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AIMS: To examine predictive factors affecting stress among nurses providing care at COVID‐19 Isolation Hospitals at Egypt. METHODS: A cross‐sectional study conducted in five Isolation governmental hospitals for COVID‐19. 374 nurses included at the study. Characteristic forms, factors affecting nurses' stress and Nursing Stress Scale (NSS) were used to collect data. RESULTS: (52.1%) of studied nurses had moderate level of total nursing stress scale. Also, (26.2%) of them had severe level, while (13.4% & 8.3%) of them had mild and normal level, respectively. Mean SD score of studied nurses regarding to total nursing stress scale was 99.47 ± 10.671. CONCLUSIONS: Training for COVID‐19, availability of PPE, educational level and attention of hospital administration were negative predictor factors for nurses' stress, while having children, people showed that COVID‐19 is stigma, fears of infection, workplace, fear of transmission infection for family and nurse to patient ratio were positive predictors.

AIM: To assess the effect of abdominal massage pre‐gavage feeding on tolerated feeding for low birth weight (LBW) infants. METHODS: An experimental research design at a government hospital at Egypt. Purposive sample composed of LBW infants was randomly divided into study and control groups each with 60 LBW infants. RESULTS: A total of 55% of the participants in the study group grew sleepy, whereas only 15% of the studied participants in the control group grew sleepy. The abdominal circumference after feeding in the study group was 23.18 ± 2.99 cm, whereas that in the control group was 24.79 ± 2.99 cm. The gastric residual volume in the study group was 0.8 ± 0.10 ml, whereas that in the control group was 3.86 ± 1.03 ml. CONCLUSION: Finally, abdominal massage had a positive impact on the postfeeding state of alertness and feeding tolerance.