Publications by authors named "Islam Ali Oweidat"

Introduction: The healthcare sector faces persistent challenges related to workforce management, including maintaining high levels of motivation and engagement among nurses. Transformational leadership is one of the primary leadership styles that has emerged as a key factor affecting nurses' motivation and work engagement. However, there is a lack of evidence on the relationship between these variables, particularly in Jordan.

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Aim: This study aims to explore the relationship between nursing informatics competencies and clinical decision-making among nurses in Jordan.

Design: A cross-sectional, descriptive-correlational design was used with a sample of 249 registered nurses from three tertiary governmental hospitals in Jordan, utilizing the Self-Assessment of Nursing Informatics Competencies Scale and the Clinical Decision-Making in Nursing Scale.

Results: Nurses reported moderate-to-high informatics competencies ( = 3.

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Objective: Integrating artificial intelligence (AI) in healthcare presents significant opportunities and challenges for nurses and other healthcare professionals. AI adoption may influence nurses' work environment and overall healthcare. This study aimed to describe the level of knowledge, attitudes, practices, and barriers of AI among nurses in Jordan and describe their influence on nurses' intent to stay in their job positions.

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Clinical leadership is vital in improving nurses' performance and healthcare services. This study examined the relationship between clinical leadership behaviors, flourishing, and extra-role behavior among nurses in Jordan. A descriptive correlational design was used, which enrolled a convenience sample of 260 registered nurses working at governmental hospitals in Jordan.

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Background: Patient safety is a primary concern in healthcare due to errors and low incident reporting rates. A strong safety culture and positive attitudes towards reporting are crucial for improving patient safety culture (PSC). Overcoming barriers and conducting research can enhance incident reporting, foster a safety culture, and improve patient outcomes.

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Nurses are essential in the upkeep, maintenance, and implementation of infection control standards and guidelines by ensuring that their practices reflect the current evidence in the prevention of infectious diseases. The study performed to measure the level of infection control practices compliance among nurses. A cross-sectional design, was performed among nurses in 3 governmental hospitals.

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Background: Organizational culture influences various aspects of service quality. This study conducted to identify the relationship between organizational culture and infection control practices among Jordanian nurses working in governmental hospitals.

Method: Using a descriptive, correlation cross-sectional design, a sample of 172 nurses was conveniently selected from three governmental hospitals.

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Background: Healthcare organizations are distinguished by intricate systems that undergo continual modifications and unpredictability. This greatly hinders the ability to estimate the exact consequences of any changes accurately. Therefore, scholars prove that strategic foresight enables leaders to anticipate future challenges and possibilities.

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Background: As artificial intelligence (AI) continues to permeate various sectors including healthcare, understanding its impact on nursing students' attitudes and intentions to use is crucial. To examine the association of AI ethical awareness, attitudes, anxiety, and intention-to-use AI technology among Jordanian nursing students.

Method: A descriptive, cross-sectional design was used.

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Objective: Nurses have a significant role in maintaining patient and healthcare safety. Thus, healthcare administrators should focus on nurse performance and create a friendly hospital work environment to ensure patient safety and healthcare quality. Limited studies have investigated the impact of nurses' demographics on nurses' error reporting practices and nurses' perceptions of the hospital work environment, especially in Jordan.

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Introduction: Physical activity is critical for health promotion and the prevention of noncommunicable illnesses, especially among teenagers. However, teenagers' active participation in physical exercise may be hampered by perceived impediments to physical activity.

Objective: This study aimed to identify the external and internal barriers to physical activities among adolescents, as well as any differences in these barriers between males and females.

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A high success rate of corneal transplants is evident. However, there is still a lack of corneal grafts available to meet demand, largely because donors are reluctant to donate. Given their critical role in future healthcare teaching and advocacy.

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Objectives: Hospitals' accreditation process is carried out to enhance the quality of hospitals' care and patient safety practices as well. The current study aimed to investigate the influence of hospitals' accreditation on patient safety culture as perceived by Jordanian hospitals among nurses.

Methods: A descriptive cross-sectional correlational survey was used for the current study, where the data were obtained from 395 nurses by convenient sampling technique who were working in 3 accredited hospitals with 254 nurses, and 3 non-accredited hospitals with 141 nurses, with a response rate of 89%.

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Objective: This study aims to identify the Jordanian nurses' perception of their disaster preparedness and core competencies.

Methods: A descriptive, cross-sectional research design was used. The data was collected via an online self-reported questionnaire using the disaster preparedness evaluation tool and the core disaster competencies tool.

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Introduction: In general, undergraduate university students in the north of Jordan have a low level of physical activity.

Objectives: To examine the physical activity level, perceived barriers and benefits to physical activity, and the contributing factors among university students in north of Jordan.

Methods: A cross-sectional study design was used, and data was collected from 235 university students through a self-reported questionnaire.

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Objective: Despite the value of undertaking patient safety culture, its association with horizontal violence in nursing workplace is still understudied. This study aimed to investigate the association between the perceived patient safety culture and its relationship with horizontal violence among nurses working in Jordan.

Methods: A cross-sectional correlational design was used.

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Background: Patient safety is a priority for all healthcare organisations. Enhancing patient safety incident reporting practices requires effective leadership behaviours at all levels in healthcare organisations.

Aim: To explore nurses' perceptions of the influence of nurse managers' leadership behaviours and organisational culture on patient safety incident reporting practices.

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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.

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