Effectiveness of Nursing Administration Educational Course on Nursing Students' Self-learning Readiness.

Introduction: The inclusion of nursing administration in nursing education provides nursing students with scientific leadership and management skills to make well-founded decisions. Nurse educators have a vital role in supporting student nurses in developing nursing administration skills, accessing research products and participating in research projects related to nursing administration. This requires more innovative teaching approaches to promote active participation, creativity and critical thinking in students to increase their self-learning readiness to nursing administration. Aim: This study aimed to investigate the effectiveness of "Nursing Administration" educational course teaching nursing students' self-learning readiness. Research design: A Quasi-experimental research design was used. Setting: The study was carried out at "Technical Nursing Institute" affiliated to Faculty of Medicine for Females, Al Azhar University, which is located at Alzahraa University Hospital. Subjects: The study included 167 undergraduate nursing students. Tools of data collection: the data was collected using "Nursing Administration Knowledge Pre Post-test and Self-Directed Learning Readiness Scale. Results: The study denoted that pre teaching nursing administration course, the majority (88%) of studied nursing students had unsatisfactory knowledge level about "Nursing Administration", while post teaching the majority (93.4%) of the study sample had satisfactory knowledge level. Additionally, more than half of nursing students (61.4%) had low level of self-learning readiness pre teaching. Meanwhile, about three thirds of them (74.4%) had high level of self-learning readiness post-teaching. Conclusion: There was a highly statistically positive correlation between "Nursing Administration" educational course teaching and level of nursing students' self-learning readiness to nursing administration. Recommendations: "Educational Nursing Institutions" should ensure incorporating "Nursing Administration" course in teaching and learning process and map out strategies to create a supportive teaching learning environment to improve students' self-learning readiness to nursing administration to ensure highly qualified nursing education