Mahmoud Taher Al Kalaldeh

• PhD
• Professor (Associate) at The University of Jordan - Aqaba Campus

While evidence of the impact of simulation in nursing education is growing, COVID-19 pandemic may carry further evaluation beyond the existing perception. To explore Jordanian nursing students' perspectives toward utilizing high-fidelity simulation learning as alternative clinical bedside training during COVID-19 pandemic. A qualitative thematic an...

Background: Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is a significant contemporary medical treatment modality for various mental disorders that have not responded to other treatments. YouTube is a valuable place to get health-related educational content that can have a big impact on patients' and their primary caregivers' behaviors and decisions. Objective:...

Background The assessment of the quality of life (QoL) among type 2 diabetic patients is associated with different factors. Evidence shows that these patients usually suffer from a lack of knowledge about the disease, inadequate self-care, and low QoL. Objective The study aimed to assess knowledge of the QoL of type 2 diabetes patients and its pos...

Trichophagia, or eating one’s own hair, commonly occurs in individuals with trichotillomania. Minimizing the symptoms of trichotillomania and trichophagia and maintaining remission can encourage them to have healthy lives. Conduct a scoping review to investigate the efficacy of using psychotherapy interventions to minimize symptoms of trichotilloma...

Background Renal insufficiency is common in adults with heart failure. Promoting heart failure self-care behaviours contributes to avoid poor prognosis of acute kidney injury. Aims To introduce a nurse-led educational program for patients with heart failure who suffer from acute kidney injury and asses its impact on patients' perception and self-c...

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...

Background Academicians, nowadays, are assuming multiple roles, including psychological support. The need to enhance academicians’ knowledge and skills related to psychological first-aid is increasing due to the significant and timely intervention that academicians might assume when their students experience traumatic events. Objective To assess t...

Background: Suicidal thoughts and behaviours (STBs) are significant public health challenges that affect a variety of individuals and communities. Despite numerous efforts to discover and refine psychotherapy treatments to minimize STBs, the efficacy of STB treatments remains unclear. Objective: Conduct a scoping review to assess the efficacy of u...

Background Self-efficacy in resuscitation is influenced by various educational models, including high-fidelity simulation (HFS). Method Sixty-two nurses who were enrolled in an Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) course using HFS were recruited for this pretest–posttest, quasi-experimental study. Self-efficacy was assessed three times—twice via t...

Aim: To examine the congruency between patient self-reporting and nurse assessment of pain in the emergency department (ED) through the use of the numerical rating scale (NRS) and visual analogue scale (VAS). Materials & methods: Patient self-reporting of pain and nurse assessments were concurrently conducted using the NRS and VAS. Results & conclu...

Background and Purpose Accreditation is viewed to enhance the total quality of healthcare. The present study aims at assessing patients' perspectives toward the quality of emergency healthcare services at different hospitals with different characteristics in Jordan. The elements of patients' perception were aligned with the conceptual framework of...

Background Severe brain attack patients demonstrate hypermetabolic state and gastrointestinal dysfunction, leading to faster onset of nutritional failure. Aim To estimate the time point where the development of nutritional failure is more probable among patients with acute brain attacks in the intensive care unit (ICU). Methods Direct bedside obs...

Aim: To explore the experiences of Jordanian nurses regarding the psychosocial care needs of children with thalassaemia and their families. Design: A descriptive phenomenological approach was employed. Methods: A purposive sampling strategy was used to select 10 nurses who had experience in caring for children with thalassaemia. Unstructured,...

Background: Assertiveness is a substantial communication style that enhances

Objective This scoping review was conducted to explore the impact of education programme on asthmatic children's knowledge of asthma, quality of life, school absenteeism, and self-management. Data sources The review was restricted to randomized controlled trials and quasi-experimental designs. Studies published in English between 2000 and 2017 wer...

Introduction Recent evidence support the use of High-fidelity simulation (HFS) among health care professional. Self-efficacy towards resuscitation competency is assumed to be influenced by HFS training that low fidelity simulation. Purpose This study aimed to examine the impact of the high-fidelity Resuscitation Simulation Training (RST) program o...

More than two million people have asthma in Saudi Arabia: 13% aged 6-10 years. Asthma is one of the most common childhood illnesses. Little has been explored about children's ability to learn more about their own asthma in Saudi Arabia. The study was designed to assess the impact of a school-based, nurse-delivered asthma health education program on...

Introduction: Sleep Quality disturbances are common among nurses especially those working in stressful situations such as emergency room. Additionally, sleep quality disturbances were found to interfere with nurses’ quality of life and work performance. No studies have found the effect of fluctuated shifts on sleep quality among nurses. Objectives:...

