Nurse Interns’ Satisfaction with Internship Training Program at Alazher University

Samira Abo Elnour Mostafa; Hemet Abd Elazeem Mostafa; Dalia Atef Khalaaf Ahmed;

Abstract


Background: Nurse interns’ satisfaction is a comprehensive term that comprises satisfaction
of nurse interns, overall internship training program and organization’s policies. Aim: This study
aimed to assess nurse interns' satisfaction with internship training program. Design: A descriptive
research design was utilized in this study. Setting: This study was carried out in Al-Azher
University Hospitals (Al-Hussien University Hospital and Elzhraa University Hospital). Subjects:
this study was conducted on 126 nurse interns. Tools: a self-administered questionnaire sheet
named internship satisfaction questionnaire Results: Three quarters of the studied nurse interns
were satisfied with all domains of internship training program, while less than one third of them
were unsatisfied as regards to the total internship satisfaction level with internship training program
Conclusion: There was positive statistically significant correlations were documented between total
internship satisfaction dimensions, as well as each dimension with studied nurse interns'
satisfaction. Recommendations: Utilization of the study finding to investigate the impact of clinical
learning environment improvement on intern nurses’ performance and their satisfaction level


Other data

Title Nurse Interns’ Satisfaction with Internship Training Program at Alazher University
Authors Samira Abo Elnour Mostafa; Hemet Abd Elazeem Mostafa; Dalia Atef Khalaaf Ahmed 
Keywords Key words: Nurse interns, Satisfaction, Internship training program.
Issue Date Feb-2020
Publisher Dalia Atef Khalaf
Journal Egyptian Journal of Health Care 
Volume 11
Issue 2
Start page 1187
End page 1199
Description 
The internship period is the first contact
where nurse interns have to face field
experience and other real clinical situations is
during the internship year. Accordingly, they
should have widespread and inclusive clinical
preparation with continuous faculty control and
appraisal. Nevertheless the nursing internship
training period is considered a traumatic time of
change over among nurse interns, they are
passing from an atmosphere of theory and
academia to one of clinical areas and practice
(Larson and Vandergrift, 2018).

Attached Files

Recommend this item

Similar Items from Core Recommender Database

Google ScholarTM

Check



Items in Ain Shams Scholar are protected by copyright, with all rights reserved, unless otherwise indicated.