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. The study was conducted in three private universities in Jordan, utilizing a convenience sampling technique; data were collected from a sample of 140 nursing students between January and March 2024. Results: Results showed moderate levels of AI ethical awareness, attitudes toward AI technology, anxiety to use AI, and intention-to-use AI technology among Jordanian nursing students. There are no significant differences found in the levels of AI ethical awareness, attitudes toward AI technology, anxiety to use AI, and intention-to-use AI based on gender and study year ( p < 0.01). Intention-to-use AI had a significant positive relationship with AI ethical awareness ( r = 0.521, p < 0.001), students’ attitudes toward AI (0.558, p < 0.001), and anxiety to use AI ( r = 0.407, p < 0.001). Conclusion: The need to keep pace with technological developments is urgent and crucial, especially in nursing educational institutions. The findings shed important light on the levels of behavioral intention toward AI, as well as on variables such as ethical awareness, attitudes, and anxiety about AI, and the effect of demographics on participants’ attitudes, anxiety, and intentions to use AI technology.

Background: Sleep disturbances, a public health concern that may lead to critical physiological conditions, are associated with personal characteristics such as gender. Limited evidence is available from the Middle East population on the gender disparities in sleep quality. Therefore, the current study examined gender-specific differences in sleep quality and disturbances among Jordanian citizens. Method: A cross-sectional design was used to recruit a convenient sample of 1,092 adults from different Jordanian cities. Data was collected using a self-reported questionnaire comprising the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI), which was distributed online via social media networks. The participants were categorized according to their global PSQI scores into poor (PSQI ≥ 5) and good sleepers (PSQI < 5). The analysis focused on finding differences between women and men in terms of sleep quality and the effects of demographic, lifestyle, and socioeconomic factors on reported sleep problems. Results: Women were revealed to have a higher prevalence of all types of sleep disturbances than men. Women who were over 55 (compared to younger than 20 years), did not smoke, had multiple jobs or part-time employment (compared to unemployed women), and had a monthly income of more than 500 JD (compared to those with an income of < 500 JD) were less likely to experience poor sleep than other women. In contrast, men who neither smoked nor drank coffee, ate no sweets or only one to two pieces daily (compared to participants who ate more than two pieces daily), and worked fixed night shifts (compared to alternating shifts workers) were less likely to experience poor sleep than other men. Conclusion: This study builds a more nuanced understanding of how different demographic, lifestyle, and socioeconomic factors - such as a participant’s age, time of working duty, income, daily sweet consumption, daily caffeine consumption, and smoking - affect the sleep quality of men and women. Thus, promoting a healthier lifestyle for both genders by modifying risk factors - such as smoking cessation, as well as reducing their intake of caffeine and sweets - is the first step toward improving their sleep quality. Further studies are needed to examine how the social role of Arabic women affects their sleep.

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. To investigate the relationship between patient safety culture and attitudes toward incident reporting among Jordanian nurses. This study employed a cross-sectional descriptive correlational design. A convenient sample of 307 registered staff nurses from Jordanian hospitals across different sectors was selected. Validated and translated questionnaires, which included the Incident Reporting Culture Questionnaire and the Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture, were used for data collection. Statistical analyses, such as descriptive and inferential statistics (including Pearson correlation, independent sample t-test, one-way ANOVA, and hierarchical regression analysis), were employed to address research questions using SPSS version 26. The findings revealed that the Patient Safety Culture (PSC) organizational learning dimension had the highest positive response rate (70.6%), while the hands-off and transition dimension had the lowest score (24.9%). Approximately 43.6% of participants reported no events in the last 12 months, whereas only 4.2% reported experiencing 12 or more events. The overall perception of patient safety was rated as ‘very good’ by 55.7% of the participants. The results from the Incident Reporting Culture Questionnaire (IRCQ) indicated a moderate overall willingness among nurses to report incidents, along with positive attitudes toward implementing lessons learned from errors and offering feedback on incident reports. Significant differences in attitudes toward incident reporting were observed based on the type of hospital (p = 0.037) and working hours (p = 0.012). Moreover, significant correlations were found between Patient Safety Culture dimensions and Incident Reporting Culture Questionnaire dimensions. The most robust positive correlation was observed between the feedback and communication about errors dimension in Patient Safety Culture and the learning from errors dimension in Incident Reporting Culture Questionnaire (r = 0.401, p = 0.000). Through hierarchical multiple regression analysis, it was demonstrated that Patient Safety Culture significantly predicted attitudes toward incident reporting (β = 0.441, p < 0.001), while controlling for demographic variables. This study discovered a positive correlation between patient safety culture and attitudes toward incident reporting among Jordanian nurses. Enhancing patient safety culture and adopting non-punitive measures can effectively improve incident reporting behavior within healthcare settings.

Aim: The aim of the study was to examine the effect of perceived organizational support, accountability and nurses' characteristics on missed nursing care under the impact of COVID‐19.Design: A cross‐sectional design was used to describe and predict nurses' characteristics.Methods: A sample of 536 Registered Nurses participated in the study from eight hospitals in different health sectors in Jordan (three public hospitals, three private hospitals and two teaching hospitals).Results: Communication problems had the highest impact on missed nursing care, compared with labour resources and material resources reasons. Higher patient: nurse ratio aggravated by COVID‐19 pandemic, years of experience, satisfaction with the income, perception of accountability and organizational support were among the factors associated with the levels of missed nursing care.

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%. Results: The overall patient safety culture was (71.9%). Moreover, the results of the current study revealed that there were no statistically significant differences between the perceptions of nurses in accredited and non-accredited hospitals in terms of perceptions of patient safety culture. Conclusion: The current study will add new knowledge about nurses’ perceptions of patient safety culture in both accredited and non-accredited hospitals in Jordan which in turn will provide valid evidence to healthcare stakeholders if the accreditation status positively affects the nurses’ perceptions of patient safety culture or not. Continuous evaluation of the accreditation application needs to be carried out to improve healthcare services as well as quality and patient safety.

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. Nurses working in major governmental hospitals in Jordan were conveniently recruited to complete an online self-administered questionnaire, which included the following tools: Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture and Negative Behaviours in Healthcare (NBHC) Survey. The survey was designed to measure attitudes and perceptions on patient safety culture at multiple levels of a healthcare organization with ten dimensions. The Negative Behaviours in Healthcare (NBHC) survey was developed as an adaptation of the Lateral Violence in Nursing Survey (LVNS) with 25 items and two open-ended questions. Results: A total of 330 nurses responded to the questionnaire. Nurses moderately perceived patient safety culture (HSOPS mean = 3.5, SD = 1.1). Low incidence of horizontal violence was claimed (mean = 2.1, SD = 1.1). However, it was associated with moderate negative correlation with patient safety culture (r = − 0.53, p < 0.001). Regression model revealed that patient safety culture explained an additional 53% of the variance of horizontal violence after controlling the effects of age and length of clinical experience (R-square change: 0.560, SE: 19.7, P: 0.001, CI: 1.21– 1.57). Conclusion: Despite its low incidence, patient safety culture was found influential to the horizontal violence based on the perspectives of nurses in Jordan. Patient safety culture can be incorporated with other factors that contribute to the development of horizontal violence in nursing workplace.