An Agreement Among Nurse Educators on Infection Prevention and Control Practices to Ensure Safe Clinical Training Post-COVID-19.

Background: Infection Prevention and Control (IPC) practices during nursing students' clinical training are based on standardized precautions. However, the spread of COVID-19 raised the need to revise these practices. We aimed in this study to assess nurse educators' agreement on items that represent precautionary guidelines, which enhance safety during clinical training of students.

Medication Administration Error Perceptions Among Critical Care Nurses: A Cross-Sectional, Descriptive Study.

Purpose: This study aimed to investigate the medication administration error perceptions among Jordanian critical care nurses.

Methods: A cross-sectional, descriptive design was used among Jordanian critical care nurses. The total number of completed questionnaires submitted for analysis was 340.

The impact of stress associated with caring for patients with COVID-19 on career decisions, resilience, and perceived self-efficacy in newly hired nurses in Jordan: A cross-sectional study.

Background And Aims: The decision to stay in nursing has been challenged by the recent coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. New nurses joined the workforce and provided care to patients with COVID-19 although they received limited training, which could have influenced their intention to stay in nursing. We aimed in this study to examine the impact of caring for patients with COVID-19 on career decisions, resilience, and perceived self-efficacy among newly hired nurses in Jordan.

Factors Influencing University Students' Acceptance to Undertake the COVID-19 Vaccine in Jordan.

Vaccines are effective measures that can mitigate the high burden of diseases. However, vaccine refusal poses serious challenges for achieving coverage for population immunity. With the availability of coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) vaccines, limited information is available about the university students' acceptability and attitudes toward COVID-19 vaccines.

Reasons for delay in seeking healthcare among women with acute coronary syndrome from rural and urban areas in Jordan.

We aimed to explore reasons for delay in seeking healthcare among women with acute coronary syndrome (ACS) for the first time from urban and rural areas in Jordan. A qualitative descriptive design was used through face-to-face interviews with 33 women. Themes that explained why women delayed seeking healthcare when experiencing ACS were: Knowledge deficit about coronary artery disease; the effect of disparity in healthcare services on women decision; and life priorities of women during the ACS attack.

Measuring the prevalence of psychological symptoms and the predictors associated with seeking counseling and psychological help among university students.

To investigate the prevalence of psychological symptoms (PS) among university students and the predictors associated with seeking counseling and psychological help among students. A total of 663 students from three Jordanian universities participated in this study. A cross-sectional, correlational design was applied.

Correlation between quality of life of cardiac patients and caregiver burden.

Background: Caregivers experience high strain related to care giving. There is increasing interest in examining the caregiver burden of cardiac patients and studying the characteristics of caregivers.

Purpose: To explore the correlation between quality of life cardiac patients and caregiver's burden.

Factors Associated with Prehospital Delay among Men and Women Newly Experiencing Acute Coronary Syndrome: A Qualitative Inquiry.

Background: Delaying seeking health care for patients with acute coronary syndrome (ACS) causes high mortality and morbidity with variations among men and women regarding reasons for this delay.

Objectives: This study explored factors associated with prehospital delay among men and women experiencing acute coronary syndrome for the first time in Jordan.

Methods: 35 men and 33 women with ACS admitted and treated at the coronary and postcoronary care units.

Coping strategies as moderating factors to compassion fatigue among critical care nurses.

Purpose: This study measured levels of compassion fatigue, burnout and satisfaction among critical care and emergency nurses. It investigated coping strategies as moderating factors and as predictors to levels of compassion fatigue.

Methods: Using a cross-sectional design, this study was conducted on 228 (84.

Measuring the Quality of Life among Head-and/or-Neck Cancer Patients with Oral Mucositis Using the Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy-General in Jordan.

Objective: Quality of life (QOL) in cancer patients can be influenced by the presence of medical conditions, such as oral mucositis (OM). There is still limited knowledge about this issue among patients in Jordan, and this could be related to the absence of research instruments testing QOL among cancer patients with OM. This study measured the QOL among cancer patients using the Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy-General (FACT-G), Arabic version.

Exploring factors that influence students' attitudes toward midwifery in Jordan: Measuring psychometric properties of a newly developed tool.

Students' professional choice to proceed in midwifery is influenced by many factors. This study validated an instrument developed to assess students' attitudes toward midwifery in Jordan. It also addressed the motivating and de-motivating factors influencing students' decision concerning joining and continuing in midwifery.

Measuring the psychometric properties of the Arabic version of the spirituality questionnaire among university students in South Jordan.

Spirituality has been recently recognized in many areas around the world as a factor influencing the general health and wellbeing on individuals. There is a scarcity addressing this issue in the Middle East, like many other regions. Perhaps one reason for this is related to the absence of instruments measuring spirituality.

Developing a tool that explores factors influencing the adoption of evidence-based principles in nursing practice in Jordan.

Aim: To measure the psychometric properties, reliability and validity of a tool that explores factors influencing the adoption of principles of evidence-based in nursing practice in Jordan.

Background: The use of principles of evidenced-based practice in nursing practice has been widely endorsed in many countries around the world; these principles have not yet been implemented in Jordan. Factors influencing the adoption of evidence-based practice in Jordanian nursing context were not identified to date.