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Abstract
Today nursing has the opportunity to shape the future of health care. Nurses are creating partnerships with physicians and other health care professionals. Nursing is a stressful profession where the nursing students are facing complex problems with patients, colleagues and administration instructors and also the stressful environment. Therefore, nursing students need to be empowered with high self-concept and high self-esteem to deal in successful manner. Nursing students who feel good about themselves are confident, and demonstrate respect and concern for patients and colleagues. It has been suggested that the roots for building high self-esteem may lie in the educational process, during socialization in nursing education; the student acquires a concept of self as a nurse. Therefore, having a feeling of self-confidence and self-worth are the basic to develop leadership skills for nursing graduates. A positive self image and hence professional identity are the prerequisite for the nurses to have a strong relationship with patient; nurses can develop a more positive self-image through career advancement and advanced education in the advanced learning environment either physical or psychological environment.
Aim of the study:
The aim of this study was to determine relationship between the educational environment and nursing students’ self-esteem at the Institute of Nursing, Alexandria University.
Materials and Method:
The study was conducted at the Technical Institute of Nursing, Alexandria University. The subjects of this study included 316 nursing students who were enrolled in three academic years. It included (189) students from the third year, (59) students from fourth year and (68) students from the fifth year within academic 2010-2011.
Tools of the study:
Three tools were used for data collection in this study
Tool I: Nursing students’ socio-demographic characteristics.
This tool included the students’ demographic data such as: age, sex, academic year, and socioeconomic status.
Tool II: Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale (Rosenberg, 1965):
This scale was developed by Rosenberg (1965) to measure self-esteem and was translated into Arabic which included ten statements, five statements of them are positive and the other five are negative. Responses to the statements are scored on a four points Likert scale (strongly agree, agree, disagree and strongly disagree).The scoring of strongly agree is 4 agree is 3 disagree is 2 and strongly disagree is 1, in case of negative statements, the score was reversed. The total score was divided into 3 levels as low, moderately low and high self-esteem.
Tool III: Nursing students’ educational environment questionnaire.
This tool was developed by the researcher after reviewing the related literature and was translated into Arabic.
Responses of the students were measured on a four points Likert scale ranging from 4 strongly agree to 1 strongly disagree.