Work Environment and Socio-Demographic Factors of Psychiatric Nurses: A Cross-Sectional Study in Hospitals of Eastern Saudi Arabia.

The work environment in healthcare institutions, especially in psychiatric hospitals, plays a crucial role in shaping the experiences and efficacy of nurses' performance. This environment is influenced by various factors such as facility design, resource availability, workplace culture, support systems, and interpersonal dynamics. Understanding the intricate dynamics of the work environment in psychiatric hospitals is essential for ensuring the provision of high-quality mental healthcare services and enhancing the overall quality of life for both patients and healthcare providers, including nurses.

Perceived structural empowerment, resilience, and intent to stay among midwives and registered nurses in Saudi Arabia: a convergent parallel mixed methods study.

Background: Retaining midwives and registered nurses in the Obstetrics and Gynecology department/unit (OB/GYN) is not just a matter of organizational effectiveness and financial wellness. It's a crucial aspect of ensuring quality healthcare delivery. This study aimed to discuss the degree to which midwives and nurses in OB/GYN departments are structurally empowered, resilient, and committed to remaining at the organizations and to examine whether nurses' and midwives'sense of structural empowerment and resilience is a good predictor of their decision to stay with the organization.

Virtual Healthcare Revolution: Understanding Nurse Competencies and Roles.

Introduction: Digital healthcare, especially virtual health, has changed nurses' jobs and skills. In the evolving healthcare landscape, nurses healthcare landscape is increasingly required to have diverse competencies to navigate the world of virtual health effectively.

Objective: This study aims to qualitatively explore the role of nurses in virtual health and the competencies required to work in virtual health in Saudi Arabia, with a specific focus on SEHA virtual hospital.

Structural Empowerment, Resilience, and Intent to Stay Among Nurses and Midwives in Obstetrics and Gynecology Departments: A Phenomenological Inquiry Study in Saudi Arabia.

Introduction: Staff turnover is a major obstacle to the success of Saudi Arabia's health transformation agenda and the realization of Saudi Vision 2030. Nurses' and midwives' intentions to remain with the organization are heavily influenced by their sense of structural empowerment and resilience.

Objectives: To gain insight into the perspectives of nurses and midwives working in the Obstetrics and Gynecology departments of a selection of Saudi Arabian governmental hospitals about structural empowerment, resilience, and intentions to stay in their current positions.

Actual Scope of Nursing Practice in Saudi Ministry of Health Hospitals.

Background: Articulating a clear scope of practice for all nursing categories is essential for improving patient safety, quality of care, and nurse retention. However, this is not the case in many countries, including Saudi Arabia. This study aimed to analyze the actual scope of practice for nursing staff in Saudi Ministry of Health hospitals.

A Delphi Study on Identifying Competencies in Virtual Healthcare for Healthcare Professionals.

Background: Virtual care adoption accelerated during the COVID-19 pandemic, highlighting the need for healthcare professionals to develop relevant competencies. However, limited evidence exists on the core competencies required for quality virtual care delivery.

Objective: This study aimed to identify the critical competencies physicians, nurses, and other health professionals need for adequate virtual care provision in Saudi Arabia using a Delphi method.

Nurses' professional values scale‒three: Validation and psychometric appraisal among Saudi undergraduate student nurses.

Objectives: Since the nursing professional values have garnered attention as a principal criterion for safe‒quality nursing practice, it was measured using the Nurses Professional Values Scale‒three. We aimed to validate and ascertain the psychometric indicators of the Arabic version of the Nurses Professional Values Scale-three among Saudi student nurses.

Method: This methodological study recruited student nurses using convenience sampling from two nursing colleges at KSA.

Impact of emotional intelligence on work performance: The mediating role of occupational stress among nurses.

Introduction: An occupational stress was reported as an inhibitor of optimal performance among nurses. Emotional intelligence (EI) has emerged as a successful behavioral buffer against occupational stress and as a facilitator for better performance. This study aimed to investigate the potential relationship between nurses' EI and their work performance; and to examine the mediating role of occupational stress.

Knowledge, Attitude and Beliefs of Nurses Regarding Antibiotic use and Prevention of Antibiotic Resistance.

Introduction: Resistance to antibiotics is a threat confronting health care system worldwide. Nurses play a significant role in combating this threat.

Objectives: The present study examined the knowledge and attitude of nurses towards antibiotic use and prevention of antibiotic resistance.

Mental Health Outcomes of Healthcare Providers During COVID-19 Pandemic in Saudi Arabia: A Cross-Sectional Study.

In this descriptive cross-sectional study we aimed, to assess the level of depression, anxiety, insomnia and distress symptoms experienced by healthcare providers during the COVID-19 pandemic in Saudi Arabia. All healthcare providers currently working in different hospitals were invited to participate in this study. Data gathering started in March 2020 to May 2020.

Using action research to evaluate a nursing orientation program in a multicultural acute healthcare setting.

Objectives: Competence motivates newly employed nurses to provide high-quality care, which leads to appropriate patient care and satisfaction. A nursing orientation program can have a positive impact on new nurses who are joining healthcare organizations. The research examined the orientation program for new nurses in a multicultural setting to redesign the program.

The association between self-reported workload and perceptions of patient safety culture: A study of intensive care unit nurses.

Aim And Objective: This study aimed to examine the association between workload and patient safety culture (PSC) among intensive care unit (ICU) nurses.

Background: ICU nurses play a vital role in promoting patient safety and are essential indicators in any healthcare system including ICUs. Research studies focusing on the relationship between nursing workload and PSC among ICU nurses are limited.

