Aim: To examine the attitudes of undergraduate Jordanian nursing students towards death and caring for dying patients.Design: A cross‐sectional correlational design.Methods: The Frommelt Attitude Toward Care of the Dying and Death Attitude Profile‐Revised scales were used in this study with a convenience sample of 555 students from nursing schools in Jordan.Results: Nursing students had positive attitudes towards death (M = 153.7, SD = 21.5) and a positive attitude towards caring for dying patients (M = 98.1, SD = 9.2). Fear of death, escape acceptance and death avoidance were significant negative predictors, while neutral acceptance, higher academic level and female gender were significant positive predictors of caring for dying patients (F = 4.5).Conclusion: Nursing students had positive attitudes towards caring for dying patients that was influenced by university type, academic level and gender. Nursing education must further focus on death, dying and end‐of‐life care across the core courses of nursing curricula, theory and practicum.

Purpose: To describe the perceived level of information competency among nursing students in Jordan.Design/methodology/approach: Cross sectional-correlational design was utilized. Data were collected using an electronic self-administered questionnaire from graduate and undergraduate nursing students in Jordan.Findings: Nursing students showed a moderate mean total score of information competency (184.11 out of 280, SD = 22.92). Among information competency subscales, using the information technologies subscale had the highest mean score, while information from the mass media subscale had the lowest mean score. Information competency of nursing students was positively correlated with students' age. Significant differences were found in information competency according to the academic level, addressing scientific research and research in databases in the course of the study, frequency of meeting the supervisor to discuss the research and university sector.Originality/value: Although there are numerous studies worldwide that assessed nursing students' information literacy, this paper represents the first study of information literacy competencies among nursing students in Jordan. While the content supports conclusions that have been drawn from other studies, this study is novel in terms of the student population it addressed. Information competency among nursing students can be improved by integrating standard research and information competency courses at the undergraduate level and involving mass media platforms in the nursing education curricula.

Study Aim: To examine the association between workplace incivility and caring responsibilities among hospital nurses. Methods: A cross-sectional design was utilized. A convenience sampling technique was used, and 1,378 nurses from 10 hospitals in Jordan participated. Questionnaires on workplace incivility and Caring Dimensions Inventory were administered to the participants. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics and a two-model multiple linear regression. Results: Workplace incivility was significantly and negatively correlated with nurses’ caring responsibilities r (1,376) = .10, p =< .001. The total mean score of reported incivility was 23.92 (SD = 10.06), ranging between 12 and 60. The regression model showed that caring responsibilities significantly predicted lower experiences of workplace incivility among hospital nurses ( β = −0.185, p < .00), holding the effect of nurses’ characteristics constant. Conclusions: Nurses reported low incivility behaviors from coworkers or supervisors during the prior year at work. Nurses’ experience of workplace incivility was weakly associated with their caring responsibilities toward patients. Nursing management needs to address workplace incivility and caring responsibilities among nurses. Interventions to improve nursing care responsibilities could help reduce incivility among nurses, such as therapeutic communication skills.

Aim: To investigate the perception of undergraduate nursing students in different countries in the Middle East about caring.Design: A cross‐sectional, descriptive, comparative design.Methods: A total of 1,582 nursing students from six different countries in the Middle East completed the Caring Dimensions Inventory.Results: The total mean score of caring was 138.8 (± 15.8), indicating a high level of caring. The highest mean score was for nursing students from Egypt (M = 145.37 ± 15.97), whereas the lowest was for nursing students from Palestine (M = 135.36 ± 13.48). The caring perception was more significant for female students than male students, and no significant correlation was found between students' ages and caring scores.Conclusions: The high level of caring among nursing students reflects the involvement of caring behaviour in the nursing curricula, which motivates nursing schools to continue stressing the importance of caring and to enhance this behaviour among their graduates.Patient or Public Contribution: Improving the students' caring competencies as recommended by the study will influence the caregiving quality in the future that will be reflected in nurse–patient caring relationships and raise the patients' and public satisfaction with nursing care.

Introduction: Developing a new model for the healthcare system that includes a set of management and leadership competencies is crucial to the improvement of productivity and sustainability of organizations.Objective: This study aims to identify the management and leadership competencies and sustainability measures from the perspective of Jordanian managers in governmental hospitals.Methods: A descriptive correlational study design was utilized. A convenient sampling method was used to select managers in governmental hospitals in the Central region of Jordan. A self-administered questionnaire was conducted using the Management and Leadership Questionnaire (MLQ30) and the Sustainability in Healthcare Questionnaire (SHQ).Results: The total mean score of the management and leadership scale was 3.49. The highest-ranked items were “Speaking confidently and presenting to groups” and “Building trust and modeling integrity “. while the lowest-ranked items are “Thinking and managing globally” and “Creating and innovating.” The importance of sustainability measures is ranked as follows: social, environmental, and economic factors. There was a positive, statistically significant relationship between managers’ competencies and the importance of sustainability measures. The combined competencies can predict the application of sustainability measures.Conclusion: The sustainability factor that has been found exhibits components of environmental, economic, and social dimensions and this aligns well with the literature. Future hospital managers are today’s students, and the job they do will either positively or negatively affect their institutions whether governmental or private, and society. So, including core competencies of management and leadership that foster sustainable development in the curricula might be a significant step toward integrating sustainability in higher education, among other activities.