Hamdan Albaqawi

Background: Enhancing nursing students’ awareness, attitudes, beliefs, and preparedness toward AI may help improve their health care knowledge and practice. Objective: This study aimed to assess nursing students’ attitudes, perceptions, self-efficacy, barriers, and anxiety, which influence their readiness to adopt AI in nursing practice. Methods: This study used a cross-sectional, correlational design. Data were collected from 307 nursing internship students using an 8-part, self-administered questionnaire. Results: Increased self-efficacy with computers was correlated with decreased barriers to accessing AI technology, lower computer anxiety scale scores ( r =−0.27, P <.001 and r =−0.57, P <.001, respectively), and higher perceptions of using AI ( r =0.27, P <.001). Meanwhile, nursing students’ readiness to adopt AI in nursing practice was negatively associated with barriers to accessing AI technology ( r =−0.20, P <.001) and positively associated with attitudes toward and perceptions of using AI ( r =0.32, P <.001 and r =0.14, P =.01, respectively). Increased barriers to accessing AI technology were associated with negative attitudes toward AI and nursing students’ perceptions of using AI ( r =−0.34, P <.001 and r =−0.39, P <.001, respectively). A multilayer neural network model identified barriers (relative importance=0.27), attitudes (relative importance=0.16), and perceptions (relative importance=0.15) as the most significant predictors, while self-efficacy (relative importance=0.11) and anxiety (relative importance=0.07) showed smaller contributions, despite nonsignificant bivariate associations with nursing students’ AI readiness. The model demonstrated strong predictive performance, achieving a low relative error of 0.62 in the training set. The stability and generalization ability of the model were supported by the training and testing set results, which yielded a training sum of squares error of 65.93 and a testing sum of squares error of 35.49, showing no signs of overfitting. Conclusions: Several contributing factors influenced nursing students’ readiness to embrace AI, with barriers, attitudes, and perceptions emerging as the most consistent, whereas self-efficacy and anxiety may play indirect roles. To improve the adoption of AI among nursing students, such factors should be dealt with in such educational programs; an interrelated adoption of AI in nursing practice is expounded as a more favorable environment.

Introduction: Breastfeeding is vital for the health of both the mother and the child, but many primigravida, or first‐time mothers, encounter obstacles that affect their ability to successfully breastfeed. Aim: This study sought to explore the impact of a health educational programme on breastfeeding practices and maternal self‐efficacy. Methods: A randomized controlled intervention design was employed, with participants allocated to either a control group or a study group receiving the educational programme. The study was conducted at the Maternal and Children Hospital in the Saudi Arabian cities of Hail and Bisha. A total of 442 primigravida mothers were enrolled, with 221 assigned to the study group and 221 to the control group. Data collection utilized the Self‐Efficacy Scale Short‐Form and a validated questionnaire assessing breastfeeding knowledge, attitude and practices (KAP). Each woman completed a structured interview and observations at five time points: pre‐intervention (within the first week post‐partum), post‐intervention (2–3 weeks post‐partum) and at 2, 4 and 6 months. Results: The study group showed statistically significant improvements in total KAP scores compared to the control group ( p < 0.001). Self‐efficacy increased significantly in the study group, with more women reporting high self‐efficacy at 2 months (25.2%), 4 months (45.1%) and 6 months (50.5%). Conclusion: A breastfeeding educational programme is a powerful tool for new mothers, enhancing practical skills and self‐efficacy, leading to a more positive and sustained breastfeeding experience, supporting maternal and infant health outcomes. Trial Registration: ClinicalTrials.gov : NCT06423534

Holistic nursing is a patient-centered approach that integrates various aspects of health to support overall well-being and improve quality of life. Exploring the factors that influence nurses' provision of holistic care from the nurses' point of view and perspective can significantly contribute to improving patient care. Despite the benefits of this modern nursing philosophy, it is still underutilized in Saudi Arabia. To examine the factors that influence the holistic nursing practices of Saudi Arabian nurses in the city of Hail, Saudi Arabia. This study used a qualitative-thematic analysis design and involved 12 nurses selected through purposive sampling criteria. Thematic data analysis of nurses' practices and experiences in providing holistic nursing care in Hail, Saudi Arabia, revealed four key factors affecting patient outcomes: inadequate nursing care, inadequate support for nurse empowerment, negative family attitudes and expectations toward nursing responsibilities, and disproportionate nurse staffing ratios. Challenges to holistic care delivery by nurses often fall within the realm of management. Practical strategies to address these challenges include reviewing and updating operational nursing policies to incorporate rotations, increasing staffing levels, implementing a reward system, ensuring adequate resources, promoting open communication, and valuing the well-being of the team.

