctors and nurses and organizational support. Nurse Manager need to build a supportive work environment as effective way to increase nurses' psychological bonding and enhancing positive work outcomes that may in turn enhance organizational performance and their work engagement.

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Background: COVID-19 as a disaster is attacking the world as we are in a war that produced a larger number of deaths and patients. Health care providers including internship nursing students are considered our soldiers in that war, so they shouldn't be afraid when facing any disaster. Purpose: This study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of disaster management educational intervention on internship nursing students' COVID -19 Fear. Methods: Quasi-Experimental pre-test and post-test designs were conducted using one group. A convenience sample (N = 110) of internship nursing students who trained at Menoufia University hospitals and Shebin Elkom teaching hospital. Three instruments were applied, which were a Self-administered questionnaire to assess nursing intern students' knowledge, Self-reported questionnaire to assess intern students' practices regarding disaster management, and COVID-19 Fear scale to assess internship nursing students' fear. Results: This study revealed that internship nursing students' COVID-19 fear at the post-and followup intervention was reduced. Also, there was a highly significant difference in the internship nursing students' COVID-19 fear level between pre-and post-intervention and between preintervention and follow-up intervention at p≤ 0.001. Conclusions: The effectiveness of disaster management educational intervention had been achieved in reducing internship nursing students' COVID-19 fear. So, intern students should be trained and equipped to deal with disaster management. Recommendation: The undergraduate and postgraduate nursing curriculum should include the discipline of disaster management and continuous, and recurrent disaster management training programs are conducted during undergraduate or graduate education to reduce COVID-19 fear.

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