Integrating sustainability development education program in nursing to challenge practice among nursing interns in health care

Abstract

Aim: This study aimed to investigate the Integrating Sustainability Development Education Program in Nursing to Challenge Practice Among Nursing Interns in Health Care. Background: The combination of sustainable development and climate change in health care delivery benefits from the apparent environmental changes. Subjects and Methods: The quasi-experimental, cross-sectional, comparative study included 160 nursing interns who completed the intervention. Both genders were assigned to Saudi (N = 80) and Egyptian nursing interns (N = 80). Data was collected using a self-administered questionnaire, which included the Sustainability Consciousness Questionnaire and the Sustainability Attitudes in Nursing Survey. Results: A statistically significant difference was found between student nurses' knowledge, attitude and behaviour during pre-intervention and post-intervention, as well as in student nurses' sustainability development dimension effectiveness after than before program implementation. Conclusion: The program had a significant effect on all sustainability development domains and a large effect on total sustainability development during post-intervention. This study recommended that educational programs can upgrade sustainability development and challenge practice levels. Implications for Nursing Management: Sustainable development is the future of management and is the next phase of management innovation. Sustainability, in the context of health care, is about progress in high-quality patient care delivery for all by promoting the three elements of sustainable development: environmental, social and financial. Nurses play a significant leadership role in addressing environmental sustainability and climate change.

Sustainability consciousness among nursing students in Egypt: a cross-sectional study

“…Thus, they might need to find it more worthy of attention. Similar results have been observed in previous studies conducted in Egypt [ 36 , 37 ]. This trend is not unique to Egypt, as studies on university students in Spain [ 53 ], Sweden [ 54 ], and India [ 49 ] have reported similar results.…”

“…Interestingly, the students in this study expressed less favorable attitudes while simultaneously demonstrating a higher level of engagement in environmentally sustainable behaviors. This finding aligns with previous studies indicating that nursing students exhibited the highest scores for sustainability behavior in the environmental dimension, followed by the social dimension, while the economic dimension received the lowest scores [ 36 , 50 ]. The complex and global nature of environmental sustainability issues, particularly those related to climate change and pollution, has received significant attention in both the global and Egyptian media.…”

“…Interestingly, the findings of the present study highlighted that more than half of the nursing students across these universities expressed a lack of familiarity with the SDGs. Although this finding differs from that of Zainordin et al (2017), who showed that 90% of students in their study were familiar with the SDGs [40], it is consistent with previous studies that revealed alarmingly low awareness levels regarding SDGs [35][36][37]41].…”

“…The extent to which nursing students become aware of sustainability remains to be determined [15,34]. While some studies have explored sustainability awareness among university students globally, more research needs to investigate and measure the SC of nursing students specifically, both on a global scale and within Egypt [32,[35][36][37][38]. Consequently, further research is essential to gain a deeper understanding of the SC of nursing students.…”

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