Teaching nursing students a holistic approach to patient care and integrating treatment modalities is a crucial component of traditional holistic nursing education ...

Background: This study aimed to determine the relationship between perceived stress and moral resilience among nurses. Methods: The researcher used a quantitative–comparative correlational study design that utilized a self-administered questionnaire with 393 nurse participants in the Hail Region, Saudi Arabia. Adapted questionnaires were distributed through Google Form survey. Data collection was conducted between October and November 2021. Results: The nurses were moderately stressed (21.69/30) but morally resilient (2.74/4). Perceived stress scale (p < 0.033) and moral resilience (p < 0.25) were found to be significantly associated with gender. The designated ward and age were not significantly associated with perceived stress and moral resilience. Conversely, the years of experience showed a significant association with perceived stress (p < 0.038) but not with moral resilience (p > 0.255). Finally, no relationship was observed between perceived stress and moral resilience (p > 0.248). Conclusions: The nurses were perceived to be moderately stressed but morally resilient. Gender was found to have a significant association with perceived stress and moral resilience but not with designated ward and age. Conversely, the years of experience had a significant association with perceived stress but not with moral resilience. Meanwhile, perceived stress had no significant relationship with moral resilience. Therefore, being morally robust allows nurses to respond to challenging, frequently intractable ethical issues that arise in clinical practice and during pandemics, regardless of the underlying stress at work.

This study aims to determine the level of stress and the coping style through positive mental health status among student nurses. Further ...

The purpose of this study is to determine contributory factors to students' self-efficacy and barriers in online learning during the COVID-19 pandemic. This research used a quantitative-cross sectional with the 202 student nurses of the College of Nursing, University of Hail. These students were chosen through convenience sampling. Data gathering was between November and December 2021. The frequency and percentage were used to analyze the demographic characteristics and the identified barriers. The results show a significant difference between gender and online environment (t=-3.807; p<.001), time management (t=-2.651; p<.009), and technology (t=-2.902; p<.004) was established. The age was not significant difference with online environment (F=.103; p>.902), time management (F=1.408; p>.247), and technology (F=.750; p>.474). In addition, the level of proficiency was found no significant difference in the online environment (F=1.986; p>.098), time management (F=1.026; p>.395), and technology (F=2.231; p>.067). Lastly, the grade point average (GPA) was also found no significant difference with the online environment (F=.923; p>.490), time management (F=.743; p>.636), and technology (F.449; p>.870). The weak internet connection has the highest percentage (43.6%) followed by poor presentation materials of instructors (34.2%) as the identified barriers to self-efficacy in online learning education. In conclusion, educational institutions need to understand the factors that influence student attraction and motivation to continue taking online studies in the future.

Introduction: Patient safety captures the essence of the primary principle of medical ethics, primum non nocere, first do no harm; this is an important concern in the health care system. Nurses are indispensable members of this system and are the largest group of health care providers involved in the direct delivery of patient care. As an integral part of the health care system, it is important to know nurses’ opinions on patient safety culture. Objectives: First, to evaluate and measure the existing safety culture and safety of patients in medical−surgical wards (MSW) in hospitals located in the Qassim region, in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Second, to survey the opinion of registered nurses and supervisors/managers about safety culture and issues concerned with safety in hospitals in the region. Materials and Methods: A validated cross-sectional survey, namely the Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture (HSOPSC), was used. This survey queried 300 nurses in different MSWs in four hospitals in the Qassim Region. Results: Overall, a positive culture of safety exists in MSWs, with 69% of RNs rating their wards as having great/excellent safety culture. Notably, some participants felt it was problematic that blame was assigned to nurses for reported errors. While 55.9% of participants noted that all errors or narrowly avoided errors had been reported, less than half actually reported errors in the last year. Conclusion: The perceived safety culture was largely positive; however, the results also indicated that a culture of safety comes with some risk and blame.