Saudi Arabia has relied on non-Saudi nurses to meet the nursing demands. Saudi Arabia faces a cri... more Saudi Arabia has relied on non-Saudi nurses to meet the nursing demands. Saudi Arabia faces a critical professional nursing shortage. The annual rate of Saudi nursing graduates is insufficient to meet the increasing healthcare demands. Young women do not view nursing as socially appropriate career choice. Most Saudi families do not consider nursing as an honorable occupational choice. Therefore, prevailing negative images and perceived low status of nursing have contributed to the high stress level of participants. Aim: describe preparatory Students' perception for Nursing Profession and The Impact on their career choice in Qassim University in KSA. Methodology: A descriptive cross sectional survey will be used. Probability sample all preparatory premedical students' male and female in Qassim University in KSA present at the time of the study recruited within Academic year 2013-2014. Whereas male numbers equal 260 students and Female numbers equal 253 students. Results: th...
In PBL (problem based learning), the learning activity starts with a problem, which is a descript... more In PBL (problem based learning), the learning activity starts with a problem, which is a description of a set of phenomena or events in need of explanation in terms of an underlying process, mechanism or principle. Students analyze these problems in small groups. The task of the group of students is to explain the phenomena or events provided in the given problem. Quality of problems and the tutor performance are all important features of a problem based curriculum. The most dominant factor that affects the PBL process is the high quality of the problems presented to the students. High quality problems are crucial for successful learning in Problem Based Learning. Aim: The aim of this study was to evaluate the quality of PBL scenarios at Colleges of Nursing in Egypt and KSA. Material: descriptive analytic study design was conducted. The study sample consisted of 140 undergraduate nursing students in in and 74 from in . Questionnaire consisted of six factors derived from criteria of ...
Saudi Arabia has relied on non-Saudi nurses to meet the nursing demands. Saudi Arabia faces a cri... more Saudi Arabia has relied on non-Saudi nurses to meet the nursing demands. Saudi Arabia faces a critical professional nursing shortage. The annual rate of Saudi nursing graduates is insufficient to meet the increasing healthcare demands. Young women do not view nursing as socially appropriate career choice. Most Saudi families do not consider nursing as an honorable occupational choice. Therefore, prevailing negative images and perceived low status of nursing have contributed to the high stress level of participants. Aim: describe preparatory Students’ perception for Nursing Profession and The Impact on their career choice in Qassim University in KSA. Methodology: A descriptive cross sectional survey will be used. Probability sample all preparatory premedical students' male and female in Qassim University in KSA present at the time of the study recruited within Academic year 2013-2014. Whereas male numbers equal 260 students and Female numbers equal 253 students. Results: three qu...
Background: Cardiac catheterization is considered as the gold standard practice for the recogniti... more Background: Cardiac catheterization is considered as the gold standard practice for the recognition and diagnosis coronary heart disease. The hazard physically and emotionally occurs from this procedure can disturb the patient’s perception of their health. Nursing care is vital in survival and avoids the patients from post cardiac catheterization problems. So the competence of nurses about knowledge and practice regarding patient care after cardiac catheterization is very crucial. Aims: the aim of this study to investigate the effect of creating learning guideline for nurses caring for patients safety undergoing cardiac catheterization. Methods: A quasi experimental research design was conducted. The study was conducted at the Cardiac Catheterization intensive care, cardiac care and emergency units at general Port Said hospital in Port Said city – Egypt. Subjects: A purposive sample of 51 nurses was working in those departments. Tools: two tools were utilized. Tool I: consisted...
Graduate nurses entering the practice setting are faced with stressful challenges. Identifying st... more Graduate nurses entering the practice setting are faced with stressful challenges. Identifying stakeholders' and faculty members practice expectations for entry level graduate nurses will assist academic nursing educators in creating a reality based educational programs that lead to successful transition of graduate nurses. Health care systems depend on the knowledge and skills of nurses to render expert care to patients. As members of multidisciplinary teams of clinicians, nurses are expected to demonstrate competency in nursing care. When nursing students graduate and become employees of the health care industry, they are recognized as key participants because of their critical function as competent caregivers in the delivery of safe patient care. The aim of this study is to compare and describe nurse managers' and faculty members practice expectations for entry level graduate bachelor degree nurses at Qassim University. Study design and sample: Comparative exploratory stu...
