Developing Civility behavior Guidelines for Nursing Students' and Its Effect on Classroom Engagement

Abstract

Background: Civility behavior of students is a very valuable topic in higher education. It changes the teaching and learning environment by improving both student and faculty staff engagement and has positively effect on the learning outcomes. The aim of the study: Exploring the effect of developing of civility behavior guidelines for nursing students on classroom engagement. Research design: Pre-experimental one group pretest posttest design was used in this study. Setting: The study was conducted at Faculty of Nursing –Ain Shams University. Subjects: all available nursing students (200) at 1st scholar year during the data collection period at academic year (2019-2020). Tools: Data were collected by using 3 tools Incivility in Nursing Education (INE) Questionnaire, National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE), and Observation of Student Engagement Data Sheet (OSE). Result: there was highly a statistically significant improvement in studying nursing students' knowledge about civility/engagement throughout the intervention phases regarding all civility behaviors/ engagement in the follow up phase as compared to the pre intervention phase. Conclusion: There were highly statistically significant improvement between civility behavior guidelines and nursing students of classroom engagement. Recommendations: Develop innovative teaching/ learning strategies to improve the student engagement in the classroom. and conduct the orientation for newly enrolled students should include clearly civility behavior guidelines and should be reinforced each year, and incorporate the civility into the syllabus and student guide booklet.