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Introduction: Educational environment has a significant impact on nursing students. Aim: The study aimed to assess nursing students' perception of their educational environment at the Faculty of Nursing, Ain Shams University. Design: Descriptive study design was used. Setting: This study was conducted at Faculty of Nursing Ain Shams University. Subjects: Stratified proportionate random sample of 261 nursing students from all academic years were included in the study. Tool of data collection: Dundee Ready Educational Environment Measure (DREEM) was used to collect data for this study. Results: The study results revealed that, the total mean score of nursing students' perception of their educational environment was 137.68 out of 200 which indicates that the students" perception of the educational environment is more positive than negative. The mean scores of total students" perception subscales were 22.9±3.6/32 (71.6%) for students" academic self-perceptions, 19.5±3.3/28 (69.6%) for students" social self-perceptions, 30.6±4.4/44 (69.5%) for students" perceptions of teachers, 33.2±4.5/48 (69.2%) for students" perception of learning, and 31.2±4.8/48 (65%) for students" perception of atmosphere. There was a high statistical significance relation between total mean score perception of nursing students regarding their educational environment and their gender. Conclusion: All students perceived their learning environment "positively". However, a few problematic areas of educational environment require enhancement. Recommendation: Faculty members and courses administrators develop, implement and evaluate suitable plan for improving the weak areas to ensure a high-quality educational environment.

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is the most common chronic, non-traumatic neurological disorder afflicting young people during their peak productive ages. It affects approximately 2.5 million people worldwide, and 1.4% of all Neurology cases in Egypt. Once the disease has developed, it continues lifelong, and there is still no cure. The course of the disease can be relapsing-remitting which diminish quality of life (QOL) by interfering with the ability to work, pursue leisure activities, and carry on usual life roles. This study was aiming to assess the effect of psychosocial nursing intervention on quality of life of patient with multiple sclerosis. It was conducted on 50 cases with MS in El-Demerdash day care unit. Data were collected using: 1) Interviewing questionnaire containing the following parts A) Socio-demographic sheet. B) History of illness, C) Patient's knowledge regarding multiple sclerosis. 2) Multiple Sclerosis Quality Of Life (MSQOL-54) instrument. The result of this study showed that, there are highly statistically significant differences were found between pre-and post-intervention as regard knowledge about disease of patient with multiple sclerosis (P= .000). Additionally, there are highly statistically significant difference were found between pre-and post-intervention as regard physical health composite and mental health composite of patient with multiple sclerosis (P= .000) respectively. As well as, there is highly statistically significant difference was found between pre-and postintervention as regard total overall quality of life of patient with multiple sclerosis, (P= .002). Results concluded that the implementation of psychosocial nursing intervention had a positive effect on quality of life of patient with multiple sclerosis. Based on the results, it is recommended to incorporate non-drug therapy (psychosocial intervention) along with pharmacological therapies in MS management to improve quality of life of patients with MS.