Background: Nurses are considered the biggest category among all healthcare 
providers. They play the role of first responders when any situation occurs who will be as first 
handlers, direct nursing care providers. Considerable and continuous effort is required to 
promote nursing participation in decision making (DM) to face the grand expectations of the 
profession and job performance. Aim: assess the relationship between nurses' participation in 
decision making and their job performance. Setting: This study was conducted at the two 
hospitals at Rashid health administration, which are affiliated to the Ministry of Health and 
population. Rashid General Hospital, with bed capacity 100 beds, 14 units, and Edfina 
General Hospital, with bed capacity 32 beds, 5 units, Subjects: The sample included all staff 
nurses who were available at the time of data collection at selected setting. Tools: Two tools 
were used in this study :Tool (1): Participation in Decision Activities Questionnaire (PDAQ) 
It consists of two parts :Part (1): Decision activities related to the caregiving. Part (2) :
Decision activities related to the condition of work. Tool (2): Job Performance scale: It 
consists of 41 items divided into two main dimensions Task Performance and Contextual 
Performance. Results and Conclusion: The result of the present study revealed that there was 
a statistically significant correlation between nurses' participation in DM and their job 
performance declared in high nurses' participation in DM and high nurses' job performance 
at both Rashid general and Edfina central hospitals. Also, nurses perceived a high 
participation in DM related to caregiving and a high contextual performance.
Recommendation: This study suggested an implementation of regular training programs to 
keep nurses up to date regarding participation in D M to improve their performance.