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Abstract
A nursing internship program is a system of instruction and experience coordinated within an academic setting and leading to the acquisition of the knowledge, skills, and attributes essential to the practice of professional nursing. AIM: Examine the effectiveness of the internship program in the nurse interns’ professional role at the technical nursing institutes. DESIGN: A descriptive research design was utilized. SUBJECT AND METHODS: The study was carried out on 147 nurse interns at technical nursing institutes at Damietta, two tools were used in this study; Tool I: Internship effectiveness evaluation including Part I: Nurse intern’s personal data. Part II: Nurse intern’s evaluation of the internship program, and Part III: Employer evaluation of nurse interns, Tool II: Six-dimensions scale of nursing performance. Results: 90.5% of the nurse interns were female, the total mean score of nurse interns’ evaluation of internship program effectiveness was good, the highest score was for the internship site supervisor and the lowest score was for internship environment, the nurse intern’s evaluation of professional role revealed that the interpersonal relationship/communication skills dimension had the highest percentage score of frequency, while critical care had the lowest score, a highly statistically significant relation was revealed between the internship program effectiveness and the professional role. CONCLUSION: The internship program at technical nursing institutes was effective, the professional role of the nurse interns was good, and there was a relation between the internship program effectiveness and the nurse interns’ professional role. RECOMMENDATIONS: supplies and equipment necessary for patients care should be provided for nurse interns by the health institution to enable them to apply what they learned, close supervision and monitoring are necessary to ensure proper application of the nursing skills, emphasis on the feedback about the nurse interns’ performance and their opinion about their progress should be considered to determine the strengths and weaknesses of the program, use simulation for training during class supporting with advanced models.