Vol 7, No 3 (2017)

Higher education in the faculties of nursing faces many academic advising challenges, including changing student demographics, advancing technologies, shrinking resources, and declining public confidence. For many years, postsecondary reform agendas have beckoned colleges and universities to focus intentionally on undergraduate learning and success to address these challenges. Aim: investigate the obstacles of academic advising and suggestion for managing these obstacles from the perspective of the academic advisors staff and college students advising. Design: Cross sectional descriptive design was utilized in this study. Tools: Three tools were used for data collection: the tool was developed and constructed by the investigator based on literature review. Results: highly statistical significant difference between students and academic advisors perception related to administrative system obstacles and suggestion for managing academic advising obstacles and no significant differences between the collage student's perceptions of administrative system obstacles and the number of academic meeting. Conclusion: The study findings conclude that there was high perception of collage students' related to administrative system obstacles, and high perception of academic advisors related to college student obstacles and high perception of cadmic advisors related to suggestion to manage the cadmic advising obstacles than students' perceptions. Recommendations: It is recommended that the faculty administration should design plans to improve the quality of academic advisors by hiring and retaining superior advising personnel and enhancing the skills of those excellent academic advisors

nursing informatics is a new specialty in Egypt. It is becoming an important and integral part of healthcare organizations, it affects nursing outcome and quality of health care. Therefore, involving informatics basic knowledge and skills within a nursing education program is recommended to meet the future challenging trends that globally affect nursing workforce. Aim of the study: To assess nursing students' perception and educational needs regarding nursing informatics and suggested course specification. Research Design: Descriptive Cross-sectional design was used in this study. Setting: The study was conducted at the Faculty of Nursing, Beni Suef University. Sample:  Convenient sample (n= 390) of nursing students from different academic levels, encountering in baccalaureate science of nursing program during academic year 2015-2016.  Tools of data collection: 1- Self administered nursing informatics perception questionnaire, 2- Nursing informatics educational needs. Results: revealed that nursing students highly perceived importance of informatics application in education  and health care mean % (90.73% and 86.86% respectively). Main educational needs of nursing informatics include: application of informatics in education, tele-medicine, ethics of informatics and hospital information system  (98.2%, 97.4%, 96.9%, and 96.4% respectively). Conclusion:   nursing students highly perceived importance of informatics application in healthcare and education. There was statistical significant difference between nursing students perception regarding nursing informatics by their academic year, students educational needs include application of informatics in education, tele-medicine, ethics of informatics and hospital information system. Recommendations: Apply suggested course specification design of nursing informatics that is based on the students educational needs, support the faculty of nursing with resources and fund to build appropriate infrastructure necessary to apply nursing informatics, provide faculty teachers with an opportunity to learn and develop skills about nursing informatics in order to prepare them to integrate this course within the curriculum and courses they teach.

Conclusions: The morning blending proposal improved the levels of dyslipidemias, since there is experimental evidence that shows the beneficial effect of this combination.

Aim of the study: The present study aimed to assess incidence ofmenstrual disorders and its effect on students'academic performance. Study design: A descriptive study was utilized.Type of sample: A convenientsample. Study subject:The study was conducted among 986 undergraduate females students enrolled on 1^st, 2^nd, 3^rd and 4^th grade. Study setting: This study was conducted at the Faculty of Nursing, Mansoura University.Tools of data collections: Fifth tools were utilized such as(structured interviewing questionnaire schedule, pictorial blood assessment shart, simple descriptive pain intensity scale, premenstrual and premenstrual dysphoric disorder questionnaire and assessment tool to determine the effect of menstrual disorders on academic performance)Results: The current study results revealed that the majority of nursing students complained fromdysmenorrhea followed by menorrhagia in more than one third of them , less than quarter of themhadsecondary amenorrheaand  more than tenth of them had premenstrual syndrome. There was a significance relation between different types of menstrual disorders and academic performance. Conclusion: This study concluded that menstrual disorders were common among students in the Faculty of Nursing which affect their academic performance in forms of lectures absence, loss of concentration and understanding, sleeping desire during lectures in addition to affecting the practical performance of the students.Recommendation:Health programs should be conducted for young women about menstrual disorders and its proper interventions to alleviate it.

Conclusions: Uterine scar dehiscence is a rare complication and its incidence is 0.82 %. In our hospital uterine scar dehiscences did not significantly affect the hospital's labor care plan in Robson group five.

Background: Since employees are a critical component of any organization, effort must put to increase perception of organization support, to make them more engaged and satisfied, which signals healthier organization and increases employee intentions to stay, which is essential in determining organization effectiveness. Aim: The present study was conducted to investigate the relationship between perceived organizational support, psychological empowerment and intention to stay among staff nurses at a selected hospital. Research Questions: 1.What is the relationship between perceived organizational support and psychological empowerment? 2.What is the relationship between psychological empowerment and staff nurses intention to stay? and 3.What is the relationship between perceived organizational support and staff nurses intention to stay?.  Research Design: A descriptive correlation design was utilized to achieve the objective of the present study. Sample: All nurses who agreed to participate in the study at the time of data collection were included. They divided as follows (118) female and (57) male. Tools: I-Perceived Organizational Support Questionnaire, developed by Eisenberger, Huntington, Hutchison and Sowa (1986), II- Psychological Empowerment Questionnaire. It was developed by (Spreitzer, 1995) and III-Intention to Stay Questionnaire, it was developed by the investigator guided by literature.  Results & Conclusion: The present study concluded that there is a statistical significant relationship between perceived organizational support and psychological empowerment, there is a statistical significant relationship between psychological empowerment and intention to stay, and there is a statistical significant relationship between perceived organizational support and intention to stay among staff nurses. Recommendations: the study recommended that Nurse Managers and hospital administrators need to consider ways to enhance both nurses’ organizational support and career success when planning a retention program for clinical nurses. Also, training programs and working opportunities might also be given to lead nurses to feel supported and facilitate their career success.

Aim of the study: To assess the impact of slow-stroke back message on anxiety level of low risk parturient mothers in the fourth stage of labor. Subjects and methods: Design: quasi-experimental design. Setting: obstetric department at Al Galaa maternity hospital. Sample: 44 low risk parturient mothers per group (study and control) fulfilling the inclusion and exclusion criteria were included in the study. Tools used: socio-demographic questionnaire, State trait anxiety inventory questionnaire, slow stroke back message. Results: About half of the experimental and control groups women`s age was between 25-30 years of age. For the experimental group about 36.4 % of the mothers had a basic education, and 70 % were housewives. The results also revealed that there was decrease in the anxiety scores throughout the study time starting from immediately at the beginning of fourth stage of labor till discharge from hospital in the study group unlike the control group whose results revealed that most women remain in the same level of anxiety (mild to moderate) 52.3% and 59% immediately after labor and before discharge respectively. Conclusion and recommendation: The findings of our study showed that slow-stroke back massage in the first few hours after birth (6-12 hrs.) reduced the mother’s anxiety level, so it is recommended to use massage in the early hours after labor to help the mother to reduce their anxiety.