Abstract: Horizontal violence is one of devastating issues as being an obstacle in developing nursing profession. Objective: To identify nurses’ perceptions toward horizontal violence in health care settings in Taif City in Saudi Arabia. Method: Quantitative descriptive correlational design was conducted on 100 nurses in selected settings in Taif city, Saudi Arabia. Results: 94% of nurse participants in this study witnessed at least one type of horizontal behaviors during their work. Findings revealed that covert behaviors were more common than overt ones. Covert acts of horizontal violence as perceived by nurse participants focuses mainly on lack of respect and communication between nurses. Fear of retaliation, fear of being ridiculed if asking questions, discouragement and job dissatisfaction were the most common effects of horizontal violence. Participants perceived that Peers including registered nurses and practitioner nurses were the most common perpetrators of horizontal violence. Conclusion: Although horizontal violence was extensively covered in nursing literature, this study demonstrated incessant existence of this problem. Horizontal violence has mischievous effects that extend from the nurse victims to the whole health care team and eventually to the patients. Developing educational programs on appropriate professional behaviors and code of nursing ethics and training courses on conflict managements for nursing staff and managers, is so effective in elimination with horizontal violence cases.

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Journal: International Journal of Science and Research 4(4)

Abstract: Tobacco use is increasing among young people, especially in Gulf nations such as Saudi Arabia, and has been predicted to cause the deaths of 10 million per year by 2020 worldwide. Objectives: Identify student's awareness, attitude and smoking practice at Taif University, Saudi Arabia, and Compare medical with non-medical sciences students', awareness, attitudes, and practices of smoking at Taif University. Methods: A cross-sectional study was carried among medical and non-medical sciences students Results: 900 students answered the questionnaire. The prevalence of smokers was 20% of the total sample, male represents 29.4% and female 11.4%. No statistical significant difference between medical and non-medical sciences students' awareness and positive attitude regard smoking. The main reasons of smoking among student are friends and medical sciences students more willing for quiet smoking than non-medical sciences students. Conclusions: no significant difference regard prevalence of smoking among medical and non-medical sciences students, believe that health professionals should receive specific training to quit smoking. Recommendation: The study revealed a critical need for integrating cessation counseling training into medical and non-medical sciences education, especially for adolescents, because this stage is critical and adolescents are more vulnerable to many negative behaviors including smoking behaviors.

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Journal: International Journal of Science and Research (IJSR)

ABSTRACT Background: Patient education programme for cardiac patients is an essential part of quality medical care today. For the diagnosis and therapeutic regimen to be beneficial, patients must be informed about their own health and motivated to share the responsibility. Aims & Objective: This study was conducted to evaluate the risk factors for myocardial infarction in Taif region, Saudi Arabia kingdom and establish a modification in the life style to decrease the incidence of cardiac diseases. Material and Methods: A hospital based cross-sectional study was conducted at governmental hospital at Taif. Thirty nine subjects admitted to Emergency department during the study period with their first episode of Acute Myocardial Infarction participated in this study. Results: A structured questionnaire was used to collect data. They were 31 (79.5%) males and 8 (20.5%) females, the majority of patients (46.2%) under the scope of this study was above the age of 50 years, 87.2% of them was married and 12.8% was divorced. the main risk factors that affect the patients in Taif region, KSA were the presence of hypertension (59%) , diabetes (35.9%), consuming a highly deep fried food (76.9%) , lack of regular exercise (89.7%) and nervous mode (79.5%). the mean knowledge score of patients recruited in this study was either low (51%) or medium score (29%), and little percentage was either high (14%) or very high (6%) knowledge score. Conclusion: It is recommended to encourage health care providers especially nurses and physicians to teach their patients about disease process, risk factors, and preventive measures during providing either medical or nursing care.

