Decision making performance process among head nurses

Decisions play important roles as they determine both organizational and managerial activities. It is the key part of head nurses' activities. Decisions are made at every level of nursing management to ensure that the nursing department goals are achieved.The study aimed to assess the decision making performance process among head nurses. The study was conducted at El-Menshawi and El-Mahala General Hospitals which are affiliated to the Ministry of Health and Population. Study subject included all [95] head nurses working at the assigned hospitals. Decision Making Analysis of Areas and Activities Questionnaire and Decision Making Rating Scale for head nurses were used as tools for data collection.More than one third of head nurses propose the budget of nursing department imposed on them and make decision in concerning the needed qualifications of nursing personnel on each unit in conjunction with the chief. Seventy percentages of head nurses at El-Mahala General Hospital had high levels in the decision making process. More than half at El-Mahala hospital had moderate levels in the strategy of decision making performance process.Head nurses fulfilled the areas and activities of decision making process but a lot of decisions making is done with the chief either with or without subordinating opinions. Establishing training programs is recommended to help head nurses and subordinate staff in making effective decision, developing the budget of nursing unit and improving standard of care activities

Nursing and medical students views regarding the nurses' role in Tanta university

The role of the nurses is one of the challenges facing nursing and medical students entering the clinical phase of their education. This study designed to assess and compare between the views of nursing and medical students about the nursing' roles. This study used descriptive and comparative design. The study carried out at Nursing and Medicine Faculties in Tanta University. The subject constitute of 100 nursing students and 100 medical students, both of them were undergraduates belonging Tanta University. Data were collected randomly from the last year program of both nursing and medical students. One tool was used to collect necessary data to measure nursing and medical student's views about nurses' role. The result indicated that, the majority of nursing and medical students have negative view about nurses' roles. The study recommended that, there is need to identify the nursing faculty program and joint objectives that can be measured and evaluated to minimize the gap between the views of nurses and medical staff

Interactive television versus traditional lecture teaching methods among Saudi Arabian undergradute students

Technology-facility collaboration is being widely deployed in modern classrooms. The Strategy of Saudi Arabia universities is using interactive television technology, while engaging students at distance education. This study is designed to investigate the students' opinions about interactive television method versus traditional lecture as a mean of delivery for undergraduate students' courses. This study conducted in Community College, affiliated to King Abd-El Aziz University. Student Evaluation of Teaching Questionnaire was used to assess the opinion of the sample of undergraduate students in the last academic year. This study shows that while students have accepted interactive television method, most students strongly preferred the traditional lecture method to teach courses. Some problems were evidenced in that new method. Lecturer's inability to manage class environment, lacking experience lecturer, and unavailability of in time of exam, were the most statistically significant students' problems. Interactive television teaching method in Saudi Arabian university classes is newly introduced method for teaching of only some subjects. So it is recommended that faculty put into consideration to select effective teaching strategy particularly suitable for such settings and those specific groups of Saudi Arabian students

Effect of educational intervention on nurses performance to control infection in neonatal intensive care unit Tanta University Hospital

Nursing care of the high risk neonates requires critical care nursing, which has created a need for highly skilled personnel trained in the art of neonatal intensive care. The incidences of infection among high risk neonates are more frequent due to their immature immune system. It's considered the most serious complications and represents about 60% of neonatal death in Neonatal Intensive Care Unit [NICU], Tanta university hospital. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of educational intervention on nurse's performance to control infection at neonatal intensive care unit, Tanta University Hospital. The sample was consisted of all nurses working in the unit and all high risk neonate who were admitted over a period of 3 months. Two tools were used to collect data. Checklist for nurse's performance and health assessment sheet for high risk neonate. The result shows that, before intervention 70.49% of nurses had unsatisfactory grade, while after intervention two-thirds of them [63.39%] were good and 21.31% of nurses were satisfactory in their performance. This difference was statistically significant [P< 0.05]. According to condition on discharge, it was found that 76% of study group improved, compared to 60% of control group. Risk of infection can be controlled, if the health team and other workers have understood the principles and methods of controlling infection. Nurses at NICU need pre service as wells in-service educational program to refresh their knowledge and improve their skills

Effect of internship year on leadership quality of graduated nurses in Tanta University

This study assessed the change in leadership quality of nurses after their internship year. Using a leadership quality scale a pretest was given to 95 nurses before beginning of internship year. The post-test was given to 70 nurses of the same group during the last two weeks of this year. A difference was noticed in the levels of leadership quality after the internship year, but this difference is not significant. A suitable program must be planned to achieve a good quality for internship year graduated nurses