Background: Decision making is esteemed as single of the core traits of human being for a critica... more Background: Decision making is esteemed as single of the core traits of human being for a critical care nurse and vital aspect of the performance of critical care nursing. Critical care nurses are continually faced by way of situations where they have to create well clinical decisions. Aim: This study was conducted to investigate clinical decision-making Experience of the critical care nurses’ and its effect on their Job satisfaction. Subjects and method: A descriptive exploratory research design was used. Purposive sample of all nurses were included in this study. It included 60 nurse worked in Damanhur teaching governmental hospitals from ICU and CCU units. Data were collected through using two modificated tools from; Michael, 2007 and Alzahrany (2010) which the first Tool includes nurse's job satisfaction sheet and the second tool contains nurse's clinical decision making experience quesionnaire. Results: The study discovered that the majority of the nurses were satisfied...
Background: In Nursing Field competence is crucial to ensuring secure, moral and legal nursing pe... more Background: In Nursing Field competence is crucial to ensuring secure, moral and legal nursing performance. A variety of instruction approaches' are used in nursing instruction to improve graduate proficiency. The Problem Based Learning approach to learning in medical education can be considered as the mainly significant educational advance in the previous 35 years. Problem-based learning is promoted as a mean to facilitate critical thinking and self-directed learning among nursing students. Several nursing curriculums are using Problem-based learning in an attempt to help undergraduates to develop advanced level skills correlated with professional nursing performance. Aim: To evaluate efficiency of the Problem Based Learning Course at of in and KSA. Subject and methods: A descriptive analytic study design was conducted. The study sample was consists of 140 undergraduate nursing students in Port Said University, Egypt and 74 from Qassim University of Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Res...
The work environment of intensive care nurses may have substantial impact on both nursing outcome... more The work environment of intensive care nurses may have substantial impact on both nursing outcomes and patient safety. Performance obstacles are the factors that hinder intensive care nurses' capacity to perform their jobs and that are associated closely with their immediate work environment. Aim: To identify the performance obstacles experienced by critical care nurses in their work environment that covers all elements of the work system model. Subject and methods: An exploratory, descriptive design was utilized. The sample included all available nurses (n=60). Data was collected by using questionnaire performance obstacles. It was conducted in Damanhur teaching hospital in Damanhur city in 2 critical care units. Results: indicated that nurses experience in critical care units a wide variety of performance obstacles that cover all elements of the work system model. Conclusion: Performance obstacles represent the following elements of the work system: environment (6 obstacles), ...
International Journal of Advanced Nursing Studies, 2018
Cardiac Catheterization is a life-threatening health problem, which needs standardized interventi... more Cardiac Catheterization is a life-threatening health problem, which needs standardized intervention policies, as well as it requires health provider to be skillful and high qualify to attain highest effect of management. This study aimed to investigate the effect of a construction educational protocol on nurses' knowledge, performance and its effect on patient satisfaction undergoing cardiac catheterization.Methods: This quasi-experimental study was conducting in catheterization, intensive care and cardiac care unit at general Port Said hospital in Port Said city – Egypt including all nurses were worked at those units (51) and all patients admitted to cardiac catheterization unit within 6 month. Data was collected through Socio -Demographic data sheet, structured questionnaire to assess knowledge, observational checklist to assess nurses' performance and tools to assess patient sociodemographic data and patient satisfaction.Results: There was increase nurses knowledge and pe...
International Journal of Basic and Applied Sciences, 2016
Background: Compliance with standard precautions has been shown to reduce the risk of exposure to... more Background: Compliance with standard precautions has been shown to reduce the risk of exposure to blood and body fluids. Nurses represent the largest percentage of the health care workers hence; their compliance with standard precautions guidelines seems to be more crucial in preventing the disease transmission among patients.Aim: this study aims to evaluate compliance to standard precautions among nurses working in Qassim Hospitals in KSA.Methodology: A cross sectional study was conducted in 4 multispecialty hospitalsof Al-Qassim region, KSA. A purposive sampling approach was adopted whereas sample consisted of 284 male and female nurses working in multispecialty hospitals. Data collected through self-administrative questionnaire which consists of; personal and work characteristics of nurses, nurses’ knowledge and compliance of standard precautions.Results: Nearly half of nurses had poor knowledge regarding standard precautions and the majority of nurses had better compliance to st...