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Journal: International Journal of Medical Science and Public Health 2(2)

Abstract: Caring is considered a universal need, central concept for nursing and an important component in the delivery of nursing care. The literature is rich of previous studies that focused on perceptions of nurses toward nurse caring behaviors, but most of these studies were conducted in western communities. The purpose: identify a medical-surgical nurse's perceptions of caring behaviors among hospitals in Taif city. Method(s): A convenience sample of 90 nurses of two major hospitals in Taif city were completed the demographics questionnaire, and the Caring Behavior Assessment (CBA) questionnaire. Results: Nurse participants ranked the four items from Humanism/Faith-hope/ Sensitivity subscale as the most important caring behaviors, while three items from Helping/trust subscale had the least important caring behaviors, there is a statistical significances between demographic characteristics of nurses regarding educational qualifications and Expression of positive\negative feelings, Supportive\protective\corrective environment, and Humanism \faith-hope\sensitivity also between years of experiences and Supportive\protective\corrective environment and Expression of positive\negative feelings. Conclusions & Recommendations: This study provided evidence that nurses recognized overall caring behaviors and each individual subscales as important and the applicability of Watson's theory in Middle Eastern cultures. It is recommended to develop a more comprehensive and short quantitative tool to measure caring for future researches, studying of medical-surgical patients' perceptions of caring behaviors among hospitals in Taif city is also recommended.

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Journal: Life science Journal, 10(4)

Abstract: Palliative Care (PC) education and awareness is considered by Saudi Arabia health care system, as a matter of high priority and understanding the experiences of intensive care nurses in providing care at the end of life, is an important first step for improving terminal care in the intensive care unit Objectives: to identify nurses’ attitude, knowledge and experiences on prioritizing palliative care and assess adequacy of the palliative care content in the undergraduate nursing curriculum from teaching members' perspectives. Methods: A cross sectional quantitative survey study was conducted on 100 nurses working in selected hospitals in Taif City and faculty members in Nursing Department, Taif University. Results: Above half of nurses had poor knowledge regarding palliative care, but most of them showed positive attitude regarding end-of-life care especially above diploma degree holders. While most of the content of End-Of-Life (EOL) care in nursing educational program was perceived by faculty members as inadequate and they agreed on the importance of EOL as a part of nursing curriculum. They also perceived that the greatest barriers for improving EOL care were "Inadequate content", "No special training for end of life", and "No special governmental hospital" Conclusions: most of nurse participants' highly prioritizing need for PC training. Where reviewing for the undergraduate nursing programs regarding PC and bridging the inadequacy are mandatory Recommendations: Attention should be given towards PC by the national health policy and incorporated in the national curriculum of nurse education and training

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Journal: European Journal of Academic Essays 2(2): 90-101

Aims and objectives. To (1) identify the perceptions of Jordanian patients who suffer from coronary artery diseases towards nurse caring behaviours in critical care units; (2) identify the perceptions of Jordanian nurses who work in critical care units towards nurse caring behaviours; and (3) compare the perceptions of both patients and nurses towards nurse caring behaviours in critical care units. Background. Caring is an important concept in nursing, when nursing behaviours were perceived by patients as caring behaviours, and thus, their satisfaction with the quality of care can be improved. Therefore, it is important for nurses to be knowledgeable about the caring behaviours as perceived by patients who complained from coronary artery diseases themselves. Design. A descriptive comparative design was used. Methods. A convenience sample of 150 patients who complained from coronary artery diseases and 60 critical care unit nurses completed the demographic form and the Caring Behavior Assessment scale. Results. Patients in critical care units perceived physical and technical behaviours as most important caring behaviours, whereas nurses in critical care units perceived teaching behaviours as most important caring behaviours. Conclusion. There were significant differences between patient participants’ and nurse participants’ perceptions towards four subscales of Caring Behavior Assessment scale that should be considered when caring for patients with coronary artery diseases. Relevance to clinical practice. Patients with coronary artery diseases need well-trained and clinically competent nurses to meet their needs. ‘Spiritual needs’ was an important nurse caring behaviour that should be emphasised in nursing practice.

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Journal: Journal of Clinical Nursing, 22, 3183–3191

Objective: To compare between the autonomy of American registered nurses and the autonomy of Jordanian registered nurses regarding patient care decision and unit operation decisions. Materials and Methods: A comparative design using a survey method was used in this study employing a convenience sampling technique. Data were collected from 264 American registered nurses and 250 Jordanian registered nurses who were working in a teaching hospital in both countries. The Autonomy Scale of Blegen and her colleagues 23 was used to measure nurses’ autonomy. Results: Over all, both American and Jordanian nurses had autonomy over patient care decisions more than that over unit operation decisions (Mean= 3.75 for American nurses versus 3.50 for Jordanian nurses). The majority of differences in patient care decisions were advantageous for American nurses. However, the majority of differences in unit operation decisions were advantageous for Jordanian nurses (Mean=3.40 for Jordanian nurses versus 2.54 for American nurses). Conclusions: Nurses’ autonomy is centered on patient decision-making, which reflects client advocacy. Differences in nurses’ autonomy are related to differences in healthcare systems. In general, nurses’ autonomy is important to enhance the quality of nursing care, patients’ outcomes, and the survival of healthcare organizations.

