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The purpose of this paper is to increase the knowledge of nurses assigned to mental health patients, improve the number of patients referred, and to accurately assess the appropriateness of patients referred to psychiatric screening centers.

The study used a quantitative and qualitative design to examine clinical practices of nurses assigned to triage and crisis duties at the selected screening center. A combined experimental, as well as a review of clinical best practices, offered a perspective on trends, chronology, acuity of a mental illness, the number of times a patient is seen on a psychiatric screening unit, and factors leading up to the referral. The study also included an evaluation of an education module to identify best practices for teaching and testing suicidality triage information among nurses.

Findings were inconclusive in that many hospitals and screening centers in the state of New Jersey exercise their specific/exclusive policies and practices in the management of their populations, despite specific screening laws that are supposed to govern all mental health facilities throughout the state.

Hospital administrators are not always open to scrutiny and investigation of their clinical practices.

There have been limited research studies on the effectiveness of psychiatric screening law and safety of mental health patients in New Jersey.

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a new disease that has led to rapid and dramatic global changes. This study aims to investigate how Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) citizens and noncitizens search for necessary information and assess available information sources, their associated awareness and anxiety levels, voluntary work, compliance with quarantine regulations and technology.

An electronic questionnaire was designed using Google Forms and distributed on Twitter and WhatsApp. In total, 1,006 responses were received.

The results showed that 75.25% of the participants were active information seekers because of their daily search for necessary information. “Formal sources,” “Social media” and “Television” were the most preferred information sources found by the study sample.

This study investigates the behavior of GCC citizens and noncitizens in searching for necessary information during the COVID-19 pandemic. In addition, it draws attention to the importance of digitization and digital preservation in building a specialized digital library for future access to pandemic-related information distributed by the government authorities and institutions in the State of Kuwait.