Aim
The study aimed to revisit the roles of nurses working in the neonatal intensive care unit in a specific university hospital located in the Eastern Region to pursue Saudi Vision 2030—to provide ...excellent quality of life and well‐being for its national citizens.
Background
The neonatal intensive care unit is one of the most crucial hospital units caring for high‐risk neonates with conditions like pre‐ and post‐maturity and congenital anomalies. The nurses' experiences are vital to achieving the Saudi Vision 2030's Health Sector Transformation Strategy.
Methods
Descriptive Phenomenology. Data collection utilized semi‐structured individual interviews with sixteen (16) neonatal intensive care unit nurses for 10 months from March 2019 to January 2020. Colaizzi Method was used in data analysis, and the COREQ criteria list was utilized in data reporting.
Results
Three major themes emerged from the participants' narratives: (1) ‘mokadem alreayah alshamela’: holistic caregiver; (2) ‘muzawed malomat’: information provider; and (3) ‘yad almusaadah’: helping hand.
Conclusion
Revisiting the various roles will align neonatal intensive care unit nurses' critical characteristics towards Saudi Vision 2030, focusing solely on improving service providers' quality and safety principles and skills.
Implication for Nursing Management
Revisiting the roles of the neonatal intensive care unit nurses would provide an alignment to the goals and objectives of the future initiatives of Saudi Arabia towards its Vision 2030.
Aim
The primary aim of this qualitative inquiry is to explore the experiences of Registered Nurses working in Saudi Arabia, which was a guide to answer the question, “what are the lived experiences ...of Registered Nurses working in a selected government hospital in Eastern Region of Saudi Arabia towards workplace violence?”
Background
Workplace violence is a social phenomenon that needs a widespread campaign to eradicate. Incidence from all over the world continues to grow in number, especially among Registered Nurses in Saudi Arabia.
Methods
Descriptive phenomenology. Purposive‐convenience sampling was used in selecting 21 Registered Nurses as participants for individual in‐depth interviews. Data were gathered over an 11 month's period from September 2017 to August 2018. We used Colaizzi's method for analysing the data. COREQ criteria were adapted in reporting the results of the study.
Results
Three themes had emerged from the experiences of the participants: “co‐workers become unjust and violent”; “socio‐cultural divergence towards healthcare workers”; and “violence from outside influences affecting the workplace.”
Assertive communication skills are key to establishing and safe effective teamwork. Nursing education has long been recognized as important for providing the future workforce with high-calibre ...interpersonal skills, including assertive communication ones. Newly-graduated nurses are in a unique position to reflect on both their undergraduate nursing education and its contributions to their current communication practice. The aim of this research was to explore newly-graduated British and Saudi nurses’ views on the contributions of their undergraduate nursing education towards learning and practising assertive communication skills.
A total of 96 newly-graduated British and Saudi nurses completed a survey with qualitative, open-ended questions between 2015 and 2017. The nurses reflected on learning and practising assertive communication skills during their undergraduate nursing education, and in their current clinical role. The nurses’ qualitative responses were analysed using thematic analysis.
Three major themes were identified from data analysis: “Drivers for speaking up”, “The pedagogical context of speaking up” and “Ways of building self-confidence”.
Undergraduate nursing education across both the UK and Saudi Arabia emphasizes the need to acquire the skills to communicate assertively in clinical settings. However, the nursing education received by the participants fails to address key operational skills which would help the nurses to translate such awareness into practice. Education and training must be matched by the elimination of implicit sanctions against speaking up in both educational and work settings. Future research needs to examine not only the operational skills that are necessary to challenge poor practice, but also the contributions of personality traits towards faster acquisition of assertiveness skills.
دراسة المؤشرات الاجتماعية والديموغرافية للتمكين الهيكلي بين عينة دولية من الممرضات والممرضين المؤهلين حديثا.
دراسة مقطعية اشترك فيها 367 ممرضا وممرضة مؤهلين حديثا مع ما يصل إلى 18 شهرا من الخبرة ...السريرية من 15 مستشفى في جميع أنحاء المملكة العربية السعودية والأردن والمملكة المتحدة. وقد تم استخدام اختبار أنوفا وتحليل الانحدار الهرمي في تحليل البيانات.
تم العثور على فروق ذات دلالة إحصائية في مجموع درجات التمكين الهيكلي بين المشاركين بناء على أنواع الجامعات التي تخرجوا منها، وما إذا كانوا قد تلقوا تدريبا على التواصل أثناء تعليم التمريض الجامعي، وعدد الأشهر بعد التأهيل كممرضات وممرضين، وأنواع إعدادات الأجنحة السريرية التي كانوا يعملون فيها، والبلد الذي تم توظيفهم منه. علاوة على ذلك، أظهرت النتائج أن البلد وأنواع إعدادات الأجنحة السريرية التي كانوا يعملون فيها وأنواع الجامعات التي تخرج منها المشاركون هي مؤشرات مهمة لإجمالي درجات التمكين الهيكلي للمشاركين.
تؤكد النتائج التأثير الفريد للسياقات الثقافية، ونوع إعداد الجناح السريري ونوع الإعداد التعليمي السابق على مستوى التمكين الهيكلي بين الممرضات المؤهلات حديثًا.
To examine the socio-demographic predictors of structural empowerment among an international sample of newly qualified nurses.
A cross-sectional survey was conducted on 367 newly qualified nurses with up to 18 months of clinical experience. The nurses were recruited from 15 acute care hospitals across KSA, Jordan, and the UK. Data analysis was conducted using the t-test, ANOVA, and hierarchical regression analysis.
