Emotional Stability and Its' Relation with Decision Making Skills among Nursing Educators at Beni Suif Nursing Schools

Abstract

Background: In nursing career, high level of emotional intensity of the teacher's work hinders their professional development. Educators have many difficulties during their career as career decision making difficulties. So, nursing educators that high in emotional stability are more competent and report having more self-control and fewer career decision-making difficulties. Aim: the aim of this study was to assess the relation between emotional stability and decision making skills among nursing educators at Beni Suif nursing schools. Design: A descriptive design was utilized in the current study sample. Sample: (105) nursing educators working at Beni Suif nursing schools at period of data collection. Setting: Beni Suif nursing schools. Tools: three tools were formulated and tested to collect data pertinent to the study; A) Personal data sheet, B) emotional stability questionnaire sheet; C) decision making questionnaire sheet were utilized for data collection. Results: The study results revealed that, a low emotional stability score (81%) of the studied subjects, a low decision making scores of (75.2%) of the studied subjects. Conclusion: this study concluded that, there was a weak positive relation between emotional stability and decision making skills; low emotional stability level lead to low in decision making skills. Recommendations: Conduction of further studies in order to assess the relation between emotional stability and decision making skills with replication of this study on a larger probability sample from different geographical locations at the Arab Republic of Egypt, in addition to establishment of training courses to nursing educators for the development of their emotional stability and decision making skills.