Background: Education is an ongoing process, providing personal and professional
stimulation to improve life. Since life is full of problems, the aim of education is to help
individuals to acquire the knowledge, skills, and attitudes necessary to overcome these
problems. Aim of Study: to assess nursing student's problem solving abilities at technical
institute of nursing. Subjects and methods: descriptive analytical study was carried out at
Al-zahra Technical Institute of Nursing affiliated to Al Azhar University. The sample
included all 83 nursing students enrolled in the fifth year during the academic year
(2017/2018). One tool were used in data collection, namely a self-administered questionnaire
to assess abilities of problem solving (PS). Results: students' age ranged between 19and 20
years. The majority of the nursing students computer abilities (79.5%) and were aware of
problem- solving (92.8%) although only 61.4% studied it. Meanwhile, 80, 7% of them stated
used PS in their personal life. Students in problem solving knowledge and skills were high
deficiency. Student's knowledge scores had significant strong positive correlation with the
skills score. Conclusion: None of the nursing students had adequate knowledge and skills of
PS. The skills score had statically significant weak positive correlation with student's GPA.
And positive correlation between nursing students' scores of knowledge and skills (r=0.907).
Recommendation: The study recommends more use of the (PS) education approach and
PBL strategy in all nursing curricula; course planners need training in developing
educational problems.