| Nursing management and leadership | Nursing care quality | Job description of nurses (4.53±0.62) | Clarifying job description of nurses with different backgrounds of nurses | 4.53 | 0.62 |
| (4.37±0.12) | Standard of nursing | Developing and updating nursing care standard | 4.76 | 0.44 |
| | care (4.50±0.09) | Developing nursing care standard for common diseases in specific nursing area | 4.59 | 0.71 |
| | | Evaluating nursing outcome | 4.47 | 0.62 |
| | | Setting goals of nursing care | 4.35 | 0.61 |
| | | Evaluating the effectiveness and efficiency of nursing care | 4.35 | 0.61 |
| | Evidence-based | Applying evidence based on nursing practice | 4.59 | 0.62 |
| | practice (4.43±0.04) | Increasing nursing research skills and knowledge for staff nurse | 4.41 | 0.62 |
| | | Identifying nurse awareness of roles in nursing research | 4.29 | 0.69 |
| | Nursing care delivery (4.29±0.01) | Identifying nurse:patient ratio and its effect on quality of nursing care | 4.41 | 0.62 |
| | | Model of nursing care delivery (effect on nursing care quality) | 4.18 | 0.64 |
| | Innovation in nursing | Integrating technology in nursing practice | 4.29 | 0.69 |
| | practice (4.26±0.42) | Attitude of nurses toward the use of technology | 4.23 | 0.75 |
| | Nursing | Nurse attitude toward nursing documentation | 4.23 | 0.75 |
| | documentation (4.14±0.20) | Identifying the quality of nursing documentation in the nursing process | 4.06 | 1.03 |
| | Nurse attitude and awareness toward quality (4.12±0.70) | Evaluating the nurse attitude, awareness, and compliance toward nursing standard and care quality | 4.12 | 0.70 |
| Management and leadership | Quality of leadership and management | Evaluating the quality of leadership and management of nurse managers | 4.53 | 0.62 |
| of managers nurse | (4.38±0.20) | Evaluating the leadership styles of nurse managers | 4.23 | 0.9 |
| (4.36±0.15) | Supervision | Evaluating nurse manager supervision model | 4.41 | 0.94 |
| | (4.35±0.14) | Developing key performance indicator for supervising nurse staff | 4.29 | 0.92 |
| Nursing image | Perception on | Perception of community on professional nursing image | 4.29 | 0.69 |
| (4.21±0.17) | professional nursing image (4.21±0.17) | Perception of nurses and other health professionals on nursing image | 4.12 | 0.93 |
| Professional | Standard competency | Identifying factors influencing professional nurse competency | 4.29 | 0.77 |
| nurse | of nurses (4.16±0.03) | Providing intervention to increase nurse competency | 4.23 | 0.75 |
| competency (4.16±0.03) | | Developing standard of nurse competency for different professional nurse competency levels – mixed level | 4.17 | 0.81 |
| | | Measuring and evaluating nurse competence (skill, knowledge, attitude), behavior and performance, and decision-making | 3.94 | 0.75 |
| Human | Nurse career | Nurse satisfaction about nursing career | 4.17 | 0.88 |
| resource | (4.05±0.11) | Evaluating clinical ladder of nurses | 3.94 | 1.03 |
| management (3.96±0.14) | Continuing professional | Evaluating the process of continuing professional development of staff nurse | 4 | 0.94 |
| | development (3.94±0.04) | Identifying factors influencing the intention of nurses to join training, course, and education | 3.89 | 0.99 |
| | Work motivation for staff nurses (3.94±1.25) | Identifying factors influencing work motivation of nurses, such as salary and working environment | 3.94 | 1.25 |
| | Recruitment of nurse staff (3.82±0.88) | Evaluating the recruitment process of new staff nurses | 3.82 | 0.88 |
| Nursing education | Knowledge- specific | Quality of teaching learning (4.63±0.01) | Developing and evaluating teaching learning approaches that relate to evidenced-based practice | 4.65 | 0.49 |
| domain | | Evaluating nursing student practice in the laboratory | 4.65 | 0.49 |
| (4.63±0.01) | | Identifying the effectiveness of the quality of teaching learning | 4.59 | 0.51 |
| The linkage between | Curriculum model (4.65±0.61) | Evaluating curriculum models for professional education | 4.65 | 0.61 |
| education and practice | Learning outcome (4.53±0.62) | Measuring learning outcome | 4.53 | 0.62 |
| (4.53±0.06) | Education model (4.41±0.71) | Identifying and evaluating education model focusing on delivery of patient-centered care | 4.41 | 0.71 |
| Nurse teacher workforce | Teacher–student ratio (4.06±1.03) | Examining the impact of the teacher–student ratio on the learning outcome | 4.06 | 1.03 |
| (4±0.04) | Faculty competency (3.94±0.97) | Identifying creative approaches to enhance nursing faculty competency | 3.94 | 0.97 |
| Nursing service | Adult nursing concern (4.29±0.07) | Wound care management (4.41±0.71) | Wound care management | 4.41 | 0.71 |
| | Pain management (4.29±0.85) | Pain management | 4.29 | 0.85 |
| | Management of end- of-life or palliative care (4.18±0.81) | Management of end-of-life or palliative care | 4.18 | 0.81 |
| Patient safety | Nursing-sensitive | Developing nursing-sensitive indicator standard | 4.29 | 1.05 |
| (4.29±0.14) | indicator (4.29±0.14) | Evaluating nursing-sensitive outcome indicators (“prevalence of pressure ulcer”, “falls and falls with injury”, “nosocomial selective infection”, “nosocomial urinary tract infection”, “medication error”, “pneumonia”, “vein system complication”, “failure to rescue”, “restraint”, “sepsis”, “gastrointestinal bleeding”, and “shock”). Patient-related perception included “patient/family satisfaction with nursing care” and “patient/family satisfaction with pain management”. Patient-related use of health care included “length of stay”, “waiting time of nursing care”, and “unplanned hospital visits post discharge”. Patient-related functional status included “vital sign status” and “self-care ability” | 4.29 | 0.85 |
| Public health | Community strategies | Early detection of disease | 4.41 | 0.62 |
| nursing concern | to reduce health risks (4.41±0.06) | Developing strategies/intervention to reduce health risks | 4.41 | 0.71 |
| (4.25±0.09) | Family care, caregiving, and preventive mental health (4.18±0.64) | – | 4.18 | 0.64 |
| | Culturally appropriate | Models of self-care for patients with chronic diseases | 4.29 | 0.69 |
| | lifestyle intervention | Identifying the effectiveness of nursing home care | 4.17 | 0.81 |
| | for health promotion, primary and secondary prevention, risk reduction, and health-seeking behavior across the lifespan (4.17±0.08) | Developing and evaluating rehabilitation programs for patients with chronic diseases in the community | 4.06 | 0.83 |
| Quality of life | Quality of life of | Patient satisfaction of nursing services | 4.23 | 0.75 |
| (4.13±0.14) | patients (4.18±0.02) | Identifying the quality of life of patients, especially patients with chronic diseases | 4.12 | 0.78 |
| | Quality of working life of nurses (4.09±0.11) | Working stress environment and the impact on nursing performance | 4.12 | 1.05 |
| | | Identifying quality of life of nurses | 4.06 | 0.9 |
