Nijmeh m al-atiyyat

• PhD, RN
• Hashemite University

Professional autonomy is critical for nursing practice and professional development. A clear understanding of the professional autonomy concept and its applications in the real world is warranted. This paper clarified the “professional autonomy in nursing” concept using Walker and Avant’s method and the PRISMA flowchart and checklist to conduct the...

Background Currently, breast cancer is the most prevalent type of cancer affecting women, and the number of newly diagnosed cases continues to increase both in Jordan and globally. Upon receiving a cancer diagnosis, the suffering experienced by patients intensifies as they grapple with the debilitating side effects that hinder their ability to carr...

Background: Social anxiety is an emerging public health issue associated with significant impairment of social functioning during adolescence. Among many determinants of social anxiety, proneness to smartphone addiction may significantly contribute to the development of social anxiety. To cope with the consequential development of social anxiety,...

PURPOSE The purpose of this mixed-methods psychometric study was to translate and adapt the Arabic Pain Care Quality (APainCQ) Survey to Arabic and to measure the quality of pain care provided to Arab patients. PATIENTS AND METHODS This study used an iterative, mixed-methods approach that employed cognitive interviews, expert content analysis, and...

Background Authentic leadership controls quality care and the safety of patients and healthcare professionals, especially nurses. Aim This study examined the influence of nurses’ authentic leadership on the safety climate. Methods In this predictive research, 314 Jordanian nurses from various hospitals were convenience sampled for cross-sectional...

Purpose This study aims to compare nurses’ authentic leadership and perceptions of the safety climate and concepts association according to different areas of work and types of hospitals. Design/methodology/approach A cross-sectional design was used to conduct this comparative study on 314 Jordanian nurses. The Authentic Leadership Questionnaire (...

Background Previous literature has investigated the association of this phenomenon and Internet addiction. Nevertheless, little research has been conducted to elucidate the predictive associations among these concepts among students. Objective This study reported students' cyberchondria and Internet addiction, and it examined whether cyberchondria...

Background: Medication errors are detrimental to patient safety and the quality of hospital services. Purpose: The purpose of the study was to compare registered nurses working in the small-, medium-, and large-sized Jordanian hospitals' responses in terms of reported rate and cause of medication errors and their views on medication error report...

Background Ensuring that countries have adequate research capacities is essential for an effective and efficient response to infectious disease outbreaks. The need for ethical principles and values embodied in international research ethics guidelines to be upheld during public health emergencies is widely recognized. Public health officials, resear...

Background: Effective cancer pain management mandates precise attitude, assessment, skills, and knowledge. Health professionals' knowledge and attitudes concerning cancer pain management have often been referred to as insufficient. Aims: This study explored pain knowledge and attitudes of nurses working in oncology settings. Setting and partici...

Objectives: To assess the knowledge, practice, and confidence of oncology nurses toward chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy (CIPN) among patients with cancer in Jordan. Methods: Descriptive, and cross sectional study was conducted on a convenience sample of 148 Jordanian registered oncology nurses recruited from a Specialized Oncology Cente...

Purpose: To evaluate the attitudinal barriers to cancer pain management among adult Jordanian patients and to explore relationships between attitudinal barriers, pain, and demographic variables. Methods: In this descriptive correlational study a convenience sample of 150 Jordanian adults with cancer pain were recruited from the outpatient cancer...

Aim: To identify which of the examined agents or modalities were effective in the management of chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy (CIPN). Methods: PubMed, CINAHL, Medline, Science Direct and Ovid databases were used to search keywords. The literature search identified 59 potentially relevant studies; after removing duplicates and review...

Pain is one of the main symptoms involved in cancer patients receiving treatment or because of the disease itself. Approximately, 30% to 50% of cancer patients receiving treatment experience pain and 70% to 90% with advanced stages of cancer experienced moderate to severe pain. Reducing the pain and suffering of cancer patients is essential to deli...

Background: Public awareness toward palliative care is playing a very important role in demanding various palliative care resources in different countries. A comprehensive assessment of public awareness toward palliative care is needed in order to intervene appropriately according to the public needs in this matter. Purpose: To assess current level...

L’objectif de cette recension de la documentation scientifique est de faire enquête sur les méthodes les plus sécuritaires et appropriées de gestion de la neutropénie fébrile induite par la chimiothérapie. Nous avons mené notre recherche documentaire dans les grandes bases de données électroniques (PUBMED, SPRINGER et WILEY). Nous cherchions des ét...

The aim of this literature review is to investigate the safest and most appropriate actions for the management of chemotherapy-induced febrile neutropenia. A literature search was undertaken, including major computerized electronic databases (PUBMED, SPRINGER, and WILEY). All studies that discuss colony stimulating factor plus antibiotics versus an...

