The study provided evidence that nurses respond emotionally to patients' death and experience grief. Nurses are burdened by recurrent patients' deaths and try to cope and overcome their grief. This study emphasizes the importance of developing strategies to help nurses positively cope with their grief from a holistic perspective. This will reflect positively on the nurses' performance.

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The aim of this study was to explore the self-perceived needs for adult family members having critically ill patient, measure to how extent the needs are met and identify who meet the needs. The study took place in critical care units of the largest governmental hospital in Jordan. The study adopted a descriptive cross-sectional design. The Arabic translation of Critical Care Family Need Inventory was used to investigate the needs of convenient samples of 60 adult family members having critically ill patients. Findings revealed that 16 out of 45 need items on the CCFNI were rated as very important in >90% of the sample. The participants ranked need for assurance, information and proximity as the highest; need for support and comfort as the lowest. Families in this study viewed nurses as the most important source to meet their needs. A holistic approach of nursing management requires that nurses assess family needs using valid and reliable tools and develop intervention strategies to meet the identified needs.

Purpose: Explore the quality of sleep and investigate the relationship between sleep quality, using social media platforms, and academic performance among university students.Design and Methods: A cross-sectional correlation design was used, 412 students completed an electronic questionnaire.Findings: The majority of university students suffer from poor quality of sleep. The most frequently used social media platforms were WhatsApp, Snapchat, and YouTube. The strongest predictor of having very poor sleep quality was addiction on twitter. Practice Implications: An educational program about the importance of adequate sleep should be supported university students. K E Y W O R D S sleep, sleep quality, social networking, university students 1 | INTRODUCTION Humans have a biological clock system to preserve bodily functions, such as body temperature, blood pressure, electrolyte levels, heartbeat, circulation, and food ingestion. During sleep, the body secretes growth hormones that maintain the immunological, metabolic, and cardiac systems. The purpose of these systems is; however, impaired by sleep disorders. Sleep deficiency is characterized as insufficiency in sleep quantity or quality required for optimal health and performance often resulting from prolonged wakefulness, inadequate sleep duration, sleep fragmentation, or a sleep disorder. 1 Humans can stand several days of continuous sleeplessness; however, they may have a negative impact on health, deterioration in welfare and effectiveness and lead to deteriorated performance. 2 Seven or more hours per night regularly were required to maintain and improve health. 3 However, sleep deprivation and drowsiness are widespread among university students. 4,5 Because of university lifetime carries new challenges (different social life, academic setting that can have both positive and negative influences on students health, stress factors due to academic achievement, social burdens, split-up from family, and financial distresses) may affect negatively on sleep quality and lead to many problems. 5In addition, sleep deprivation (less than 6-7 hours per day) has negative influences on perception, learning, concentration and thinking strategies, and may lead to vision disturbances, slower reactions, lower capabilities and efficiency of cognitive performance and sick memorizing, schematic thinking, which yields wrong decisions and drop in academic grades. Besides, sleep deprivation

Purpose To assess psychological symptoms in terms of depression, anxiety, and impact of an event associated with the spread of Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19) among nurses working in health sectors in Saudi Arabia and to investigate the relationship between the demographic variables of nurses and psychological symptoms. Design and Methods A cross‐sectional descriptive correlation design using an electronic questionnaire. Finding Of the 1,265 nurses who completed the study, nearly three‐quarters (74%) reported minimal or mild depression. The majority of participants reported minimal or mild symptoms of anxiety and impact of an event. Practice Implications Provides an introductory and evidence‐based study for governments, policymakers, other stakeholders, and nurse educators of the current situation, and suggests possible enhancements and strategies to improve psychological health.