Background: Non-technical skills (NTS) are social, cognitive and personal skills that can enhance staff nurses to carry out technical skills, tasks and procedures. Aim: The study aimed to assess contribution of non-technical skills on nurses' performance efficiency of nursing care process in Intensive Care Units. Design: Descriptive correlation research design was used in the study. Setting: the study was conducted at El Mahala El-kobra General Hospital which affiliated to the Ministry of Health and Population. The subjects: all (N= 200) available nurses at intensive care units who are working at the time of data collection were included in the study. Tools: Data was collected by using two tools. 1) Nurses’ performance of nursing process observational checklist. 2) Non-technical skills of nurses' questionnaire. Results: The result showed that more than two- thirds (71.0%) of nurses had satisfied level in performing total technical skills and less than two -thirds (63%) of nurses had satisfied level in total non – technical skills. Conclusion: There was significant positive correlation between overall observed nurses' technical skills and their overall non-technical skills. Recommendation: establishing specific unit policies, procedures and standards of nursing technical and nontechnical skills, conducting training programs to cover all technical and non-technical skills, and integrate non-technical skills into the nursing curriculum.
Elmohmady, E., Abo Gad, R., & Abou Ramadan, A. (2020). Contribution of Non -Technical Skills on Nurses' Performance Efficiency of Nursing Care Process in Intensive Care Units. Tanta Scientific Nursing Journal, 19(2), 127-150. doi: 10.21608/tsnj.2020.131968
MLA
Eman Abd EL Hady Elmohmady; Reda Abd El-Fatah Abo Gad; Amal Hamdy Abou Ramadan. "Contribution of Non -Technical Skills on Nurses' Performance Efficiency of Nursing Care Process in Intensive Care Units", Tanta Scientific Nursing Journal, 19, 2, 2020, 127-150. doi: 10.21608/tsnj.2020.131968
HARVARD
Elmohmady, E., Abo Gad, R., Abou Ramadan, A. (2020). 'Contribution of Non -Technical Skills on Nurses' Performance Efficiency of Nursing Care Process in Intensive Care Units', Tanta Scientific Nursing Journal, 19(2), pp. 127-150. doi: 10.21608/tsnj.2020.131968
VANCOUVER
Elmohmady, E., Abo Gad, R., Abou Ramadan, A. Contribution of Non -Technical Skills on Nurses' Performance Efficiency of Nursing Care Process in Intensive Care Units. Tanta Scientific Nursing Journal, 2020; 19(2): 127-150. doi: 10.21608/tsnj.2020.131968
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