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Background: Today evidence-based practice (EBP) has been accepted as one of the best ways for making clinical decisions that has an effect on health care outcomes and improves the quality of care provided to patients. Aim of the study: Assess nursing staff awareness about evidence based practice facilitations, barriers and beliefs at Belqas Central Hospital (BCH). Subject and methods: Cross sectional design was used and the study was conducted on 228 nursing staff. Data was collected using evidence based practice (EBP) questionnaire, Facilitators to change practice based on evidence based practice scale, barriers to find, use and review evidence scale and evidence based practice beliefs scale. Results: revealed that personal experience was the main source of knowledge that nursing staff used in practice and most of them were competent in finding, reviewing and using evidence in practice. Also, the highest total mean score of facilitations was related to organizational structure and health care environment while the lowest mean score was related to research information. As well as the highest total mean score of barriers was related to individual nurse characteristics while the lowest mean score was related to research information. Also 69% of nursing staff were agreeing with EBP, realizing its benefits and importance. Conclusion: nursing staff focus on their experience and ways that always used in providing nursing care as a source for their information. In addition to most of them were competent in finding, reviewing and using evidence to change practice. Organizational structure and health care environment was perceived as a main facilitation of EBP, while individual nurse characteristics were perceived as the highest barriers of EBP. Most nursing staff had positive beliefs about EBP and realized its benefits in health care system. Also, positive beliefs about EBP contributed to more nursing staff awareness about EBP its facilitation and barriers. Recommendations: : Ongoing training programs about EBP for nursing staff, maintaining adequate staffing in different shift to relieve nurses’ workload and help them to attain workshops and scientific conferences that updating and increasing their knowledge about EBP. Providing organizational support for EBP implementation. Translating the most relevant researches and distributed them for nurses to apply in practice to overcome the English language barrier.