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Patient safety culture among nurses working in Palestinian governmental hospital: a pathway to a new policy

Abu-El-Noor, Nasser I.; Abu-El-Noor, Mysoon K.; Abuowda, Yousef; Alfaqawi, Maha; Böttcher, Bettina (Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2019-12)

Providing safe care helps to reduce mortality, morbidity, length of hospital stay and cost. Patient safety is highly linked to attitudes of health care providers, where those with more positive attitudes achieve higher ...

Choices and services related to contraception in the Gaza strip, Palestine: perceptions of service users and providers

Böttcher, Bettina; Abu-El-Noor, Mysoon K.; Abu-El-Noor, Nasser I. (Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2019-12)

Reliable contraception enables women and men to plan their family sizes and avoid unintended pregnancies, which can cause distress and anxiety, but also increase maternal mortality. This study explored potential barriers ...

Attitudes of doctors and nurses to patient safety and errors in medical practice in the Gaza-Strip: a cross-sectional study

Böttcher, Bettina; Abu-El-Noor, Nasser I.; Abuowda, Yousef; Alfaqawi, Maha; Alaloul, Enas; El-hout, Somaya; Al-Najjar, Ibrahem; Abu-El-Noor, Mysoon K. (BMJ, 2019-08)

Objectives This study examined the attitudes of nurses and doctors to key patient safety concepts, evaluated differences and similarities between professional groups and assessed positive and negative attitudes to identify ...

Causes and consequences of unintended pregnancies in the Gaza-Strip: A qualitative study

Böttcher, Bettina; Abu-El-Noor, Mysoon; Abu-El-Noor, Nasser I. (BMJ, 2019-04)

Abstract Background Little is known about unintended pregnancies in the Gaza Strip. This study explored causes and consequences of unintended pregnancies among women in the Gaza Strip. Methods This was a qualitative ...

Post-traumatic stress disorder among health care providers two years following the Israeli attacks against Gaza Strip in August 2014: Another call for policy intervention

Abu-El-Noor, Nasser I.; Aljeesh, Yousef I.; Radwan, Abdalkarim S.; Abu-El-Noor, Mysoon K.; Qddura, Ibrahim A.; Khadoura, Khalid J.; Alnawajha, Samer K. (2018)

This study aimed to assess the level of posttraumatic stress disorder and to examine the relationship between exposure to war stress and posttraumatic symptoms among health care providers two years following Israeli ...

Assessing spiritual well-being of Palestinian Cardiac Patients: A reflection for a new spiritual care policy

Abu-El-Noor, Mysoon K. (الجامعة الإسلامية - غزة, 2017)

Religious and spiritual beliefs are important factors that influence quality of life outcome of patients diagnosed with chronic diseases such as heart disease. Spirituality is an important component of overall well-being ...

Safety Culture in Neonatal Intensive Care Units in the Gaza Strip, Palestine: A Need for Policy Change

Abu-El-Noor, Nasser I.; Hamdan, Motasem Abduallah; Abu-El-Noor, Mysoon K.; Radwan, Abdal-Karim Said; Alshaer, Ahmed Ali (WB Saunders, 2017)

Introduction Assessment of the prevailing safety culture within the Gazan health care system can be used to identify problem areas. Specifically, the need for improvements, raising awareness about patient safety, the ...

Quality of life of people wounded in the 2014 conflict in the Gaza Strip: a cross-sectional study

Abu-El-Noor, Nasser I.; Ajedi, Ashraf Yaqoub; Abu-El-Noor, Mysoon K. (Elsevier, 2017)

Background In the past 6 years, three conflicts have taken place in the Gaza Strip. The last conflict, in 2014, continued for 51 days and left 2191 people dead and 10 895 wounded. We aimed to assess quality of life of ...

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Among Health Care Providers Following The Israeli Attacks Against Gaza Strip in 2014: A call for Immediate Policy Actions

Abu-El-Noor, Nasser I.; Aljeesh, Yousef I.; Radwan, Abdalkarim S.; Abu-El-Noor, Mysoon K.; Qddura, Ibrahim A.; Khadoura, Khalid J.; Alnawajha, Samer Khader (2016)

Attitude of Palestinian nursing students toward caring for dying patients: a call for change in health education policy

Abu-El-Noor, Nasser I.; Abu-El-Noor, Mysoon K. (SAGE Publications, 2016)

Death is a natural process that occurs each day. Some nursing students may encounter the experience of taking care of a dying patient while others do not. Therefore, their attitude toward death and caring for dying patients ...