ABSTRACT
Nursing education is oriented toward equipping nursing students with knowledge and skills about communication through traditional and non-traditional learning. Self-learning package is a self contained learning activity that allows learners to progress at their own pace. was to evaluate the effect of self learning package versus traditional learning on communication skills, design and implementation a self- learning package and evaluate its effect on the students, communication skills. self- learning package will improve the communication skills.of the students nurses in the clinical areas than the traditional learning [Lecture]. the study was conducted in classroom and nursing skills laboratory at faculty of Nursing, Ain Shams University, as well as, Ain Shams University Hospitals. The total number of the students was 200 students-. They were divided into two equal groups, group A [100 students] was the lecture group and group B [100 students] was the self learning package group. Data were collected through questionnaire sheet about communication, observational checklists about communication, and student's opinionnaire sheet. Results of this study concluded that there were highly statistically significant differences among the students in group A [Lecture] as compared with the students in group B [Self-learning package] regarding knowledge, practice and student opinions. The students were more satisfied with using self-learning package than lecture in learning communication skills. The study concluded that self learning package improved the knowledge and skills of communication among student's nurses in the study group B than the study group A [traditional lecture]. The study recommended that educators must focus their efforts on developing a variety of strategies and learning alternatives so that each student can select those through which he/she can obtain the most productive learning strategies and non-traditional methods of teaching should be used in teaching the nursing students