Background: Effective communication is a skill needed by all healthcare professionals, but not all are naturally good at it. Aim: To assess communication skills of healthcare professionals toward their patients. Design: An exploratory mixed-method design was utilized for the current study. Setting: This study was conducted at three hospitals: one general hospital in Minia city and two university hospitals in Assuit city. Subjects: A total of 508 participants were included: 358 nurses, 100 doctors, and 50 patients. Study tool: Included three tools namely: personal data sheet, HP-CSS, and semi-structured interviews (SSIs). Results: Quantitative data indicated that nurses and physicians have high communication skills. Both have statistically significant differences in informative communication and sympathy dimensions. Nurses have high mean scores in overall HPC-SS than physicians. Degree of satisfaction patients perceived is divers between nurses and doctors. Besides the support of qualitative result to this data. Conclusion: Healthcare professionals have high communication skills, but nurses showed a difference from physicians, owing to practicing the skills in different departments. Recommendation: All health care professionals are requires training and practice about effective communication that should be based on the approach of patient-centered.

Background: Leveraging Decision Support Systems (DSS) enhances nurses' access to tacit knowledge, eventually enhancing the quality of their strategic decision-making in patient care. Aim: To investigate the nurse managers' perception about decision support systems (DSS) as a moderator affect the relationship between tacit knowledge and strategic decision quality. Design: Descriptive correlational design. Setting: 12 hospitals affiliated to Assiut University. Subject: All nurse managers (N=255) working at Assiut University Hospitals. Study tools: Tacit knowledge scale, Decision support systems scale and Strategic decisions quality scale. Results: There was a positive correlation between decision support systems, tacit knowledge and strategic decision quality. Conclusion: Decision support systems play a moderator role in enhancing the relationship between tacit knowledge and strategic decision quality. Recommendations: Conducting training programs on nurses’ abilities to leverage DSS for strategic decision-making. Applying future studies at different health care settings to generalize the results.

Background: Nursing leaders need mindfulness, which is an effective intervention for reducing stress, promoting well-being, and enhancing their leadership skills. Purpose: To explore the effect of a mindfulness training program on the well-being and leadership skills of head nurses. Methods: A quasi-study design was used and conducted in a psychiatric and neurological university hospital on a convenience sample of 40 head nurses. Using the cognitive and affective mindfulness scale, the mindful attention awareness scale, the leadership skills questionnaire, and the mindfulness program. Findings: The findings resulted in a significant difference in the effect of the mindfulness program before and after training when applied to leadership skills, especially conceptual and administrative skills. Discussion: Managers must adopt a mindfulness program, integrate it into nursing intervention protocols, and circulate it to all nursing staff because it has a noticeable impact if it is practiced seriously and its results are benefited from.

Background: Patient safety is the core indicator of nursing quality. Nursing competency abilities required for performing one’s role as a nurse with knowledge, attitudes and skills. Aim: The study aimed to determine the effectiveness of educational program for nurses about patient safety values, attitudes and competency. Design: A quasi-experimental design. Setting: Intensive care and emergency units at Main Assiut University Hospital. Study subjects: Nurses working in intensive care and emergency units with experience less than one year (No= 55). Study tools: Data were gathered through four tools namely (1): Personal & job characteristics, (2): Patient Safety Value Questionnaire, (3): Patient Safety Attitudes Questionnaire, and (4): Health Professional Education in Patient Safety Survey Results: There were highly statistically significant differences between pre, post &follow up of the program related to nurses' knowledge about patient safety values, attitudes and competency. Conclusion: There were marked improvements in nurses' knowledge regarding patient safety value, attitude and competence immediately after implementation of the educational program. Recommendation: Implement of patient safety culture in healthcare organization according to policies, guidelines, and protocols.