Both availability and quality of family planning services are believed to have contributed to inc... more Both availability and quality of family planning services are believed to have contributed to increasing contraceptive use and declining fertility rates in developing countries. Family planning is an integral component of family welfare. It saved the lives of women and children. Women education about family planning is essential to good health. Nurses play a key role in the promotion of women’s reproductive health. Aim: The aim of this study was to improve Health Education Skills for Nurses working in MCH centers to enhance women awareness regarding family planning. Subject and methods A quasi experimental study was used, and conducted in 6 MCH centers in North of Cairo zone. Purposive sample of 29 nurses (total number of nurses 106) and 192 married women were taken. A self-administered questionnaire for nurses were used to assess socio-demographic data and nurse's knowledge related to health education and observational checklist to assess nurses' performance. For women; an interviewing questionnaire was used to assess socio-demographic data and knowledge about family planning. Data were collected at pre-post program. Results: The results showed that at post test, an improvement in nurses' knowledge and nurses' performance regarding health education. Also it illustrated that an improvement in women' knowledge about family planning post intervention with a highly significant difference post intervention program related to women and nurses. Conclusions: Health education program was successful improving health education skills for nurses and family planning knowledge for women. [Fathia A. Mersal and Lamiaa Ismail Keshk. Improving Health Education Skills for Nurses Working in MCH Centers in Egypt to Enhance Women Awareness Regarding Family Planning. Journal of American Science 2012; 8(2):283-290]. (ISSN: 1545-1003). http://www.americanscience.org. 41.
Nurses are responsible for the safety of their patients. So, preventing error and maximizing qual... more Nurses are responsible for the safety of their patients. So, preventing error and maximizing quality of care for patients requires that those in health care be open to a variety of strategies for modifying work schedules and preventing fatigue that may require changes in long standing behaviors and preferences. Aim: To examine the effect of nurses' work hours and fatigue on occurrence of medication errors. Subject and methods: An exploratory, descriptive design was utilized to accomplish this study. The sample included all available nurses (n=29) were work in the two medical oncology units and (n=20) nurses work in ICU and conducted at the National Cancer Institute (NCI), Cairo- University. Tools for Data Collection were five included Socio demographic data, working hours data sheet, (CIS) chronic fatigue instrument, Need for recovery instrument and Medication errors observational sheet. Results: indicated that there was correlation between working hours and fatigue related to p...
Saudi Arabia has relied on non-Saudi nurses to meet the nursing demands. Saudi Arabia faces a cri... more Saudi Arabia has relied on non-Saudi nurses to meet the nursing demands. Saudi Arabia faces a critical professional nursing shortage. The annual rate of Saudi nursing graduates is insufficient to meet the increasing healthcare demands. Young women do not view nursing as socially appropriate career choice. Most Saudi families do not consider nursing as an honorable occupational choice. Therefore, prevailing negative images and perceived low status of nursing have contributed to the high stress level of participants. Aim: describe preparatory Students' perception for Nursing Profession and The Impact on their career choice in Qassim University in KSA. Methodology: A descriptive cross sectional survey will be used. Probability sample all preparatory premedical students' male and female in Qassim University in KSA present at the time of the study recruited within Academic year 2013-2014. Whereas male numbers equal 260 students and Female numbers equal 253 students. Results: th...
In PBL (problem based learning), the learning activity starts with a problem, which is a descript... more In PBL (problem based learning), the learning activity starts with a problem, which is a description of a set of phenomena or events in need of explanation in terms of an underlying process, mechanism or principle. Students analyze these problems in small groups. The task of the group of students is to explain the phenomena or events provided in the given problem. Quality of problems and the tutor performance are all important features of a problem based curriculum. The most dominant factor that affects the PBL process is the high quality of the problems presented to the students. High quality problems are crucial for successful learning in Problem Based Learning. Aim: The aim of this study was to evaluate the quality of PBL scenarios at Colleges of Nursing in Egypt and KSA. Material: descriptive analytic study design was conducted. The study sample consisted of 140 undergraduate nursing students in in and 74 from in . Questionnaire consisted of six factors derived from criteria of ...
Saudi Arabia has relied on non-Saudi nurses to meet the nursing demands. Saudi Arabia faces a cri... more Saudi Arabia has relied on non-Saudi nurses to meet the nursing demands. Saudi Arabia faces a critical professional nursing shortage. The annual rate of Saudi nursing graduates is insufficient to meet the increasing healthcare demands. Young women do not view nursing as socially appropriate career choice. Most Saudi families do not consider nursing as an honorable occupational choice. Therefore, prevailing negative images and perceived low status of nursing have contributed to the high stress level of participants. Aim: describe preparatory Students’ perception for Nursing Profession and The Impact on their career choice in Qassim University in KSA. Methodology: A descriptive cross sectional survey will be used. Probability sample all preparatory premedical students' male and female in Qassim University in KSA present at the time of the study recruited within Academic year 2013-2014. Whereas male numbers equal 260 students and Female numbers equal 253 students. Results: three qu...
