effect of a psychiatric nursing course on the students ego strength

ABSTRACT

Psychiatric nursing course is one of the experience that the student at High Institute of Nursing has to go through. This course has two main objective, primarily to care for the mentally ill persons and secondary to help the student in the process of her personal development. Therefore, this article presents the effect of the psychiatric nursing course, if any, on the student's ego strength. The participants were the 4th year students who were undertaking their psychiatric nursing experience. The ego strength scale was conducted prior and after the completion of their experience. The results indicated that there is a difference of significance where t= 2.4 that is significance at 0.5%