Nursing Students' Readiness for Self-Directed Learning and their Sustainable Developmental Behavior

Background: Education is a crucial mean for nursing students to grow themselves in modernsocieties. Therefore, they must possess the ability of self-directed learning which is a vitalcomponent for sustainability in nursing education. Aim: This study aimed to assess nursingstudents' readiness for self-directed learning and their sustainable developmental behavior.Subjects and Method: Design: Descriptive correlational research design used in the study.Setting: The study was conducted in Faculty of Nursing at Tanta University. Subject:Consisted of 945 nursing students of Faculty of Nursing at Tanta University. Tools: Two toolswere used to collect the data. Tool I: Nursing Students' Self-Directed Learning ReadinessScale. Tool II: Nursing Students' Sustainable Development Behavior Scale. Results: Morethan three-quarters (78.73%) of nursing students had a high level of self-directed learningreadiness. Furthermore, more than two thirds (71.75%) of nursing students had a high level ofsustainable development behavior. Conclusion: There were statistically positive correlationsbetween overall nursing students' self-directed learning readiness and their perceptionregarding sustainable development behavior. Recommendations: The nursing facultyreinforces nursing students' self-directed learning readiness and keeps the progress ofsustainable development behavior through attending workshops and training programs