Background: Cardiac catheterization is considered as the gold standard practice for the recogniti... more Background: Cardiac catheterization is considered as the gold standard practice for the recognition and diagnosis coronary heart disease. The hazard physically and emotionally occurs from this procedure can disturb the patient’s perception of their health. Nursing care is vital in survival and avoids the patients from post cardiac catheterization problems. So the competence of nurses about knowledge and practice regarding patient care after cardiac catheterization is very crucial. Aims: the aim of this study to investigate the effect of creating learning guideline for nurses caring for patients safety undergoing cardiac catheterization. Methods: A quasi experimental research design was conducted. The study was conducted at the Cardiac Catheterization intensive care, cardiac care and emergency units at general Port Said hospital in Port Said city – Egypt. Subjects: A purposive sample of 51 nurses was working in those departments. Tools: two tools were utilized. Tool I: consisted...
Graduate nurses entering the practice setting are faced with stressful challenges. Identifying st... more Graduate nurses entering the practice setting are faced with stressful challenges. Identifying stakeholders' and faculty members practice expectations for entry level graduate nurses will assist academic nursing educators in creating a reality based educational programs that lead to successful transition of graduate nurses. Health care systems depend on the knowledge and skills of nurses to render expert care to patients. As members of multidisciplinary teams of clinicians, nurses are expected to demonstrate competency in nursing care. When nursing students graduate and become employees of the health care industry, they are recognized as key participants because of their critical function as competent caregivers in the delivery of safe patient care. The aim of this study is to compare and describe nurse managers' and faculty members practice expectations for entry level graduate bachelor degree nurses at Qassim University. Study design and sample: Comparative exploratory stu...
Background: Decision making is esteemed as single of the core traits of human being for a critica... more Background: Decision making is esteemed as single of the core traits of human being for a critical care nurse and vital aspect of the performance of critical care nursing. Critical care nurses are continually faced by way of situations where they have to create well clinical decisions. Aim: This study was conducted to investigate clinical decision-making Experience of the critical care nurses’ and its effect on their Job satisfaction. Subjects and method: A descriptive exploratory research design was used. Purposive sample of all nurses were included in this study. It included 60 nurse worked in Damanhur teaching governmental hospitals from ICU and CCU units. Data were collected through using two modificated tools from; Michael, 2007 and Alzahrany (2010) which the first Tool includes nurse's job satisfaction sheet and the second tool contains nurse's clinical decision making experience quesionnaire. Results: The study discovered that the majority of the nurses were satisfied...
Background: In Nursing Field competence is crucial to ensuring secure, moral and legal nursing pe... more Background: In Nursing Field competence is crucial to ensuring secure, moral and legal nursing performance. A variety of instruction approaches' are used in nursing instruction to improve graduate proficiency. The Problem Based Learning approach to learning in medical education can be considered as the mainly significant educational advance in the previous 35 years. Problem-based learning is promoted as a mean to facilitate critical thinking and self-directed learning among nursing students. Several nursing curriculums are using Problem-based learning in an attempt to help undergraduates to develop advanced level skills correlated with professional nursing performance. Aim: To evaluate efficiency of the Problem Based Learning Course at of in and KSA. Subject and methods: A descriptive analytic study design was conducted. The study sample was consists of 140 undergraduate nursing students in Port Said University, Egypt and 74 from Qassim University of Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Res...
The work environment of intensive care nurses may have substantial impact on both nursing outcome... more The work environment of intensive care nurses may have substantial impact on both nursing outcomes and patient safety. Performance obstacles are the factors that hinder intensive care nurses' capacity to perform their jobs and that are associated closely with their immediate work environment. Aim: To identify the performance obstacles experienced by critical care nurses in their work environment that covers all elements of the work system model. Subject and methods: An exploratory, descriptive design was utilized. The sample included all available nurses (n=60). Data was collected by using questionnaire performance obstacles. It was conducted in Damanhur teaching hospital in Damanhur city in 2 critical care units. Results: indicated that nurses experience in critical care units a wide variety of performance obstacles that cover all elements of the work system model. Conclusion: Performance obstacles represent the following elements of the work system: environment (6 obstacles), ...
