<span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"> </span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-layout-grid-align: none;"><span style="line-height: 200%; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Objective:</strong> Adopting principles of evidence-based in nursing education assists nursing graduates to improve their practice.However, there are factors influencing this adoption. Nurse educators need to identify these factors so that the educationalplans based on evidence-based principles can be made. This study aimed to identify the perceived factors influencingadopting evidence-based principles in nursing education among nurse educators in Jordanian Universities.</span></p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"> </span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-layout-grid-align: none;"><strong><span style="line-height: 200%; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Methods: </span></strong><span style="line-height: 200%; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">A descriptive, cross-section research design was used on a convenience, purposive sample of 85 nurseeducators teaching in one of ten Jordanian Universities. Evidence-Based Nursing Education Questionnaire items werederived following a four-step approach; extensive literature review; thematic analysis of literature; expert opinion in thequestionnaire items; and the psychometric testing of the questionnaire.</span></p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"> </span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 2.4pt 0pt 0in; line-height: 200%; mso-layout-grid-align: none;"><strong><span style="line-height: 200%; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Results:</span></strong><span style="line-height: 200%; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> Factors that influence the adoption of evidence-based principles in nursing education programs are: knowledge ineducational principles, finding and reviewing evidence, faculty practices, change in education strategies/practices, andfinding and judging evidence.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 2.4pt 0pt 0in; line-height: 200%; mso-layout-grid-align: none;"><strong style="text-indent: 43px;"><span style="line-height: 200%; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Conclusion:</span></strong><span style="line-height: 200%; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"> Addressing the factors found in this study increases the awareness of experts to develop strategies thatpromote the use of evidence-based principles, and increase the probability of faculty adopting them in nursing education.</span></p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"> </span>