Significant differences in the total structural empowerment score were found among participants based on the type of universities where they graduated from (t = 2.36, p < 0.05), if they have received assertive communication training during undergraduate nursing education (t = 3.53, p < 0.05), number of months as qualified nurses (F = 4.79, p < 0.05), type of clinical ward settings they were working in (F = 5.1, p < 0.05), and the country where they were recruited from (F = 14.66) (p < 0.05). Furthermore, the country, type of clinical ward settings they were working in, and type of the university the participants graduated from were found to be significant predictors of the participants’ total structural empowerment score (F = 16.6, p < 0.05).
The findings underscore the unique contributions of the cultural contexts, type of clinical ward setting, and type of former educational setting towards the level of structural empowerment among newly qualified nurses.
Background: World Health organization (WHO) and the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) have been recommended the application of the Ten Steps to Successful Breastfeeding of the Baby-Friendly ...Hospital Initiative (BFHI) in order to promote & support breastfeeding. The aim of this study was to assess pregnant and lactating mothers' attitudes and practice of ten steps to successful breastfeeding at KFHU. Methods: Data was collected using interview questionnaire sheet from pregnant ladies in the third trimester (N = 73) and lactating mothers (N = 84) who are delivered and have infants from 6 hours up to 6 months of life at KFHU. Results: more than two thirds of the sample has secondary or university education. Majority of mothers breastfed their previous children but 36.9% of them discontinued breastfeeding before 6 months. Health education addressing breastfeeding was given only for 16.6% of the total sample. Mothers agree to feed their babies on demand (74.5%), day and night (82.8%), to continue breastfeeding up to 2 years (75.8%), while 47.8% were agree to exclusive breastfeeding up to 6 months.Conclusion: Although there was a clear agreement about the steps to successful breastfeeding among pregnant & lactating mothers, the actual practice of these steps are obviously incongruent with BFHI criteria for accreditation. Recommendation: health education, training and support for all pregnant and lactating mothers are crucial elements to promote breastfeeding, as well as the hospital policy taking into consideration to turn the BFHI into practice for the purpose of accreditation.
The decreased exclusive breast-feeding rate and increased mixed feeding methods for infants in Saudi Arabia highlighted a need for investigation. This research was divided into two studies. The ...purpose of the first study was to examine pregnant Saudi women’s attitudes toward breast-feeding, and their effects on infant feeding behaviour. The second study sought to explore the main factors that influenced mothers’ decision making towards infant feeding. A mixed method design was adapted for this research. The first study (quantitative) was conducted during pregnancy and after delivery to examine expectant mothers’ attitudes and behaviour to infant feeding, using an adaptation of the Iowa Infant Feeding Attitude Scale (IIFAS). The first study results led to an interpretative phenomenological design for the second study. The second study revealed that the mothers interviewed in this study went through three stages to make decisions about infant feeding. These were the planning, transient and implementation stages. Each stage was typified by factors that affected breast-feeding initiation and continuation. All three stages were influenced by three social structural factors that formed the context in which the three stages unfolded: the role of the milk formula companies, the role of patriarchy in Saudi Arabia and the role of social networks. To conclude, the findings of this research provide broad knowledge about Saudi mothers’ attitudes and experience of infant feeding and confirm the use of the modified IIFAS (MIIFAS) as a predictor for infant feeding choice at four months post-delivery. The findings also provide insights that might help researchers and practitioners to understand the nature of the problem. The study has implications for both policy and practice for health care professionals in their attempt to improve breast-feeding rates in Saudi Arabia.
Background: Emotional intelligence is defined as a social strategy that enables an individual to comprehend his or her own emotions as well as those of others, to distinguish between them, to think ...about them, and to apply them. Emotional intelligence has long been linked to reduced stress and improved well-being. There has been a significant increase in the study of the relationship between emotional intelligence and job stress, as well as the relationship between emotional intelligence and mental and physical health functioning, since the early 2000s. However, no research has been done to link this characteristic to academic stress and hope. Aim: This study examines the effect of emotional intelligence training program on the levels of alexithymia, academic stress and hope among Nursing College Students. Method and Subject: All students enlisted in Nursing College were chosen and randomly assigned for two gatherings (Experimental and Control Groups). Each group was administered with 1.5-hour emotional intelligence training session per week. Results: The results show considerable variations in the experimental group compared to the control group in relation to the levels of alexithymia, academic stress and hope.
Background
Novel SARS‐CoV‐2 (COVID‐19) virus has rapidly spread worldwide and was declared a pandemic, making identifying and prioritizing individuals most at risk a critical challenge. The ...literature describes an association between blood groups and the susceptibility to various viral infections and their severity. Knowing if a specific blood group has more susceptibility to COVID‐19 may help improve understanding the pathogenesis and severity of the disease. We aimed to assess the association between ABO/RhD and COVID‐19 susceptibility and severity, and to compare results with similar studies in Saudi Arabia.
Study Design and Methods
This study was conducted between March and October 2021 on 600 patients confirmed positive for COVID‐19 infection. Patients' data were collected and analyzed. As a control, 8423 healthy blood donors were enrolled as a sample representative of the population for blood group distribution.
Results
More individuals had blood group B in the COVID‐19 group in comparison with the control group (24.2% vs. 18%), The opposite was observed among individuals of group O (39.5% vs. 47.3%). The B blood group was predictive of higher risk of mortality. No significant difference in the distribution of RhD was observed between the COVID‐19 and the control groups. Neither ABO nor RhD was significantly associated with the severity of COVID‐19.
Discussion
Although there was no significant association with the disease severity, the B blood group may be associated with a higher risk for COVID‐19 infection. Further studies with a larger sample size are necessary to evaluate this correlation.
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