Mortality, Intensive Care Unit Admission, and Intubation among Hospitalized Patients with COVID-19: A One-Year Retrospective Study in Jordan.

COVID-19 is a public health crisis that has caused numerous deaths, necessitated an increased number of hospital admissions, and led to extended inpatient stays. This study aimed to identify the factors associated with COVID-19 mortality, intensive care unit admission, intubation, and length of hospital stay among Jordanian patients. This was a one-year retrospective study of 745 COVID-19 patients admitted to Jordan University Hospital.

Using Real-Time, Partially Automated Interactive System to Interpret Patient's Data; Helping The Patient To Achieve Diabetic Self-Management: A Rapid Literature Review.

Background: Diabetes is an endocrine chronic condition with a high prevalence rate among the population that needs a complex management process. However, many advanced health care technologies were evolving to help patients achieve their centered care and self-management using real-time proactive techniques through interactive systems to detect early complications and prevent them. The purpose of the current review is to assess the findings of literature reviews of the main interventions that used a real-time partially automated interactive systems to interpret patient's data including biological information, exercise, and dietary content calculated from a message sent by the patient and respond with actionable findings, helping patients to achieve diabetes self-management.

The Arabic Version of the Impact of Event Scale-Revised: Psychometric Evaluation among Psychiatric Patients and the General Public within the Context of COVID-19 Outbreak and Quarantine as Collective Traumatic Events.

The Coronavirus Disease-19 (COVID-19) pandemic has provoked the development of negative emotions in almost all societies since it first broke out in late 2019. The Impact of Event Scale-Revised (IES-R) is widely used to capture emotions, thoughts, and behaviors evoked by traumatic events, including COVID-19 as a collective and persistent traumatic event. However, there is less agreement on the structure of the IES-R, signifying a need for further investigation.

Medical device related pressure ulcers in Jordan: Prevalence study among critically ill patients.

Background: Medical device-related pressure ulcers are increasingly common in critical care units. These ulcers can be complicated due to the necessity of the device for diagnosis or treatment.

Purpose: To determine the prevalence of and risk for medical device-related pressure ulcers in critical care units in Jordan in addition to identifying the preventive measures for those ulcers as well as identifying the most frequently used medical devices that cause ulcers and to assess the relationships between prevention measures and developing ulcers.

Systematic review and meta-analysis: Prevalence of hypertension among adolescents in the Arab countries.

Problem: Hypertension (HTN) is one of the non-communicable diseases which prevalence is rising in both developed and developing countries. There is a scarcity of data on the prevalence of HTN in Arab countries. This review outlines what is currently known about prevalence and risk factors of HTN in adolescence in Arab world.

Perception and predictors of school climate among Jordanian adolescents.

Background: School climate has great effects on adolescents' outcomes. It offers possible protective or harmful sets of factors that have significant contributions to adolescents' health, development, and academic outcomes.

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to investigate adolescents' perception of school climate and its predictors.

Predictors of school satisfaction among adolescents in Jordan: a cross-sectional study exploring the role of school-related variables and student demographics.

Background: Understanding factors associated with adolescents' satisfaction with school is necessary to enhance their physical and psychological well-being.

Purpose: To investigate relationships among school-related variables, demographics, and school satisfaction and identify factors that predict school satisfaction among adolescents.

Methods: A cross-sectional descriptive design was used to recruit 1,200 Jordanian students aged 11-16 years.

Outcomes of a diabetes education program for registered nurses caring for individuals with diabetes.

Background: Nurses from various setting lack sufficient knowledge about diabetes and diabetes management. Better understand of evidence-based practices by nurses who are involved in caring for hospitalized individuals with diabetes can positively influence care outcomes.

Method: A pretest design was used to evaluate the effectiveness of a diabetes education program for RNs working voluntarily participated.

Pressure ulcer prevention and treatment knowledge of Jordanian nurses.

Aims: The aims of the study were to determine: (1) Jordanian nurses' level of knowledge of pressure ulcer prevention and treatment of hospitalized patients based on guidelines for pressure ulcer prevention and treatment. (2) Frequency of utilization of pressure ulcer prevention and treatment interventions in clinical practice. (3) Variables that are associated with nurses' utilization of pressure ulcer prevention and treatment interventions.

Evaluating the effectiveness of a clinical preceptorship program for registered nurses in jordan.

Purpose: The authors implemented and evaluated a preceptor training program to prepare registered nurses to become preceptors and to establish a nursing preceptor training program to promote knowledge of preceptorship among Jordanian nurses.

Methods: A true experimental design was used. The sample consisted of 68 registered nurses recruited randomly from governmental, private, and university hospitals.

Predictors of nursing faculty members' organizational commitment in governmental universities.

Background: It is essential for all university leaders to develop and maintain an effective programme of total quality management in a climate that promotes work satisfaction and employee support.

Purpose: The purpose of the study was to investigate the relationship of faculty members' organizational commitment to their job satisfaction, perceived organizational support, job autonomy, workload, and pay.

Methods: A quantitative study, implementing a correlational research design to determine whether relationships existed between organizational commitment and job satisfaction, perceived organizational support, job autonomy, workload and pay.

The effects of undergraduate nursing student-faculty interaction outside the classroom on college grade point average.

Background: The effects of student-faculty interactions in higher education have received considerable empirical attention. However, there has been no empirical study that has examined the relation between student-faculty interaction and college grade point average.

Purpose: This is aimed at identifying the effect of nursing student-faculty interaction outside the classroom on students' semester college grade point average at a public university in Jordan.