Background: Burnout is a grave problem for critical care workers because they are exposed to prolonged psychosocial stressors, including advanced technology, high responsibilities and great patient acuity. The aim of this study was to investigate burnout, its associated factors and its effect on self-care among critical care nurses. Methods: A descriptive correlational research design was carried out with 170 critical care nurses at Buraydah Central Hospital at Qassim Region in Saudi Arabia. A self-administered questionnaire including socio-demographic and work-related characteristics was used, as well as the Short Form SF12 to assess the quality of life, and the Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI) to assess the level of burnout. Results: The three Maslach Burnout Inventory subscales, high emotional exhaustion and depersonalization, low personal accomplishment and moderate total burnout score were used. The quality of life measure (sF12) showed moderate levels of physical, mental component score and total score of quality for the critical care nurses. Factors associated with burnout include age, nationality, and years of experience and the wish to change department showed statistical significance. Burnout and quality of life score had a significant negative correlation. Conclusion: Age, nationality, years of experience and wish to change department are all significantly associated with burnout. Finally, burnout and quality of life score of these critical care nurses had a negative significant correlation.

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Background: Bone marrow biopsy plays a critical role in the identification and management of several hematological and systemic illnesses. Even although the procedure has been conceded for years, it remains uncomfortable and extremely painful experience for all patients. While applying evidence-based guidelines in dealing with a patient undergoing bone marrow biopsy is not only an absolute duty for nurses practicing, however, is too a central role to the nursing science. Objectives: This study aims to assess and evaluate the impact of evidence-based guidelines on performance, perception, and satisfaction of patients undergoing bone marrow biopsy Method: Quasi-experimental research design was conducted. The purposive sample for all patients (50) admitted for Bone Marrow biopsy with various hematological disorders at Damietta Oncology Institute. The instrument was used to collect study data include patient socio-demographic, health information characteristics, patient's performance, the perception of patient's and satisfaction. Result: It showed that the majority of patients had a higher total mean score at post-evidence-based guidelines implementation than pre implementing of guidelines regarding patient's perception, performance, and satisfaction with statistically significant difference (p ≤ 0.05).Conclusion: Evidence-based guidelines improve patient's perception, performance, and satisfaction regarding bone marrow biopsy. Recommendations: Activate implementation of bone marrow biopsy an aspiration guidelines manual in the hospitals and it's availability to all patients in the simple media and language. Also, nurses must be trained to implement evidence-based guidelines. This study may deliver a performance framework for the future advance in other nursing evidence-based practice.

Background: Emergency services utilize a triage approach to rank patients according to the seriousness of their diagnoses. Triage is one of the abilities that a nurse working in an emergency room must possess. Aim: This study aims to examine the nurses' knowledge regarding triage and identify the variables that affect emergency nurses' knowledge of the triage systems. Methods: This cross-sectional descriptive study was performed from April to June 2021, on (48) nurses working in the emergency department. (ED) at Burridah central hospital in the Qassim region of Saudi Arabia. A self-administered questionnaire with non-probability purposive sampling was used to gather the data by sociodemographic data and triage knowledge. Results: The findings revealed that 68.8% were female and 45.8 % with a mean age of 31.79. Nurses revealed moderate levels of triage knowledge. Bachelor science nursing degree (p = 0.005, B= 10.659), years of experience for ≥5 years (p = 0.002, B =10.670), and training courses on triage (p = 0.001, B= 12.418) were affecting factors with statistically significant on emergency nurses' knowledge. Conclusions: Findings revealed that emergency nurses had a moderate level of triage knowledge and affecting factors of nurses' knowledge were qualification, years of experience, and training courses of triage Therefore, recommendations for training sessions and programs should be held and taken into account the connected increases in emergency nurses' knowledge of triage to improve the quality of nursing care and patient outcomes.