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Abstract There is no doubt, that teamwork is a critical element in assuring patient safety and quality of nursing care and effectiveness of nursing performance, in addition reducing of missed nursing care, The aim this study was to examine the effect of nursing teamwork on missed nursing care. A descriptive correlational study design was utilized. The present study was conducted in Emergency Sector belonging to Zagazig University Hospitals which consists of three hospitals, namely New Surgical Hospital, which has one a surgical Intensive Care Unit, Internal Medicine Hospital, which has two medical ICUs, and Emergency hospital, which has an Intensive Care Casualty Unit. Convenience sample of staff nurses (182), with minimum one year experience and have the responsibility for direct nursing care to patients. Two tools were used for data collection in the study; the first one was nursing teamwork questionnaire, this tool aimed to measure nurses’ opinion about teamwork in ICU. The second was missed nursing care questionnaire, this tool aimed to identify how frequently the elements of missed nursing care were missed and its reasons from nurses’ opinion. Results revealed that there was a negative correlation between nursing team work and missed nursing care. It is recommended that the need to invest in methods of enhancing teamwork in these settings such as teamwork training program for nurses to improve their knowledge, skills and attitude toward teamwork and promote their engagement. |