The risk of COVID-19 infection among nurses working with COVID-19 patients.

Working with 2019 coronavirus disease (COVID-19) patients is currently considered one of the main fears and challenges that face healthcare workers (HCWs), especially nurses. This challenge can jeopardize the quality of health care services for those patients and cause a serious mental burden to HCWs. To understand and estimate the risk of COVID-19 infection among HCWs who directly serve COVID-19 patients.

The effectiveness of COPA-based training program on the infection-control competencies of newly hired healthcare professionals.

Competency-based education that relies on nurses' and healthcare professionals' needs assessment is crucial to tackling healthcare crises such as COVID-19. Strengthening the capacities of human resources by implementing customized infection control training programs is therefore mandatory. This study aims to measure the effectiveness and satisfaction of the Competency Outcomes and Performance Assessment (COPA)-based training program.

Knowledge of health care workers regarding COVID-19 pandemic response plan; A study from a university affiliated hospital in Jordan.

Background: The education and training of healthcare workers (HCWs) about pandemic response plans, infection control protocols (ICP), and precautions are critical for breaking the virus transmission chain. This study aimed to assess the knowledge of HCWs regarding the COVID-19 pandemic response plan and the ICP. Concomitantly, evaluating the effectiveness and impact of institutional measures, policies, and training programs.

Involvement of Jordanian Head Nurses' in Health Policy Development: A Cross-Sectional Study.

Background: Despite the importance of involving nurses in health policy, nurse's involvement faces many challenges. Literature showed that there is a low level of nurses' and nurse leaders' involvement in health policy development.

Aim: The aims of this study were to examine (a) the level of Jordanian head nurses' involvement in health policy development and their perceived benefits and barriers; (b) the relationships between level of knowledge, competence, and interest in health policy and the level of involvement in health policy development; and (c) the relationship between the level of self-efficacy (efficacy expectation and outcome expectation) and the level of involvement in health policy development.

Positive COVID19-PCR patients as negative controls for COVID19 antibody tests.

COVID-19 serological antibody tests are recently needed for a relatively quick, affordable, and valuable assessment of the immunity toward COVID-19 infection. Furthermore, they can help with evaluating the sufficiency of the vaccination process and its longevity. There are limitations in the current approach of choosing the positive and negative control samples for the validation of those tests.

Knowledge and compliance with standard precautions among registered nurses: A cross-sectional study.

Background: Nurses and patients are often exposed to various types of infections during their clinical practice. Knowledge and compliance with standard precautions are essential to prevent hospitals associated infections and protect patients as well as medical workers from exposure to infectious agents.

Aims: This study aimed to assess the level of knowledge, level of compliance, and associated factors toward compliance with standard precautions among registered nurses in the North of Jordan.

The lockdown may contribute to the COVID-19 cases in developing countries, different perspectives on the curfew act, a report from Jordan.

COVID -19 has driven an unprecedented challenge to the economic, social, and health aspects of human life worldwide. The daily increasing numbers of human life loss encourage us, the healthcare and public health communities, to share best practices and lessons learned to mitigate the resurgence of this pandemic. On the other hand, the pandemic itself or alternatively our policies in dealing with it has led to a dramatic loss and disastrous effects on many aspects including the food and nutritional systems and the world of work.

Missed nursing care, staffing levels, job satisfaction, and intent to leave among Jordanian nurses.

Patient safety is an important outcome for nurses who provide patient care within an environment that may increase the incidence of errors or impose them to omit care; these errors mostly happen because of staff shortage. The purpose of this study is to identify the types and reasons of "missed nursing care" among Jordanian nurses, and to examine the relationships between "missed nursing care", staffing, intent to leave, and job satisfaction. A cross-sectional descriptive design was used.

Nursing Empowerment: How Job Performance Is Affected by a Structurally Empowered Work Environment.

Objective: The purpose of this study is to investigate the level of structural empowerment and explore its relationship with job performance among nurses.

Background: Empowered nurses display more authority and an awareness of the accomplishment of their contribution to organizational goals.

Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted with a convenience sample of nurses in 4 hospitals in Jordan.

Prevalence of positive COVID-19 among asymptomatic health care workers who care patients infected with the novel coronavirus: A retrospective study.