Background Fatigue, depression and sleep disturbance are regarded as a symptom cluster associated with pregnancy. The mediation effect of sleep disturbance on the relationship between depression on fatigue is still unclear. Objective To assess the mediation effect of sleep disturbance on the established relationship between depression and fatigue...

Objectives The objective of this study is to identify the relationship between sleep quality (SQ) and related factors among nurses working in an emergency room (ER) in Jordan. Methods A cross-sectional descriptive correlational design was employed. Data were collected from a convenient sample of nurses working in ER based on a specific inclusion c...

Background It has been identified that ineffective nurse-patient communication in the emergency department (ED) can lead to frustration, mistrust and inadequate pain management. Therefore, it is important to recognise the potential barriers to effective communication, including nurse and patient-related factors. Aim To identify what emergency nurse...

Background: Fatigue is the most reported and most distressing symptom among patients with cancer. However, no questionnaire that measures fatigue and fatigue interference with life has been translated into Arabic. Aims: This study aimed to translate and validate the Arabic version of the Brief Fatigue Inventory (BFI-A). Methods: The BFI was tr...

Purpose: This case report investigated the transactional model of stress and coping as guidance for nursing care of an adolescent patient with thalassemia. Sources used: A case study of a 15-year-old female patient with β-thalassemia major. Data were collected using patient medical records, an interview with the patient and physical examination....

Background: There is still no concrete guidance for assessing malnutrition risk in the critically ill. Nutrition Risk in the Critically Ill (NUTRIC) score is undertaken cautiously compared with other validated tools such as bioelectrical impedance analysis (BIA). This study aimed to assess the malnutrition risk in the critically ill using NUTRIC s...

Work functioning is a relatively new conceptual model developed to embrace various aspects surrounding work performance, work participation, and individual capacity. The assessment of work performance (AWP) in nursing has gained inconsistent evidence due to examining it from multidimensional aspects. This study aimed to perform the AWP in nurses wo...

Objectives: The objective of this study is to assess quality of nursing work life (QNWL) and related factors among nurses working in emergency room (ER). Methods: A cross-sectional descriptive design was employed. Data were collected from a convenient sample of nurses working in ER Eligible participants were required to complete a demographic an...

Background: Despite management of acute pain, concerns regarding pain are still prevalent in the emergency department (ED). Purpose: This study aimed to explore the factors influencing patients' pain management in a Jordanian ED. Method: Fifteen semistructured interviews (N = 15) with purposively selected patients in the ED. Results: The the...

Background: Early warning Score is a bedside track and trigger system used to facilitate early detection and management of deteriorating patients. Although emergency department nurses are the key to implement this task, their interaction and contribution to provide an estimate of patients' severities is still suboptimal and neglected. Aim: This...

Uncertainty impacts negatively on adaptation and disease outcomes. During recovery, coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) patients experience uncertainty, symptom distress, and learning needs. This study aimed to examine predictors associated with uncertainty among CABG patients. This cross-sectional correlational study recruited CABG patients conven...

Background Adolescence is a developmental stage associated with many behavioural fluctuations and health risks behaviours. In this study, various health risk behaviours among Government school students in Jordan were assessed. Methods This cross-sectional descriptive study recruited 1256 students from 20 secondary schools all over the country. Stu...

Thalassaemia major is a chronic inherited illness that requires everlasting treatment with blood transfusions and chelating drug therapies. Primary caregivers, especially mothers, encounter many challenges when dealing with their affected child. This study aimed to explore challenges facing Jordanian mothers when having a child with thalassaemia ma...

Background Patients’ suffering has been increasingly investigated by health-care researchers especially in the chronically ill. Suffering is viewed as a progressive negative consequence that associated with pain, impaired self-esteem, and social alienation. This qualitative evidence synthesis aimed to provide further insights into the application o...

Aim: To identify how implementation of nurse-led enteral nutrition (EN) guidelines influenced nurses' care delivery in an intensive care unit. Methods: This multi-centre prospective observational study introduced an educational programme for 127 nurses on evidence-based ASPEN guidelines for enteral nutrition. Pre- and post-intervention observation...

Introduction Proper nutritional assessment is strongly associated with nutritional failure and mortality in the critically ill (1-2). There is a little consensus on the appropriateness of using such nutritional in the intensive care (3-4).This study aimed to assesses the congruence between MUST and Phase angle measurement in predicting critically i...

Background: Adherence to infection control precautions (ICP) is important to reduce the transmission of healthcare-associated infections (HAIs). Aims: To determine nurses and physician's knowledge, attitude and compliance to ICPs and factors associated with reported compliance. Methods: A cross-sectional survey of nurses and physicians recruit...

Breast cancer is considered one of the main types of cancer among female worldwide and in Jordan also. Early detection of it will improve the prognosis and decrease the mortality rate also. Thus, this study was conducted to assess the predictors of breast self-examination performance among Jordanian university female students. Across-sectional desi...

