Background Concept mapping is a teaching and learning strategy that establishes a bridge between howpeople learn knowledge and sensible learning.Aim The present study aims to explore the effect of concept mapping based learning on students' cognitivelearning levels in nursing administration course.Methods It is a quasi- experimental study. The study was conducted in faculty of nursing –Helwan University.Subjects were composed of all 4th year students (102) in faculty of nursing –Helwan University, for the academicyear 2012-2013, . Two types of Questionnaire formats were used (Students’ knowledge about conceptmapping questionnaire format and satisfaction questionnaire format) plus concept map assessment Rubricand students’ achievement test in collecting data for this study.Findings The majority of the experimental students before awareness sessions were lack knowledge aboutconcept mapping. Also, regarding applications concept map scoring rubric assignments the majority of theexperimental students had moderate score in the 1st assignment and high score in 2nd assignment. As evident,the majority of the studied students either control or experimental had low score in pre-test. While, in the posttestthe majority of experimental had high score. Most of them perceived concept mapping positively as alearning tool.Conclusion There was a high significant difference between experimental students' knowledge about conceptmapping before and after awareness sessions, concept mapping improved students’ meaningful learninglevels. Finally, most of experimental students perceived concept mapping positively.

Background: The pandemic has highlighted the crucial role of nurses in health services. Nurses work at the forefront of the healthcare system, provide infection control training, and help reduce the spread of misinformation about the pandemic. Inclusive leaders create psychological safety that improves motivation and boosts job performance. Aim: To explore the effect of nurse managers’ inclusive leadership style on nurses’ psychological distress during the COVID-19 pandemic in Egyptian hospitals. Method: This was a quasi-experimental study. The study subjects consisted of two groups: managers (171) and staff nurses (1573). The study was conducted in four hospitals (one university hospital, one private hospital, one therapeutic institution, and one health insurance hospital). Three tools were used for collecting data (Inclusive Leader Questionnaire, Nurse Managers’ Knowledge about Inclusive Leadership, and Kessler Psychological Distress Scale). Results: In total, 67.25% of staff nurses perceived their nurse managers as poor inclusive leaders, and only 12.86% perceived them as good inclusive leaders. Regarding nurse managers’ knowledge about inclusive leadership, 76.023% had unsatisfactory knowledge levels before awareness sessions, and only 7.017% had a satisfactory level compared to after awareness sessions, when the majority of them had satisfactory knowledge levels. Furthermore, before awareness sessions, staff nurses experienced mild to moderate psychological distress during the COVID-19 pandemic, and only 8.2% were severe. After awareness sessions, 58.55% of them experienced mild psychological distress, and others became well (25.8%). Conclusions: Nurse managers lack knowledge about inclusive leadership before conducting awareness sessions. The majority of staff nurses perceived their nurse managers as poor inclusive leaders. Satisfactory knowledge levels among nurse managers after awareness sessions improved nurses’ psychological distress. Finally, there were strong, statistically significant positive correlations between inclusive leadership and nurses’ psychological distress.

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Exploring the students' information, communication technology (ICT) profile and how it may affect their attitudes towards the Egyptian university digital library (EUDL) and the role of the digital library in the educational and research activities in faculties of nursing and education in Egypt is the main concern of this study. A questionnaire was distributed to students in the faculties of Nursing and Education at five Egyptian universities. A total of 4008 responses have been received and analyzed. The results showed that nursing students are more active in implementing ICT and they have positive attitudes towards the digital library. The results also revealed that the digital library played a more positive role in the Nursing faculties than faculties of Education. The study also revealed five barriers for not using the digital library by the students: the restriction of accessing EDUL as a source of information for research and education, insufficient Internet access, lack of search skills, insufficient computer labs and the cost of using the available labs. The direct implementation of this study could be in the administration level of the quality assurance programs in the studied faculties. The results of the study could also be generalized to other similar programs in the Egyptian universities.

Background: Meeting is a purposeful gathering of people, a goal oriented work session, a productive use of communal time and a cooperative group effort. Six thinking hats approach aims to encourage parallel thinking, full-spectrum thinking and to separate ego from performance.