By God willing, doctoral thesis submitted by researcher/ Maha Nafady Abd-Alhafez- Assistant Lecturer, Department of Medical-Surgical Nursing , Faculty of Nursing, Assiut University- will be discussed on Saturday, 7/9/2019, at 11:00 a.m., at the conference hall of the college. Thesis Title: " Thoracoscopic surgery: effect of designing and implementing educational nursing protocol on patients quality of life "