Aim To assess the impact of smartphone addiction on depression and self‐esteem among nursing students. Setting Faculty of Nursing. Design Cross‐sectional, survey‐based research design used in this study. Sample: Stratified random sample consists of 320 nursing students. Tools: Four tools used for data collection: personal data sheet, Hamilton rating scale of depression, smartphone addiction scale and Self‐esteem Inventory. Results About 95.8% of nursing students reported smartphone addiction, while 32.5% were pseudonormal of depression. Twenty‐eight percent of them had low self‐esteem. The study also revealed a statistically significant positive correlation between smartphone addiction and levels of depression. There was a statistically significant negative correlation between levels of depression and self‐esteem.

Context: Acculturative stress is an essential challenge of international students in a new culture. This challenge may impact their academic success, psychological wellbeing, and the educational institution's effectiveness in retaining these students. Aim: To examine the relationship between acculturative stress, self-efficacy, and assertiveness among international undergraduate nursing students. Methods: The study was conducted at the Faculty of Nursing, Cairo University. The correlational research design was used on a simple random sample consists of 135 undergraduate international nursing students. Four tools were used for data collection. They were personal data sheet, acculturative stress assessment scale, Rathus assertiveness schedule, and general self-efficacy assessment scale. Results: 47.00% of undergraduate international nursing students had a mild level of acculturative stress, 34.8% of undergraduate international nursing students were somewhat non-assertive, about half of undergraduate international nursing students had a moderate level of self-efficacy. There was a statistically significant positive correlation between self-efficacy and assertiveness. Also, there was a statistically significant negative correlation between acculturative stress and assertiveness. There was no statistically significant correlation between self-efficacy and acculturative stress. Conclusions: Undergraduate international nursing students were inclined towards experiencing acculturative stress, and near half of them exhibit a mild level. More than one-third of them were somewhat assertive, with near half of them had a high level of self-efficacy. The development of educational programs is needed to maximize assertiveness skills, self-efficacy, and reducing acculturative stress among undergraduate international nursing students.

Context: Fetal movement counting (FMC) has been proposed as a primary method of fetal surveillance especially for high-risk pregnancy. Aim: This study aimed to examine the effect of interactive training session regarding fetal movements counting on maternal outcomes among highrisk pregnant women. Methods: An experimental (pretest-posttest control group) research design was adopted. A simple random sample of 140 high-risk pregnant women was recruited. This study was conducted at the obstetrics and gynecology departments of Mansoura University Hospital, Egypt. Data were collected using two tools: structured interview schedule, and state-trait anxiety inventory. Results: the results revealed that pre-intervention, 100.0% of both the intervention and the control groups have a poor level of knowledge. While post-intervention, 90.0% of the intervention group have a high level of knowledge as compared to 100.0% of the control group have a poor level of knowledge. Regarding compliance to FMC, pre-intervention, 14.3% of the intervention group compared to 15.7% of the control group count their fetal movements. However, post-intervention, 100.0% of the intervention group count their fetal movements compared to 15.7% of the control group. Concerning anxiety, pre-intervention, 51.4% of the intervention group has a high anxiety level compared to 48.6% of the control group. While post-intervention, 87.0% of the intervention group has low anxiety level as compared to 62.9% of the control group that reported high anxiety level. Conclusions: After implementation of the training session, there is a highly statistically significant difference between the intervention and control groups regarding the level of knowledge, the compliance to FMC, and the level of anxiety (p < 0.001). Therefore, conducting such simple and effective training sessions should be encouraged and recommended for high-risk pregnant women.