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Journal: J Med J 2009; Vol. 43 (4):

The learning environment extends beyond the classroom, in a way, necessitating integration of computer literacy with education, establishing e-learning culture within future nursing education and facilitating life-long learning, which goes hand in hand with reshaping the future of the nursing practice. Despite the rapid integration between computers and different health care issues, studies indicated that nursing students have extremely low levels of computer literacy. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to assess the anxiety-related computer literacy rates of a few nursing students in Jordan. A convenient sample of 441 undergraduate nursing students was selected. A descriptive study utilised a self-administered questionnaire of the Arabic version of the Computer Anxiety Rating Scale and Computer Literacy Scale Data between 20 May and 30 July 2009. Study results indicated that there was a significantly negative relationship between computer anxieties and computer literacy rates. This implies the need for frequent use of computers in various educational and training activities. Frequent use of the computer would reduce computer anxiety and thus enhance computer literacy rates.

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Journal: Journal of Research in Nursing 18(1)

The study aimed is to identify the relationship between moral distress and turnover intention among critical care nurses. A convenient sample of 200 critical care nurses was surveyed by Revised Moral Distress Scale and Turnover Intention Scale as a descriptive correlational cross-sectional study at teaching university hospital located in Riyadh the capital of Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The result revealed that, critical care nurses reported a moderate level of moral distress. No significant association was indicated between moral distress intensity and frequency and nurses' turnover intention except a significant association between age (r =0 .17, P< 0.05), years of nursing experience (r = 0.19, P< 0.05), years of critical care experience (r = 0.18, P< 0.05) and turnover intention. There is a pressing need for conceptual work to generate a more vigorous understanding of moral distress in nursing practice and the relationship between moral distress and decision to leave position or nursing and the impact on patient care.

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Journal: The study aimed is to identify the relationship between moral distress and turnover intention among critical care nurses. A convenient sample of 200 critical care nurses was surveyed by Revised Moral Distress Scale and Turnover Intention Scale as a descriptive correlational cross-sectional study at teaching university hospital located in Riyadh the capital of Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The result revealed that, critical care nurses reported a moderate level of moral distress. No significant association was indicated between moral distress intensity and frequency and nurses' turnover intention except a significant association between age (r =0 .17, P< 0.05), years of nursing experience (r = 0.19, P< 0.05), years of critical care experience (r = 0.18, P< 0.05) and turnover intention. There is a pressing need for conceptual work to generate a more vigorous understanding of moral distress in nursing practice and the relationship between moral distress and decision to leave position or nursing and the impact on patient care.

Introduction: End‑of‑life care is a critical issue for pediatric population with terminal illness to ensure the best possible quality of care for them and their families. A survey was conducted to identify the barriers and facilitators to provide pediatric end‑of‑life care. Methods: A descriptive cross‑sectional study was conducted at three tertiary centers providing end‑of‑life care in Jordan. Two hundred critical care nurses were surveyed (response rate 93%). Results: Nurses reported moderate level of experience in all areas of delivering pediatric end‑of‑life care. The highest scoring of barriers respectively were patients‑families barriers having deal with angry family member; health‑care professional barriers multiple physicians, involved with one patient, who differ in opinion about the direction care, and where plan of care should go; and organizational barriers not available support person for the family. The highest scoring of facilitators respectively were of patients families facilitators having family members accept that the patient is dying; health‑care professional‑facilitators having a physician agrees about the direction of care, and organizational facilitators providing family members adequate time to be alone with the pediatric after he or she has died. Conclusion: Nurses perceived that patient‑family, health‑care professionals, and organizational related barriers and facilitators were had the most influence in providing of pediatric end‑of‑life care. Findings highlighted the need for additional education and support for pediatric staff, across professions, in providing pediatric end‑of‑life care. A pediatric end‑of‑life care team should be developed to assist in improving patients’ quality of care and increasing the awareness for the need for a standardized tool to evaluate the nursing competency level concerning pediatric end‑of‑life care.

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Journal: Indian J Palliat Care. 2017 Apr-Jun; 23(2)