Background: Limited information is available about COVID-19 infections among health care workers. Sensitive detection of COVID-19 cases in health care workers is crucial for hospital infection prevention policy, particularly for those who work with vulnerable patients. The aim of this study is to describe the prevalence of positive COVID-19 among asymptomatic health care workers who took care of patients with COVID-19 during the pandemic.

Large Outbreak of Coronavirus Disease among Wedding Attendees, Jordan.

In March 2020, a wedding in Jordan led to a large outbreak of coronavirus disease (COVID-19). We collected data on 350 wedding attendees, 76 who of whom developed COVID-19. Our study shows high communicability of COVID-19 and the enormous risk for severe acute respiratory syndrome 2 virus transmission during mass gatherings.

Effect of Health Care Accreditation Council survey site visit on perceived stress level among Jordanian healthcare providers.

Aim: To assess perceived stress levels among healthcare providers in public and private hospitals before and after Health Care Accreditation Council (HCAC) survey site visits.

Methods: A cross-sectional, descriptive design was used in this study. A convenience sampling technique was used to recruit study participants.

Correlating Emotional Intelligence and Job Performance Among Jordanian Hospitals' Registered Nurses.

Problem: Emotional intelligence (EI) is an ability to recognize our and others' emotions, and manage emotions in ourselves and in relationships with other people. A large body of research evidence outside nursing shows that measured (EI) abilities correlated with employee performance, motivation, and job satisfaction; and preliminary nursing research evidence shows the correlation between EI ability and nurses' clinical performance. There is less research on the EI ability of Jordanian nurses, and the present study was undertaken to address this gap.

The impact of training program on nurses' attitudes toward workplace violence in Jordan.

Background: Nurses' attitudes toward workplace violence are still inadequately explored, and possess an impact in preventing, and managing the violent incidents and the quality of nursing care. Creating a demand for an effective intervention program to improve nurses' knowledge of and attitudes toward workplace violence.

Objective: To study the impact of the training program on nurses' attitudes toward workplace violence in a military hospital in Jordan.

The impact of educational interventions for nurses on mechanically ventilated patients' outcomes in a Jordanian university hospital (pages 2205–2214).

Aims And Objectives: To determine the effect of educational interventions for nurses on the success of weaning trials, ventilation period and reintubation incidence for mechanically ventilated patients in a Jordanian university hospital.

Background: Sharing decision between healthcare providers about weaning should be based on specific guidelines or protocols to avoid complications associated with wrong weaning estimation.

Design: A nonequivalent, pretest–post-test (quasi-experimental) study.

Work stress inventory for dental assistants: development and psychometric evaluation.

Objectives: The purposes of this study were to develop a work stress inventory for dental assistants (WSI-DA) in Jordan and examine its psychometric properties and to describe potentially stressful work-related conditions related to the profession of dental assistance in Jordan.

Methods: A total of 542 dental assistants working in private dental clinics in Jordan participated in this study. The stages of instrument development included selecting an initial item pool, choosing the best items, deciding on the questionnaire format, pretesting the instrument, and determining its reliability and validity.

Nurses' career commitment and job performance: differences across hospitals.

The interrelatedness of nurses' career commitment and job performance is debated. In nursing, few studies have focused on the relationship between the two concepts. A convenience sample of 640 registered nurses (RNs) from 24 hospitals was recruited.

Predictors of career commitment and job performance of Jordanian nurses.

Background And Aims: Few studies focused on nurses' career commitment and nurses' job performance. This research aimed at studying variables of nurses' career commitment and job performance, and assessing the relationship between the two concepts as well as their predictors.

Methods: A survey was used to collect data from a convenient sample of 640 Registered Nurses employed in 24 hospitals.

Career commitment and job performance of Jordanian nurses.

Background: Career commitment and job performance are complex phenomena that have received little attention in nursing research.

Design And Sample: A survey was used to assess nurses' career commitment and job performance, and the relationship between the two concepts. Predictors of nurses' career commitment and job performance were also studied.

Rate, causes and reporting of medication errors in Jordan: nurses' perspectives.

Aim: The aim of the study was to describe Jordanian nurses' perceptions about various issues related to medication errors.

Background: This is the first nursing study about medication errors in Jordan.

Methods: This was a descriptive study.