Assessment of Senior Students’ Knowledge Concerning Nursing Diagnosis at Southern of Iraq Nursing Faculties

The aim of the study is to assess the senior students’ knowledge concerning nursing diagnosis at southern of Iraq nursing faculties, and to find out relationship between students’ knowledge with demographic characteristics (age, gender, acceptance certification in college; residency during study; monthly income and desire of admission to the faculty of nursing). A quasi experimental design was carried out at southern of Iraq nursing faculties (Misan; Thi-Qar and Basra) from 11th November, 2018 to 28th March, 2019. The instruments was constructed by the researcher for the purpose of the study. It was consisted of two parts: Part one demographic characteristics. Part two of the questionnaire was include knowledge level which include (25) question. A random sample comprised of (90) male and female students who were admission in college of nursing at fourth stage. The measurement of instrument used observes knowledge level as the following: Within low (0–0.33); moderate (0.34–0.67); and high (0.68–1.00). The study findings indicated that there were the majority of participants’ level in colleges of nursing (basra, Misan, and Thi-Qar) have moderate level of knowledge; = (0.34–0.67) for students were (66.7%), (40%), (69%)and (66.7%) respectively.