Purpose: The purpose of this integrative literature review is to find the association between programmed exercise and post bone marrow transplant (BMT) fatigue. Methods: Electronic data bases and journals review was conducted to look for relevant articles. The found articles were reduced to 12 articles according to specific inclusion criteria. Resu...

Roy Adaptation Model (RAM) provides knowledge and broad understanding of the person as both a physiological being in a physical world and thinking. According to RAM, the overall goal of nursing is to focus on promoting health of the individual and group by promoting adaptation in each of four adaptive modes: physiological-physical, self-concept, r...

A research critique is a careful appraisal of the strengths and weaknesses of the study. Critique of quantitative study involves an in-depth review of how each step of the research was undertaken and conducted. The ability to evaluate the quantitative design research article is a necessary skill for practitioners and researchers of all discipl...

Increasing number of breast cancer survival patient improves quality of life have high priority after survival. Women with breast cancer survival experience physical and psychological cancer-therapy-related side effect which may affect their quality of life (QOL). The purpose of this review to examine the Factor that may affect quality of life amon...

Pain is an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage, or described in terms of such damage. Cancer related pain is still permanent, and is feared as problematic worldwide. Cancer pain management is the most problematic when found in patients who have a malignant tumor, and represents the most fear...

This article describes a study aiming to identify evidence-based interventions for the prevention and management of lymphoedema. Several studies have been published on the effects of manual lymph drainage in preventing and treating lymphoedema after breast-cancer surgery. However, these studies have been inconclusive. This article aims to ascertain...

Pain is the most panic concerning symptom that found in patients who have malignant tumor, and represents the most feared consequences for patients and their families. Cancer related pain remains stay a challenge in cancer patients, their families, and oncology nurses due to lack of knowledge and assessment of pain which causes inadequate pain mana...

The purpose of this integrative literature review is to find the association between programmed exercise and nutritional support with post bone marrow transplant (BMT) fatigue. Electronic data bases and journals were conducted to look for relevant articles, the founded articles deduced to 18 articles according to specific inclusion criteria. Progra...

PURPOSE: to assess quality of life among prostate cancer patients treated with radiotherapy. PATIENT AND METHOD: integrative literature review was conducted to highlight the major side effects of radiotherapy, by a critical analysis of 15 studies recruited from ScienceDirect, MEDLINE, and CIHNAL. Sample size ranged from 70 to 985 patients, all of t...

Background: Cancer diagnosis has a significant impact not only on women, but also on their Primary caregivers. Understanding the effects of a breast cancer diagnosis on physical and mental health outcomes in caregivers is important because these variables are key components of quality of life. Quality of life is a multi-dimensional construct measur...

Background:The unique challenges of working in the field of pain management, including the need to work with cancer clients who can have very complex needs, have been identified. Purpose:To review and analyze a recent research articles that studied the experience of cancer-related pain in order to understand the factors that affect pain experience...

Theory-based nursing practice is dependent on the concept that the work of any discipline is directed by its knowledge base. The practice then is guided by the distinctive theories of that particular discipline. A nurse practitioner using process of theory-based nursing practice develops a practice proposition and a plan for schematic application o...

The purpose of this paper is to describe the development process of evidence based recommendations about weight lifting (WL) on breast cancer survivors with lymphedema related to surgical interruption of axillary lymph nodes. It provides an overview of the incidence of breast cancer, and breast cancer related-lymphedema (BCRL). Also it describes th...

The goal of this evidence based review was to assess the evidence of exercise effect on quality of life (QoL) in cancer survivors. Methods: Literature search were in: CINAHL, Science direct, Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials, PubMed, MEDLINE, EMBASE, and Google search engine. Keywords were: cancer (oncology, malignancy), exercise (spor...

"Medication errors" is a serious underreported practice issue. This is the first study in Jordan and other countries that compare medication errors between university-affiliated teaching hospitals (UATHs) and non-university-affiliated teaching hospitals (NUATHs). Survey method was used to collect data of the current study. A convenience sample of 1...

One of the factors that can influence a person's perception of the pain experience is culture. Understanding cultural similarities and differences, nurses can better prevent problems related to stereotyping, miscommunication, and interpersonal stress that lead to inadequate control of pain. Despite inconclusive and sometimes conflicting studies on...

Barriers to optimal cancer pain management exist among clinicians and patients and within the healthcare system. This article examines patient barriers to effective management of cancer pain. Unrelieved pain remains a major problem for patients with cancer and other diseases. Recommendations and guidelines for effective cancer pain management are w...

Cancer pain remains inadequately treated worldwide in up to 91% of patients. Challenges to daily activities due to cancer pain may produce maladaptation that significantly affects quality of life. Enhancing behavioral and cognitive coping are important strategies in providing holistic care for optimum pain management, potentially leading to better...