Prepared by the researcher

Dr.Yousif. M Awad - Assiss.prof.head of nursing dept. College of medicine and health profession University of Palestine

Ahmed Mosa Nemr Jouda - Primary health care.palestine Al Darage martyr center chief nurse

Democratic Arabic Center

Journal of Strategic Studies for disasters and Opportunity Management : Twelfth Issue - December 2021

A Periodical International Journal published by the "Democratic Arabic Center" Germany – Berlin.

Nationales ISSN-Zentrum für Deutschland
ISSN 2629-2572
Journal of Strategic Studies for disasters and Opportunity Management
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Abstract

Background: Employees is considered as the major element of every organization and their success and failure mainly based on their performance.  Training and development is an aspect of human resource practices that help in enhancing employees' skills, knowledge, and competence capable of improving employees' ability to perform more efficiently. The general objective of this study is to evaluate training programs and their relationships in improving the performance of nurses in terms of knowledge and skills at the primary health care clinics Gaza governorates. The study design is descriptive, analytical, cross sectional one, The selected sample size was 185 nurses who had participated in training programs and working in different governmental primary health care clinics in Gaza Strip. The study concluded that females constitute 67.6%, while males constitute 32.4% of the sample. Most of the participants were over 35 years old, 40.5%,. More than half of the participants 51.4% had a bachelor's degree in nursing, and 7.5% of the participants had a master's degree. also the study result showed that there were no statistically significant differences with regard to gender, marital status, age groups, nurses' qualifications, job title and years of experience. The results of the focus groups also showed that training programs are important to improve performance and need more attention, monitoring, support and follow-up by management. The study concluded with a set of recommendations, the most important one is that decision-makers in primary health care should pay more attention and pay more effective efforts in monitoring, and evaluating training programs.