AI & Students’ Performance

The AI & Students’ Performance Research Group focuses on investigating the impact of Artificial Intelligence applications in education—particularly nursing education—on learning outcomes, academic performance, critical thinking, and clinical decision-making skills among students.

• “We do others’ jobs”: A qualitative study of non nursing task challenges and proposed solutions. BMC Nursing, 2024.

• Experiences of health related quality of life of Jordanian patients living with heart failure: A qualitative study. PLOS ONE, 2024.

• Impact of triage nurses’ recognition of acute coronary syndrome on patients’ clinical outcomes: A retrospective study. Heart & Lung, 2024.

• Persistent anxiety and depression affected academic achievement and absenteeism in nursing students. The Open Nursing Journal, 2018.

• Checking the moderating effect of perceived control on the relationship between anxiety and postoperative length of stay among CABG patients.

International Journal of General Medicine, 2019.

• Knowledge, attitudes, and practice about evidence based practice: A Jordanian study. Health Science Journal, 2017.

​• Type 1 diabetes self management among adolescents and their parents in Jordan: A grounded theory study. Current Diabetes Reviews, 2022.​ 

​• Efficacy of Benson’s relaxation technique on anxiety and depression among patien​ts undergoing​​ hemodialysis: A systematic review. Clinical Nursing Research, 2022.

• The effectiveness of Benson’s relaxation technique on pain and perceived stress among patients undergoing hemodialysis:

A double blind, cluster randomized controlled trial. Clinical Nursing Research, 2023.

• Efficacy of Benson’s relaxation technique on stress and pain among patients undergoing maintenance hemodialysis: A systematic review. SAGE Open Nursing, 2024.

• Open visitation policy in intensive care units in Jordan: Nurses’ perceptions.

BMC Nursing, 2022.

• Preoperative anxiety and depressive symptoms as predictors of postoperative delirium after coronary artery bypass graft surgery. Nursing in Critical Care, 2025.

• Shaping the future: Perspectives on the integration of artificial intelligence in health profession education: A multi country survey. BMC Medical Education, 2024. 

• Managing during the COVID 19 pandemic: Health care workers’ perceived organizational support and its consequences. Journal of Nursing Management, 2022. 

• Level and predictors of caring behaviours of critical care nurses. BMC Nursing, 2022

• The relationship between self efficacy and functional capacity among discharged heart failure patients in Jordan. Dimensions of Critical Care Nursing, 2024.

• Post acute myocardial infarction differences in physical activity behavior, anxiety, and depression levels. SAGE Open Nursing, 2024.

• Beyond the prescription: Association between illness perception and medication adherence in COPD patients in Jordan. SAGE Open Nursing, 2026.

• Physical activity and cardiac self efficacy levels during early recovery after acute myocardial infarction: A Jordanian study.

Peer reviewed journal (University of Huddersfield Research Portal).

​​• Solutions to bridge the theory–practice gap in nursing education: A qualitative study. BMC Medical Education, 2021. 

• The impact of online teaching on stress and burnout of academics during remote teaching. BMC Medical Education, 2022. 

• Prevalence and predictors of depression, anxiety, and stress among youth during COVID 19. Depression Research and Treatment, 2020. 

​​• Jordanian patients’ family members’ needs in critical care settings: Health informatics perspective. Journal of Healthcare Engineering, 2021. 

• Women’s health concerns in Jordan: Knowledge, practices and barriers toward cervical cancer screening. International Journal of Human Rights in Healthcare, 2021. 

• Postpartum depression experience among Jordanian mothers with hospitalized infants. Global Journal of Health Science, 2019. 

​​​• Prevalence of cyberbullying perpetration and victimization among nursing students in Jordan. SAGE Open Nursing, 2024. 

• Efficacy of psychological interventions in reducing depression among hemodialysis patients. Egyptian Journal of Health Care, 2023. 

• Vertical violence experienced by nursing students during clinical learning.

IOSR Journal of Nursing and Health Science, 2017. 

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 Faculty members from the university​​​
​Dr. Hekmat Yousef Al-Akash​ ​ – Head of Group​Faculty of Nursing/ Applied Science Private University
Dr. Haya Ibrahim Abu Maloh​Faculty of Nursing/ Applied Science Private University
Dr. Rehab Mohamed Hagag​Clinical nursing /Faculty of nursing/ Maternal and child health research group /Applied Science Private University
Lec. Amani Abu Shhadeh​Faculty of Nursing/ Applied Science Private University
​​– ​​ International and local academics​​​​​​​​
Dr. Fatma Refaat Ahmed College of Health Sciences/ University of Sharjah
Dr. Abedalmajeed Methqal Al Shajrawi FACULTY OF HEALTH SCIENCE/ NURSING/ Higher Colleges of Technology-UAE
Dr. Roqia Saleem Awad Maabreh Faculty of Nursing/ Irbid National University
Dr. Ahmad Rajeh Ahmad Safain Faculty of Nursing/ Yarmuk University
Dr. Fatma Mahmoud Mohamed Elemary ​​Faculty of Nursing/Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing/ Ain Shams University/ Jerash University
Ms. Rami Bassam Hussein Shaheen​Independent AI Consultant​