title: Investigating critical care nurses' perception regarding enteral nutrition.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Evidences showed that nurses lack the needed knowledge to administer nutritional care. Besides, nutritional information was found to be incomplete in patients' record, and nurses' responsibilities regarding EN were not well understood. In Jordan, literature regarding nurses' perceptions of EN is scarce.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  To investigate critical care nurses' perceptions regarding enteral nutrition (EN) of critically-ill adult patients.
  
  
  METHODS
  A descriptive, cross-sectional, comparative design was used to collect data from 151 Jordanian critical care nurses utilizing the Nurses' Perception of Enteral Nutrition Questionnaire.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Nurses in private hospitals scored the highest in regard to responsibility and support from documentation. Education, internet, and nursing school were the primary sources of EN knowledge. Besides, female nurses differ significantly from male nurses in regard to the perception of responsibility of EN.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Awareness of responsibility, supportive documentation system, and implementation of the current evidences of EN in the actual daily practices can be used to improve EN practices.
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Nursing, The University of Jordan, Amman 11942, Jordan. Electronic address: m.darawad@ju.edu.jo.
authors.forename: Muhammad W
authors.initials: MW
authors.lastname: Darawad
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Nursing, The University of Jordan, Amman 11942, Jordan. Electronic address: s.hammad@ju.edu.jo.
authors.forename: Sawsan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Hammad
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Nursing, The University of Jordan, Amman 11942, Jordan. Electronic address: m.alhussami@ju.edu.jo.
authors.forename: Mahmoud
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Al-Hussami
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Nursing, The University of Jordan, Amman 11942, Jordan. Electronic address: e.hourani@ju.edu.jo.
authors.forename: Eman
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Haourani
authors.affiliation: College of Nursing-King Saud University, Riyadh 11492, Saudi Arabia. Electronic address: aaboshaiqah@ksu.edu.sa.
authors.forename: Ahmad E
authors.initials: AE
authors.lastname: Aboshaiqah
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Nursing, The University of Jordan, Amman 11942, Jordan; Department of Nursing, Al Farabi College, Riyadh 11514, Saudi Arabia. Electronic address: a.mansour@ju.edu.jo.
authors.forename: Ayman M
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Hamdan-Mansour
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D002983:Clinical Competence; D003422:Critical Care; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D004282:Documentation; D004750:Enteral Nutrition; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007597:Jordan; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009741:Nursing Staff, Hospital / Q000193:education*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: Education; Enteral nutrition; Jordan; Nurses