Assessment of Communication Skills among Nurse Interns' Students of Technical Institute of Nursing during Health Teaching at SuezCanal University Hospitals

Abstract

Background: Health professional requires communication skills to establish and maintain effective helping relationships with patients and with each others. Aim: The current study aimed to assess communication skills among nurse interns' students of Teaching Institute of Nursing during health teaching at Suez Canal University Hospitals. Subjects & Methods: A descriptive design was utilized to meet the aim of the research. The study conducted in different departments and units at Suez Canal University Hospitals. All nurse interns' students (84 students) included in this study. They entered the internship program after they pass the fifth-year examination in Technical Institute of Nursing (five-year system). The data collected by using an observational checklist. Results: Among 84 nurse interns' students , the majority of them were female, single , less than 20 years old and live in urban areas (56.0%, 83.3%, 97.6% and 60.7%) respectively and two-thirds of respondents (60.7%) had unsatisfactory results for the communication skills while (39.3%) of them just got satisfactory results, in addition to this, that most of the students did not satisfactory results on self-preparation and skills of verbal communication during the health education process. conclusions : the majority of the nurse interns' students had inadequate total preparation, verbal and overall communication skills. But, most of them have satisfactory non-verbal communication skills during health teaching with a statistical significant correlation between some of the communication skills among nurse interns' students and their gender and residence. Recommendations: Preparing students to interact and create constructive communicative relationships with patients is essential to nursing practice. In addition, the curriculum must be included verbal, and non-verbal communication skills in details and students must practice it.