Abstract Background: Health education on proper inhaler usage is the most feasible and accessible strategy to increase inhaler effectiveness. Purpose: To assess the impact of nurse-driven inhaler education on the compliance and proficiency of using inhalers among inhaler users. Methods: This single-center, quasi-experimental study included the impl...

Lack of knowledge of and inadequate self-care are the most common reasons for patients with diabetes to develop a foot ulcer. This cross-sectional study aimed to examine the knowledge and self-care practice of diabetic foot patients. A sample of 100 patients was recruited from the diabetic outpatient clinic at Port-Said Governmental Hospital. The a...

Background: The role of pain education is well established in improving knowledge and attitude towards the adherence to pain assessment and management. Methods: A brief pain education program was delivered to assess nurses' knowledge and attitude towards pain assessment and management. The "KASRP" scale was used at three phases; pre, post, and thr...

Aim To evaluate the impact of evidence-based enteral nutrition (EN) guidelines on nutritional outcomes in critically ill, mechanically ventilated patients. Methods A prospective observational study included an introductory programme for nurses on recent American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition (ASPEN) nurse-centered guidelines on EN....

PurposeTo assess the perceptions and attitudes of undergraduate nursing students toward NANDA-I nursing diagnosis.MethodsA descriptive cross-sectional design was used. A convenient sample was recruited from nursing students at Zarqa University/Jordan. Perceptions toward NANDA-I Nursing Diagnosis scale and Positions on Nursing Diagnosis scale were u...

Background: Hazardous alcohol addiction is one of the worldwide problematic issues that entail physical, social, and psychological negative consequences. Heath education was found as a key to increase patients' level of awareness of those factors triggering addiction and prohibiting alcohol quitting. Aim: To examine the effect of implementing a bri...

This study aimed to explore Jordanian nurses' perspectives on the implementation of evidence-based practice and team-working related to nutritional care in the critically ill. Poor adherence to evidence-based practice and poor collaboration may contribute to nutritional failure. Fourteen critical care nurses from three healthcare sectors in Jordan...

Introduction: Nutritional assessment is a prerequisite for nutritional delivery. Patients in intensive care suffer from under-nutrition and nutritional failure due to poor assessment. Nursing ability to early detect nutritional failure is the key for minimizing imparities in practice and attaining nutritional goals. Aim of this article is to examin...

Introduction Enteral nutrition is a pivotal strategy for nutrition in ICUs (Fulbrook et al. 2007). Nurses are keys to assess patients’ nutritional status, detect feeding-intolerance, and curtail the prospect of complications (Persenius et al., 2006; Bourgault et al., 2007). This study aimed to assess ICU nurses’ perception of their ability to asses...

Background: Hazardous alcohol addiction is one of the worldwide problematic issues that entail physical, social, and psychological negative consequences. Heath education was found as a key to increase patients' level of awareness of those factors triggering addiction and prohibiting alcohol quitting. Aim: To examine the effect of implementing a bri...

This study aimed to assess nurses' practice and perception of their knowledge and responsibility in relation to enteral nutrition (EN) in the critically ill. Poor nursing adherence to evidence-based guidelines has negative consequences leading to higher mortality rates, delayed recovery and longer length of stay. Evidence-based practice has the pot...

Background: Knowledge and attitudes of nurses toward pain management have an influence on medical judgment and patients' perception of pain control. Aim: To assess and compare oncology and non-oncology nurses' knowledge and attitudes toward pain management. Method: A cross sectional descriptive comparative design was used. Nurses were recruited con...

Abstract Background: Assertiveness is a substantial communication style that enhances successful relationships with patients, families, and colleagues. Studies confirmed that assertive individuals show higher self-worth and self-esteem. Aim: To assess the effect of assertiveness training program on Jordanian nursing students' level of assertiveness...

Background: Knowledge and attitudes of nurses toward pain management have an influence on medical judgment and patients' perception of pain control. Aim: To assess and compare oncology and non-oncology nurses' knowledge and attitudes toward pain management. Method: A cross sectional descriptive comparative design was used. Nurses were recruited con...

Roy's Adaptation Model (RAM) is one of the most common frameworks used in different nursing aspects. The application of RAM is vary from design to another based on the anticipated goals and the nature of adaptation level required for monitoring. Aim: This paper aims to critically analyze ten recent studies that use RAM as a conceptual framework to...

Introduction The aim of the study is to assess nurses' adherence to enteral nutrition evidence-based guidelines in intensive care. Methods Mixed-methods design was employed. This abstract will show the results of the survey which was concerned with the practical issues, the nursing process, and enteral nutrition complications. A cluster sample recr...