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Background: COVID-19 has had a significant impact and challenge, especially for nursing practices, and since the quality of nursing care is one of the most important priorities in the field of health care, it has had its share of these challenges and impacts due to the epidemic. The information available about quality of nursing care in healthcare facilities during the COVID-19 pandemic is very limited. Objective: This study aimed to fill this gap by assessing quality of nursing care in respiratory isolation units of coronavirus disease. Methodology: A descriptive cross-sectional design was carried out in four hospitals at isolation units of coronavirus disease from the period (21thDecember, 2021 to 27thJanuary, 2022). A non-probability (convenience) sampling method consists of (112) patient were selected convenience based on the study criteria. The tool used to measure the quality of nursing care is the Patient Satisfaction with Nursing Care Quality Questionnaire-Arabic (PSNCQQ-Ar). Results of the study: presented that patients' satisfaction with quality of nursing care were within high score in all items because the mean more than (3.18), except for item (19) which presented that patient reflected they have low level of health (Mean = 2.8). Conclusion: The level of quality of nursing care provided to patients in the respiratory isolation units for Coronavirus disease was not affected, as the level of quality of care remained high.
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Nowadays, higher education worldwide is affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. It has affected students' attendance in the universities and causes universities to close down in more than 190 countries. On the other hand, novice engineers studied only a few lectures related to highway engineering. Their lectures have included very little knowledge about asphalt pavement construction as highway engineering consists of many areas that are not studied in detail during their studying years subject to their traditional education. Due to all mentioned, a new drive to promote online learning paves the way to evaluate our future approach to curriculum development and delivery of educational materials for engineering courses. However, experts can offer solutions to these problems using their past experience. Hence, a system that allows experts to share their experience with other engineers after completing a project is needed. Nevertheless, the web-based expert system for maintaining flexible pavement problems in tropical regions (ESTAMPSYS) designed in this study is a novel concept. Prior to developing this system, the need for such a system was determined through literature review and validated through a questionnaire survey. Experts were interviewed, and a questionnaire survey was conducted to construct the knowledge base of the system. Knowledge was presented as rules and coded in software through PHP programming. Web pages that support the user interface were designed using a framework that consists of CSS, HTML, and J-Query. Furthermore, the system was tested by an array of users engaged in highway engineering, namely, experts, teaching experts, novice engineers, and students. The mean values of the overall system evaluation performed by 20 users using a five-point Likert scale were 4, 4.5, 3.75, 4.25, 5, 4, and 3.5. Expert and user satisfaction prove the effectiveness of the proposed system. © 2021 Abdalrhman Milad et al.