American Research Journal of Nursing

Awatif Faisal Albuqami *, Eman Salman Taie** and Nabila Abdullah ***

Background- Emotional Intelligence provides an important assistance to efficient leadership and it has become one of essential leaders’ competencies. Nurses are the closest member of healthcare system to the patient. Empowering them means enhancement of quality of patients’ care and advancement of patient safety Aim: To investigate the relationship between head nurses’ emotional intelligence and staff nurses’ empowerment. Method- It is Descriptive correlational study. The study was conducted in Prince Mohamad Bin Abdul Aziz Hospital in Riyadh City affiliated to Saudi Ministry of health. Subjects composed of two groups. First group: head nurses: All available head nurses (N= 36) were included. Second group was staff nurses (N =270), selected randomly. Two tools were used to collect the study data. Tool I: Emotional Intelligence Questionnaire Format and tool II Staff Nurses’ Empowerment Questionnaire Format. Results– More than half of study sample were high emotionally intelligent (58.33%), whereas only (5.56%) were low emotionally intelligent and (36.11%) of them were moderate emotionally intelligent. The total empowerment means score (25.45±8.427) where the highest mean scores of empowerment subscale were found on informal power (5.12±2.022) then opportunity (4.27±1.553). Global measure of empowerment was the lowest mean score (2.54±1.312). Less than half of study subjects were moderately empowered (43%) while (32.6%) of them were low empowered and only slightly less than one quarter (24.4%) were highly empowered. Finally, weak non-significant correlations between Head nurses’ emotional Intelligence and staff nurses’ perceived empowerment. Conclusion- More than half of study sample were high emotionally intelligent and only (5.56%) were low emotionally intelligent and more than third of them were moderate. less than half of study subjects were moderately empowered ,while about one third of them were low empowered and only slightly less than one quarter were highly empowered. Finally, weak non-significant correlations between Head nurses’ emotional Intelligence and staff nurses’ perceived empowerment. Recommendation: Provide training programs for staff nurses and head nurses about empowerment. Involve emotional intelligence competencies in head nurses’ performance appraisal. Develop curricular based competencies for emotional intelligence and empowerment both in under and postgraduate programs. Further research to examine the effect of shared governance on nurses ‘empowerment.

Zakiah Eid Al-Balawi1, Eman Salman Taie2, Naglaa Alsesei3

Background: Nursing informatics is the specialty that integrates nursing science, information science, computer science, and cognitive science for the purpose of identify, manage, communicate and enhance healthcare data, information, knowledge, and wisdom to improve patient care and the nursing profession Aim: To assess nursing informatics competencies for nursing personnel in primary healthcare centers in Tabuk. Method: It is descriptive study. The study was conducted primary healthcare centers in Tabuk. Distributed based on proximity from the Hospitals into (king Khaled Hospital sector and King Fahad Hospital sector). Study subjects composed (217) nurses personnel. Nursing Informatics Competencies Questionnaire used for data collection. Results: The highest percentage of nursing personnel was female. More than half of study sample had associated nursing degree and less than one third of them had bachelor degree in nursing. About half of study subjects were capable of computer literacy competency and Informatics Literacy Competency. Meanwhile, about one third of them were capable in Information Management Literacy Competency. More than half of them were capable regarding total nursing informatics competencies. Conclusion: More than half of them were capable regarding total nursing informatics competencies. Meanwhile, more than one third were partially capable and less than one quarter of them was not capable. Recommendation: Involve nursing informatics competencies in nursing personnel performance appraisal. Conducts competency based nursing informatics training programs for nursing personnel according to their needs and to be up to date with new competencies. Develop curricular based competencies and further researches to investigate correlation between nursing informatics competencies and patient safety.

Jumana Nayef Almomani

Congenital Heart diseases (CHD) are considered the most common severe congenital anomalies among infants. Present studies revealed that quality of life associated with long life caring process has been improved through understanding the parents’ lived experience of infants with CHD. In Jordan, no studies were published to determine parents’ lived experience. This present study is conducted to explore parents’ lived experience of the child with CHD in Jordan. This descriptive phenomenological study was conducted at Queen Alia Center for Cardiac Surgery in Royal Medical Services /Jordan, from February to April (2019). A sample of 11 parents of infants with CHD were invited to participate in a semi-structured recorded interview over 90 minutes. This interview utilizing Colaizzi’ methods (1978) and extracting four thematic statements: “Fear of uncertainty and the unknown”, “Mothers’ fatigability in caring process”, “Knowing alleviate anxiety, tension and stress”, “Spiritualization and socialization being as helpful in coping process”. Recognition and enrichment of parents’ knowledge using teaching programs or handouts were found to be useful

Mr. Ibrahim Mubarak Al Baalharith1, Dr. Ester Mary Pappiya2, Mr. Hamad Salem Al Grad3

 Background of the study: Spiritual care has recognized as part of holistic nursing care in promoting health and well-being. A holistic approach encourages the nurses to address all the physical, mental, emotional, spiritual and social needs of the patient by providing a complete model of care.Aim:To investigate the nurse’s perceptive on spiritual care competence. Materials and Methods: Cross-sectional descriptive design was used to describe the perceptive of nurses on spiritual care competency at selected hospitals in Najran. Convenience sampling technique with 100 samples and the data was obtained through the spiritual care competence scale (SCCS) and a demographic questionnaire. Data were analysed by descriptive and inferential statistics using SPSS statistical package. Results:The results showed that the mean score for the nurse’s perceptive on spiritual care competence was 67.6 that indicates that the nurses were average in providing spiritual care competency. The highest score was related to attitude towards patient spirituality mean, that is, 22.43 with SD 0.57 and the lowest score was related to communication domain that is, 10.6 with 0.68 standard deviation. Conclusion: The research findings suggest that the perceptive of nurses on spiritual care competency is average and they have to pay attention to the patient spiritual care to improve their spiritual needs.