Background: Nurses with a higher perception of the quality of work life, job embeddedness, and organizational citizenship behavior are motivated, display good performances at work, devote themselves to their work and organization, and importantly report low turnover and personal alienation. Aim: The present study aimed to assess QNWL, job embeddedness, and OCB among nurses and investigate the associations between QNWL, job embeddedness, and OCB among nurses. Subjects and Methods: A descriptive correlational design was utilized. The study included a convenient sample of 178 nurses who were responsible for providing nursing care for patients in all inpatient units of El Mansoura international hospital. Data were collected through a self-administered questionnaire including three scales for quality of nursing work life, job embeddedness and organizational citizenship behavior. Results: The majority of nurses had a moderate level of quality of work life, whereas half of them had a moderate job embeddedness level and a high organizational citizenship behavior level. There was a statistically significant positive relationship between nurses' quality of work life, job embeddedness, and organizational citizenship behavior. Conclusion: Nurses, who had a good quality of work life, will be embedded in their jobs, and having a high organizational citizenship behavior. Recommendations: Nursing managers should develop standards for placement nurses in appropriate department/or position based on their competencies, and satisfy the needs of nurses through providing rewards, recognition, and appreciation for their efforts, and contributions.

Background Academic advising and counseling services support students in achieving their educational outcomes. Unfortunately, there is a paucity of research on academic advising and student-support systems among nursing students. Therefore, the current study aims to develop a student academic advising and counseling survey (SAACS) and measure its validity and reliability. Methods Cross-sectional design was used to collect online self-administered data from undergraduate nursing students in Egypt and Saudi Arabia. The SAACS is developed based on relevant literature and tested for content and construct validity. Results A total of 1,134 students from both sites completed the questionnaire. Students’ mean age was 20.3 ± 1.4, and the majority of them were female (81.9%), single (95.6%), and unemployed (92.3%). The content validity index (CVI) of SAACS overall score (S-CVI) is 0.989, and S-CVI/UA (universal agreement) is 0.944, which indicates excellent content validity. The overall SAACS reliability showed an excellent internal consistency with a Cronbach’s Alpha of 0.97 (95% CI: 0.966 – 0.972). Conclusions The SAACS is a valid and reliable tool for assessing students’ experience with academic advising and counseling services and can be utilized to improve those services in nursing school settings.

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Stigma is a key problem for individuals with mental illness, which is a negative label through which the community reacts adversely towards the mentally ill. Persons with mental illness may internalize mental illness stigma and experience diminished self-esteem and self-efficacy so this study aims to assess the impact of psycho-educational Program on mentally ill patient's stigma and self-esteem. It has been carried out using a quasiexperimental research design. The subjects were constituted of 50 psychotic patients divided into 25 study group and 25 control groups from in-patient Psychiatric Department of Mansoura University Hospital. In order to collect the necessary information for the study structure interview sheet was used to collect data. Data collection was conducted during the period from February 2017 to July 2017. There was a significant positive correlation between internalized stigma and externalized stigma also there was a significant negative correlation between self-esteem, internalized stigma and externalized stigma so it is important to continue stigma psycho-educational program to overcome its negative consequences.

Background:Many patients require admission to Intensive Care Unit (ICU). As many as 30% of admissions, and 90% of all critically ill patients will require at least a short period of MV. There are many risks and complications associated with prolonged MV. To minimize these risks and complications it is important that patients be weaned and extubated from MV at the earliest possible time. However, just as delayed weaning and extubation carries the risk of complications, premature extubation and subsequent reintubation should be avoided where possible,. Weaning is the transition from ventilatory support to spontaneous breathing and can often be achieved easily, but may be difficult in up to 25% of patients. Numerous studies have shown the benefit of know level of critical care nurses knowledge and practices regarding weaning of patients from mechanical ventilation, for effective participation in weaning process and decreasing MV days and costs. Aim of this study:The aim of this study is to assess the critical care nurses knowledge and practices regarding weaning of patients from mechanical ventilation. Research design: Adescriptive design was utilizedin this study. Sample: Aconvenience sample of that including 50 ICU nurses was recruited in the current study. Setting: The study was conducted at the Intensive Care Units at Emergency Hospital, Mansoura University. Tools of data collection: Two tools were utilized, tested for clarity and viability, and then used to collect data pertinent to the current: Tool I: Structure interviewer questionnaire to assess critical care nurses knowledge regarding weaning of patients from mechanical ventilation. Tool II: Critical Care Nurses practices Observational check list regarding weaning of patients from mechanical ventilation. Results:The current study revealed that, approximately two-third (67%) of the studied sample had unsatisfactory knowledge level (< 75%) with a mean total knowledge score of (43.8± 7.9). As well as, majority of studied sample (97%) had unsatisfactory performance level (< 75%) with a mean total performance score of (59.6± 5.7).Negative correlation between mean knowledge scores and mean practice scores; (r = 0.1 at p = 0.5).Conclusion: Based on the findings of the current study, it can be concluded that Critical care nurses had unsatisfactory knowledge and practices score regarding weaning of patients from mechanical ventilation. Recommendations: Provide nurses with continuous educational programs with evidence based guidelines to improve their knowledge and practices regarding weaning of patients from mechanical ventilation, Follow up nurses' practices in relation mechanical ventilation weaning, Provide nurses with periodic sessions to improve their practices regarding weaning of patients from mechanical ventilation, Establish collaborative interaction between nurses and other health team members as they are working in a multidisciplinary system to improve the health services provided to patients with mechanical ventilation.