Nurses' attitude, psychological response, and compliance with infection control practices are the key to quality care and excellence in Covid-19 patient care; infection control remains one of the most costbeneficial and requires full compliance of the whole nursing team. The aim of the study was to compare and examine the nurse's attitude, psychological response, and practices compliance with infection control measures during Covid-19 outbreak. Design: Descriptive comparative research design. Sample and Setting: A convenient sample was used in the current study, which included all staff nurses (241 nurses) who working in isolation hospitals (Minia cardio-thoracic university hospital (114 nurses) and Minia fever hospital (127 nurses). Tools: Data was collected through the utilization of three tools as follow: Tool (1) Nursing attitude about Covid-19 outbreak consisted of two parts; Part I: Demographic data, Part (II): A self-administered structured attitude questionnaire; Tool (2): A selfadministered structured psychological response questionnaire, and final Tool (3): An observation practice checklist. Results: The current study revealed that 71.7% of the studied nurses working in the Minia fever hospital compared to 86.0% of the studied nurses working in the Minia cardio-thoracic university hospital had a favorable attitude toward coronavirus patients, 26.8 % compared to 100.0% of them had undisturbed psychological responses respectively and 73.2% compared to 98.2% of them had compliance regarding infection prevention practice respectively with highly statistically significant differences which P-value < 0.007, 0.0001, and 0.0001 respectively. Conclusion: Nurses in both of the two isolation hospitals had a favorable attitude toward coronavirus patients, with undisturbed psychological responses, and they had compliance regarding infection prevention practice. Recommendations: Continuous education and training for all health sectors for increasing nurses' knowledge and awareness about all waves of the Covid -19 virus.

Head nurses' emotional intelligence is important to the quality of their job, including clinical decision-making, critical thinking, evidence, and knowledge application in practice. Therefore, the professional nurse should have the ability to understand the views and needs of a wide variety of people to be motivated, supported, and satisfied. Aim: The study aims to examine the effect of head nurse's emotional intelligence training program on staff nurses' motivation and perceived organizational support. Research design: Quasi-experimental research design was utilized in this study. Setting: The study was conducted at the health insurance Hospital -Minia governorate. Subjects: A convenience sample of head nurses and staff nurses was included in the study. Tools: four tools were used in this study; emotional intelligence knowledge questionnaire, emotional intelligence self-assessment questionnaire, motivation scale, and perceived organizational support scale. Results: The total knowledge level of emotional intelligence and its subscales among head nurses were low before the program implementation; they had high level after the program implementation with statistically significant differences; also the staff nurse motivation level and perceived organizational support level was increased after implementing emotional intelligence educational program for head nurses Conclusions: an improvement in the knowledge level has been observed after the program was implemented. Recommendations: Periodical workshops and programs for first-line managers to develop their emotional intelligence competencies to be more motivated and empowered and supported for their nurses.