Abstract
Background: Health professional requires communication skills to establish andmaintain effective helping relationships with patients and with each others. Aim: Thecurrent study aimed to assess communication skills among nurse interns' students ofTeaching Institute of Nursing during health teaching at Suez Canal UniversityHospitals. Subjects & Methods: A descriptive design was utilized to meet the aim ofthe research. The study conducted in different departments and units at Suez CanalUniversity Hospitals. All nurse interns' students (84 students) included in this study.They entered the internship program after they pass the fifth-year examination inTechnical Institute of Nursing (five-year system). The data collected by using anobservational checklist. Results: Among 84 nurse interns' students , the majority ofthem 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%) hadunsatisfactory results for the communication skills while (39.3%) of them just gotsatisfactory results, in addition to this, that most of the students did not satisfactoryresults on self-preparation and skills of verbal communication during the healtheducation process. conclusions : the majority of the nurse interns' students hadinadequate total preparation, verbal and overall communication skills. But, most ofthem have satisfactory non- verbal communication skills during health teaching with astatistical significant correlation between some of the communication skills amongnurse interns' students and their gender and residence. Recommendations: Preparingstudents to interact and create constructive communicative relationships with patientsis essential to nursing practice. In addition, the curriculum must be included verbal,and non-verbal communication skills in details and students must practice it
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