Background: A senior-friendly hospital focuses on providing geriatric care through support and responds to a senior’s physical and cognitive needs and develops knowledge, skills, and attitudes of nurses and other health professionals to be fully maximum in their care. Aim: Evaluate the effect of designed nursing instructions on the knowledge and attitude of elderly Care nurses and assessment of senior-friendly Hospital criteria. Research design: One group pre-posttest quasi-experimental Setting: The study was conducted at the Cardiac and Digestive System Center in Sohag City. Sample: A simple random sample of 42 nurses was included. Data collection tools were Tool (I): Structured interview questionnaire about personal data and work-related factors. Tool (II): Knowledge assessment questionnaire. Tool (III): Multifactorial attitude of health care professionals toward older people questionnaire, Tool (IV): Senior-friendly hospital criteria checklist. Results: The mean scores of participants’ knowledge and attitude regarding elderly care had a high statistically significant difference (t = 29.806, p = 0.001) in pre- and post-training programs. More than half (59.5%) of the participant nurses precepted their hospital as a senior-friendly hospital with a strong positive significant relation between knowledge and participant nurses’ perception of senior-friendly hospital criteria (r=0.575, p=0.002). Conclusion: The application of designed nursing instructions is highly effective in improving the knowledge and attitude of nurses regarding care of elders, which enhances the hospital's chance to be a senior-friendly hospital. Recommendations Hospital managers should set a hospital policy on adherence to senior-friendly hospital criteria and training for all health professionals for providing elders’ care. Keywords: Attitude, knowledge, nursing instructions, and older, senior-friendly hospital
This study investigated the perception of machine and deep learning among academic teachingstaff at Assiut University's Faculty of Nursing. Defining machine learning as a subset of artificial intelligence and deep learning as multi-layered neural networks, the study employeda descriptive cross-sectional design. A convenience sample of teaching and assistant teachingstaff completed questionnaires about their personal and job characteristics, as well as their understanding of machine and deep learning. The results showed a significant difference inperception: The vast majority of assistant teaching staff reported satisfactory understanding, compared to more than half of teaching staff reporting unsatisfactory understanding(P=0.001). The study concluded that assistant teaching staff demonstrated a significantlyhigher level of satisfaction and understanding of machine and deep learning comparedtoteaching staff, with statistically significant differences across all measured dimensions. Theresearchers recommended implementing educational programs for professors and assistant professors to improve their knowledge of these technologies, and for educational institutions to use this information to inform hiring, training, and evaluation practices, as well as theapplication of these technologies in the teaching process.
Background: Intramedullary nailing is a common method of treatment for femoral shaft fractures. Aim: To evaluate impact of nursing rehabilitation protocol on complications and lower extremity function of intramedullary nailing of femoral shaft fractures patients. Research design: quasi-experimental research design. Setting: Trauma unit and orthopedic outpatient clinics at Assiut University Hospital. Sample: A convenient sample of one hundred patients aged 18–75 years old and from both sexes with intramedullary nails was divided into two equal groups (50 for each group). Tools: I, "A structured interview-based femoral shaft intramedullary nailing questionnaire," II, "Postoperative complications assessment questionnaire following femoral intramedullary nailing surgery," and III, "Lower Extremity Functional Scale." Results: There was a statistically significant difference between the study and the control group regarding the occurrence of some complications and the total mean score of the lower extremity functional scale during follow up periods after application of the nursing rehabilitation protocol post-intramedullary nailing (p-value = 0.001**, 0.005**, respectively). Conclusion: Nursing rehabilitation protocol has a positive effect on reducing complications and improving lower extremity function after intramedullary nailing. Recommendations: Rehabilitation protocol is recommended to be an integral part of the preoperative nursing teaching for patients undergoing intramedullary nailing surgery, and a booklet should be available at the trauma unit and orthopedic outpatient clinic as a reference. Keywords: Complications, Intramedullary Nailing, Lower Extremity Function, Rehabilitation.
Mental health nurses encounter distinctive occupational challenges that significantly influence their psychological well-being and resilience capacity. These challenges include managing patients with complex mental health conditions, navigating high-stress clinical environments, and addressing the substantial emotional demands inherent in psychiatric nursing practice. This study aimed to assess the psychological well-being and workplace resilience of nurses employed in mental health hospitals in Upper Egypt and to identify factors associated with these outcomes.