Strategies to reduce or eliminate medication errors are required.

Nurse job satisfaction and retention are related concepts; nurses who are satisfied in their jobs are likely to retain these jobs.

Jordanian nurses' job satisfaction is on the borderline, which arguably requires more interventions. Patients' satisfaction and quality of nursing care have to be enhanced to reach the levels of 'very satisfied' and 'always' consecutively.

Hospital staff nurses have moderate autonomy which could be increased by more effective support from nurse managers. The use of electronic questionnaires is a promising data collection method.

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