Determining the effects of traditional learning approach and interactive learning activities on personal and professional factors among Saudi intern nurses.

Aim: This study determines the impact of traditional and interactive learning activities on personal and professional development among Saudi intern nurses.

Design: A comparative research design was adopted by recruiting 48 intern nurses, who were divided into two equal groups.

Methods: Data were collected through the clinical assessment tool for nursing education.

Cultural Competency Among Pediatric Registered Nurses in Saudi Arabia: A Cross-Sectional Design.

Introduction: Saudi Arabia's culturally diverse population is growing rapidly. The need for cultural competence is greatest in pediatric units where nurses provide care to children in collaboration with their parents.

Method: Nonprobability sampling of 394 nurses and cross-sectional descriptive design was used to investigate nurses' cultural competence, and to examine the relationships between the variables and participants' demographic data in pediatric units across five hospitals in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, by asking nurses to complete a self-report questionnaire.

A descriptive study to analyse the disaster preparedness among Saudi nurses through self-regulation survey.

Aim: The present study aimed to analyse the disaster preparedness among Saudi nurses through self-regulation survey.

Background: Nurses along with other healthcare professionals face difficulty in terms of management during disastrous condition. Moreover, there is a need to improve the abilities of nurses in managing disaster events by examining the disaster preparedness of nurses.

Assessing Palliative Care Knowledge Among Nurses in 2 Hospitals in Saudi Arabia.

The aims of this study were to assess the palliative care knowledge among nurses in Saudi Arabia and to identify the demographic factors influencing such knowledge. A convenience sample of 365 nurses working in 2 hospitals in Saudi Arabia was surveyed using the Palliative Care Quiz for Nursing in this cross-sectional study. The mean score of the respondents in the Palliative Care Quiz for Nursing was 8.

Predictors of Palliative Care Knowledge Among Nursing Students in Saudi Arabia: A Cross-Sectional Study.

Background: Societal aging, a concern in many countries worldwide, is increasing the demand for quality palliative care in Saudi Arabia. Nursing education is responsible for providing nursing students with high levels of knowledge and competency related to palliative care.

Purpose: The aim of this study was to investigate the predictors of palliative care knowledge among nursing students in Saudi Arabia.

Health promoting lifestyle of university students in Saudi Arabia: a cross-sectional assessment.

Background: College is a critical time where students are more prone to engage in risky health behaviors known to negatively affect well-being, such as physical inactivity, stress, and poor dietary habits. A health promoting lifestyle is an important determinant of health status and is recognized as a major factor for the maintenance and improvement of health. This study was designed to assess the health-promoting lifestyle of students in health colleges and non-health colleges in Saudi Arabia.

Perceptions of confidence among Saudi nursing interns during internship program: a cross-sectional study.

Background: Saudi nursing students are trained in theoretical and clinical nursing competencies for four years before transition to newly graduated nurses through a one-year internship program. The transition period is crucial as nursing students have low confidence without adequate clinical experience.

Objectives: Validate and culturally adapt the Arabic version of the Self-Efficacy for Clinical Evaluation Scale (SECS) and explore nursing interns perceived confidence (self-efficacy).

Quality of Life and Its Predictors Among Nursing Students in Saudi Arabia.

Purpose: This study investigated the quality of life (QOL) and its predictors among nursing students in a university in Saudi Arabia.

Design: A descriptive, cross-sectional design.

Method: A convenience sample of 175 baccalaureate nursing students from a university in Saudi Arabia was surveyed in this study.

ENHANCING CULTURALLY COMPETENT NURSING CARE IN SAUDI ARABIA.

This study examined the cultural competence of expatriate nurses using self-reported individual assessment tool, and evaluated if there was an improvement after the educational training provided by nurse educators. Utilizing the Individual Assessment of Cultural Competence tool, questionnaires were administered to nurses (n=584) before the educational training and six months thereafter. A response rate of 90% was obtained.

Advancing Nursing Practice: The Emergence of the Role of Advanced Practice Nurse in Saudi Arabia.

Background: The roots of advanced practice nursing (APN) can be traced back to the 1890s, but the nurse practitioner (NP) emerged in Western countries during the 1960s in response to the unmet healthcare needs of populations in rural areas. These early NPs utilized the medical model of care to assess, diagnose and treat. Nursing has since grown as a profession, with its own unique and distinguishable, holistic, science-based knowledge, which is complementary within the multidisciplinary team.

Ebola outbreak preparedness and preventive measures among healthcare providers in Saudi Arabia.

Introduction: As medical professionals on the front lines in the outbreaks of infectious disease like Ebola Virus Disease (EVD), healthcare providers must have sufficient knowledge, skills, and best practices to protect themselves and the public from the disease. The purpose of this study is to identify the level of awareness, attitudes and practices among healthcare workers in relation to precautionary measures to EVD.

Methodology: A total of 177 physicians and 545 nurses participated in a descriptive cross-sectional study from a tertiary government hospital in Saudi Arabia.

Patients' assessment of quality of care in public tertiary hospitals with and without accreditation: comparative cross-sectional study.

Aim: To compare patients' assessment of quality of care provided by public tertiary hospitals grouped according to accreditation status.

Background: Healthcare institutions worldwide are increasingly adopting accreditation as continuing initiative aimed at improving structures, processes and outcomes associated with quality of care. Patients being recipients of health care need to participate in assessing the quality of care they experienced while confined for therapeutic management.