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  • Knowledge, Attitudes, and P...
    Eid AbuRuz, Mohannad; Abu Hayeah, Haneen; Al Dweik, Ghadeer; Yousef Al Akash, Hekmat

    Health Science Journal, 2017, Letnik: 11, Številka: 2
    Journal Article

    Nurses with MSc degree, working in ICU and private hospitals have more positive attitude, reported higher levels of knowledge and skills compared to nurses with BSc, nurses working in other units, and nurses working in ministry of health and Royal Medical Service respectively. ...EBP has been considered as critical element to improve quality of health services and achieving excellence in patient care 6. Evidence-based practice implementation is associated with all aspects of quality in health care such as efficient use of resources, improvement of patient care, decreasing costs and length of hospital stay, increasing patient satisfaction and elimination of unnecessary practices 3,9. ...Knowledge, attitudes can potentially predict future behavior in regard to EBP implementation 1,9. Methods General objective and research questions A paucity of information is available regarding assessing the factors influencing EBP adoption till now. ...the general purpose of this study was to describe Jordanian nurses' knowledge, attitudes, and practice about evidencebased practice. Specifically the study was designed to answer the following questions in addition to the major purpose: 1) to determine if there was an associations between selected demographic variables (age, gender, academic qualifications, years of experience, participation in research, and availability of data base at the hospitals) and perceived EBP practice, attitudes, knowledge/skills; 2) to determine if there was a difference in perceived EBP practice, attitudes, knowledge/ skills among area of practice (i.e., ICCU, ER, general words); 3) to determine if there was a difference in perceived EBP practice, attitudes, knowledge/skills among different types of hospitals (private,...