Abstract:
Background: Nurses intern need to possess professional behavior, critical thinking, illness and injury prevention, relationship and caring, and clinical skills competencies. Self-evaluation of their actual competency needs at the beginning of their professional practice is very important. Aim: to assess nurses intern selfevaluation of their practice competency level. Setting: The study was conducted at Tanta main University Hospital. Subjects: Sample was included 286 nursing interns during their internship year training in (7) intensive Care Units. Tool: The collection of data was achieved by using practice competency self-evaluation tool which is based on nursing practice standard. Results: The majority of nurses intern were evaluated themselves with a high competency level in dimensions of clinical skills, relationship and caring, and professional behavior competency. Conclusion: A highly significant correlation exist between each competency and others. Recommendations: It is important to promote self-evaluation for nurses intern during their internship year, periodical evaluation of the interns' competency, making feedback and enforcement of knowledge and skills is necessary.