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Teamwork is generally seen as an elfective method of providing patient care. It creates and maintains an atmosphere that will promote health through utilizing the elements that enhance its effectiveness namely: Goals and objectives, roles, relationships, communication, activities, and environment. Therefore, this study aims to investigate head nurses perceptions and performance of the elements that promote ejfective teamwork among nurses. It was conducted in all general nursing care unit: at Alexandria University Hospitals. The sample included all head nurses [N=47] working in these units. They were distributed as follow: Alexandria Main University Hospital [N=28], El-Chatby Maternity [N=8], EL-Chatby Pediatrics [N =4], EL-Hadara orthopedic and traumatology [N= 7]; orthopedic [N=6] and Psychiatric W=1]. Results revealed that no significant difference regarding head nurses perception of the importance of the teamwork elements in all the studied University Hospitals. T here was a significant difference between head nurses who were over 40 years of age and those less than 40 years in relation to perceptions of their willingness to apply the role element. No significant difference was observed in head nurses qualifications as well as years of experience in relation to their perceptions and performance of elements that promote teamwork. The environment is the only element of the Teamwork that correlated significantly with the frequency of performance in all of the University Hospitals, while no significant difference was detected between the elements of the teamwork within different surgical allied nursing units and medical allied nursing units at Alexandria University Hospitals. It was recommended that Head nurses should develop and promote effective teamwork relationships with staff nurses, create an environment that support them through trust. mutual respect, recognition, rewards and praise. Also top management should provide head nurses with support environment to motivate them to utilize the elements that promote effective teamwork in their management of the nursing units
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Gaining self-confidence as a nurse is an essential aspect of the nursing student's professional developement. The purpose of this study was to determine clinical instruction behaviours that fourth and first year nursing students perceived as important in promoting their self-confidence. One hundred and sixty senior nursing students and 122 junior nursing students in baccalaureate programme rated 17 clinical teaching behaviours as to the degree that each helped or hindered their self-confidence as nurses. Analysis of these behaviours revealed five dimensions of clinical teaching that characterized the instructor as: resource, evaluator, encourager, promoter of patient care and benevolent pesence. Behaviours contributing to the dimensions of clinical instruction other than evaluation were rated by the two groups of students as helpful in the development of their self-confidence as nurses. Students' responses to open-ended questions provided further evidence of the importance of the non-evaluation dimensions. Focusing on the evaluation to the exclusion of other aspects of clinical teaching may impede nursing students' professional development
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The purpose of this study was : [1] To determine the anxiety and depression levels of nurses working in inpatient settings, and [2] to Compare the anxiety and depression levels among nurses working in two different specialties, namely medicine and surgery; in four different governmental settings. The Population of this study consisted of 141 staff nurses working in direct patient care. A questionnaire and self -rating scale were employed for data collection. The findings demonstrated that a significant difference existed between the levels of anxiety and depression among nurses working at Ras-El-Tien and Karmoz hospitals versus the two other hospitals