International Journal of Advanced Nursing Studies, 2018
Cardiac Catheterization is a life-threatening health problem, which needs standardized interventi... more Cardiac Catheterization is a life-threatening health problem, which needs standardized intervention policies, as well as it requires health provider to be skillful and high qualify to attain highest effect of management. This study aimed to investigate the effect of a construction educational protocol on nurses' knowledge, performance and its effect on patient satisfaction undergoing cardiac catheterization.Methods: This quasi-experimental study was conducting in catheterization, intensive care and cardiac care unit at general Port Said hospital in Port Said city – Egypt including all nurses were worked at those units (51) and all patients admitted to cardiac catheterization unit within 6 month. Data was collected through Socio -Demographic data sheet, structured questionnaire to assess knowledge, observational checklist to assess nurses' performance and tools to assess patient sociodemographic data and patient satisfaction.Results: There was increase nurses knowledge and pe...
International Journal of Basic and Applied Sciences, 2016
Background: Compliance with standard precautions has been shown to reduce the risk of exposure to... more Background: Compliance with standard precautions has been shown to reduce the risk of exposure to blood and body fluids. Nurses represent the largest percentage of the health care workers hence; their compliance with standard precautions guidelines seems to be more crucial in preventing the disease transmission among patients.Aim: this study aims to evaluate compliance to standard precautions among nurses working in Qassim Hospitals in KSA.Methodology: A cross sectional study was conducted in 4 multispecialty hospitalsof Al-Qassim region, KSA. A purposive sampling approach was adopted whereas sample consisted of 284 male and female nurses working in multispecialty hospitals. Data collected through self-administrative questionnaire which consists of; personal and work characteristics of nurses, nurses’ knowledge and compliance of standard precautions.Results: Nearly half of nurses had poor knowledge regarding standard precautions and the majority of nurses had better compliance to st...
Both availability and quality of family planning services are believed to have contributed to inc... more Both availability and quality of family planning services are believed to have contributed to increasing contraceptive use and declining fertility rates in developing countries. Family planning is an integral component of family welfare. It saved the lives of women and children. Women education about family planning is essential to good health. Nurses play a key role in the promotion of women’s reproductive health. Aim: The aim of this study was to improve Health Education Skills for Nurses working in MCH centers to enhance women awareness regarding family planning. Subject and methods A quasi experimental study was used, and conducted in 6 MCH centers in North of Cairo zone. Purposive sample of 29 nurses (total number of nurses 106) and 192 married women were taken. A self-administered questionnaire for nurses were used to assess socio-demographic data and nurse's knowledge related to health education and observational checklist to assess nurses' performance. For women; an interviewing questionnaire was used to assess socio-demographic data and knowledge about family planning. Data were collected at pre-post program. Results: The results showed that at post test, an improvement in nurses' knowledge and nurses' performance regarding health education. Also it illustrated that an improvement in women' knowledge about family planning post intervention with a highly significant difference post intervention program related to women and nurses. Conclusions: Health education program was successful improving health education skills for nurses and family planning knowledge for women. [Fathia A. Mersal and Lamiaa Ismail Keshk. Improving Health Education Skills for Nurses Working in MCH Centers in Egypt to Enhance Women Awareness Regarding Family Planning. Journal of American Science 2012; 8(2):283-290]. (ISSN: 1545-1003). http://www.americanscience.org. 41.
Nurses are responsible for the safety of their patients. So, preventing error and maximizing qual... more Nurses are responsible for the safety of their patients. So, preventing error and maximizing quality of care for patients requires that those in health care be open to a variety of strategies for modifying work schedules and preventing fatigue that may require changes in long standing behaviors and preferences. Aim: To examine the effect of nurses' work hours and fatigue on occurrence of medication errors. Subject and methods: An exploratory, descriptive design was utilized to accomplish this study. The sample included all available nurses (n=29) were work in the two medical oncology units and (n=20) nurses work in ICU and conducted at the National Cancer Institute (NCI), Cairo- University. Tools for Data Collection were five included Socio demographic data, working hours data sheet, (CIS) chronic fatigue instrument, Need for recovery instrument and Medication errors observational sheet. Results: indicated that there was correlation between working hours and fatigue related to p...
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