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Background: Workplace place incivility may lead to different outcomes that an increase in mental and physical stress. Aim: To assess the incivility and ostracism in the workplace among staff nurses and its relation to the quality of care. Research Design: Descriptive correlational research design was utilized. Setting: The current study was conducted at South Vally University Hospital. Subjects: A convenience sample consisted of 100 staff nurses were enrolled in the study. Tools: Three main tools were used (I) Workplace Incivility scale, (II) Workplace Ostracism Scale, and (III) Quality of Nursing Care scale. Results: In the results of the current study more than half of the nurses had a low level of workplace ostracism. The overall mean of the quality of nursing care scale was 3.14 (SD = 0.66) from a scale of 1-5 and health promotion was the lowest mean dimension (mean = 3.08, SD = 0.74). Nurse incivility exerted a multivariate effect on the overall quality of nursing care and its different dimensions. There was a low-level positive (r = 0,302; p <0, 01) statistically significant correlation between staff nurses' workplace incivility and workplace ostracism. Conclusion: General incivility and nurse incivility were found to negatively affect the quality of nursing care and its different dimensions. Recommendations: Incivility must be treated with a zero-tolerance policy by hospital administrators. Administrators at hospitals must foster a positive work environment in which civil communication is the norm and hospital standards are known and obeyed. Provide useful information to enhance the quality of nursing care by acting in incivility concerns that arise from various sources within the hospital.

Background: Nurse Interns' knowledge, practice regarding triage and adherence to preventive behaviors has been influential factors in triage decision-making at emergency units during COVID 19 Pandemic. Aim of the study: Enhancing nurse interns` knowledge and practice regarding triage at emergency units during COVID 19 pandemic. Design: A quasi experimental design was utilized in this study. Setting: Emergency Units at Benha University Hospital. Subjects: A convenient sample of 60 nurse interns. Tools for data collection: Intern Nurses` Personal Characteristics Sheet, Nurse Interns` Knowledge Questionnaire, Triage Practice Observational Checklist, COVID-19 Preventive Behavior Assessment Tool. Results: Nurse interns' knowledge, practice regarding triage was highly statistically significally improved after the program implementation. Also, their preventive behavior regarding COVID-19 level was highly statistical significant improved after the program implementation. As (72.7%) of them had poor preventive behavior level, that improved to (86.6%) had good preventive behavior level post program. Conclusion: the triage program had a significant effect on improving nurse interns' knowledge and practice of triage, and total preventative behavior regarding COVID-19 level was significantly improved after the program phase. Recommendations: Publication and dissemination of the educational guidelines in emergency department service to improve nurse interns' performance about triage corona virus patients.

Background: It is vital to increase nursing actions as patient advocates and rights among nurses. Fundamental challenges in health care are patient rights, it's to ensure excellent in medical practice, if both are aware of it, can strengthen Nurse-Patient interaction. Advocacy is widely misunderstood and phrase that has been conceptualized. This help researchers gain better grasp of patient advocacy and rights. Research aim is to see how well mental health nurses understand patient rights and advocacy. Methods and Subjects: Research was conducted in the Beni-Suef Psychiatric Hospital, in patient unit using a Descriptive research design on 150 male and female nurses. Data collected using a selfadministered scale with Knowledge of nursing about mental patients' rights and Mental health nurses' vision for patient advocacy. Results: nurses mean value age ranged between 23-50 years, 35.9±7.6, females 136(90.7%), 68(45.3%) with diploma degree. 92(61.3%) had 5 to10 years of psychiatric nursing experience, 137(91.3%) have previous training in quality care. Nursing knowledge about mental patient's rights 64(42.7%) were good in knowledge, 59(39.3%) were moderate, 27(18%) were poor in knowledge. Nursing perception for patient advocacy 105(70%) were positive perception, 25(16.7%) were neutral perception and 20(13.3%) were negative perception. Statistically significant relation between work data and nursing perception for patient advocacy (P < 0.05). Conclusion and recommendations: Mental health nurses had satisfactory knowledge about patient advocacy and about half of them had good knowledge regarding patient rights. Further research is suggested to create awareness of nursing staff about importance of psychiatric patient's advocacy and patients' rights

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