Effects of Active Heating Methods on Body Temperature, Shivering, Thermal Comfort, Pain, Nausea and Vomiting During General Anesthesia: A Randomized Controlled Trial.

To investigate the effect of forced-air warming and heated intravenous (IV) and irrigation fluids alone and in combination on body temperature, shivering, thermal comfort, pain, nausea and vomiting in adult patients undergoing surgery under general anesthesia in a prospective, four-group, randomized controlled trial. After induction of anesthesia, 120 patients were divided into the following groups: patients warmed with forced-air warming ( = 30), patients receiving warmed IV and irrigation fluid ( = 30), patients receiving warmed IV and irrigation fluid with forced-air warming ( = 30), and the control group without any intervention ( = 30). Body temperature, shivering, thermal comfort, pain, nausea and vomiting were monitored in the first 24 hours after surgery.

Pressure injuries in surgical patients: a comparison of Norton, Braden and Waterlow risk assessment scales.

Objective: This study aims to determine the predictive power of the Norton, Braden and Waterlow scales in determining risk of pressure injury (PI) in surgical patients.

Method: This prospective study was carried out in the surgery clinic of a training and research hospital in Istanbul, Turkey between January and April 2017. The study sample consisted of adult patients aged ≥18 years and who did not have PI on admission to the clinic, had abdominal surgery under general anaesthesia and who stayed in the clinic for at least 48 hours.

The effect of pedometer-supported walking and telemonitoring after disc hernia surgery on pain and disability levels and quality of life.

Aim: The aim of this study was to determine the effect of pedometer-supported walking and telemonitoring after lumbar disc hernia surgery on pain and disability levels and quality of life.

Methods: This was a randomized controlled trial with two randomly selected groups conducted between March 2018 and January 2019. Sixty-seven participants (33 in the intervention group and 34 in the control group) who had undergone lumbar microdiscectomy were allocated to receive and not to receive walking exercise.

Examination of Sexual Quality of Life and Dyadic Adjustment among Women with Mastectomy.

Objective: To investigate the effect of mastectomy on sexual quality of life and dyadic adjustment among women with breast cancer.

Materials And Methods: This study was carried out in an analytical and retrospective way by comparing women with mastectomy and the control group who had similarities to this group and did not have breast cancer. The study included 88 women who underwent mastectomy surgery at least 1 year and at most 5 years ago and 88 women who did not undergo mastectomy with matching ages and levels of education.

Reliability and validity of Family Caregiver Quality of Life Scale in heart failure.

Background: In this study, the Family Caregiver Quality of Life scale developed specifically for family caregivers of heart failure patients was translated into the Turkish language, and its reliability and validity was performed.

Methods: The scale was first translated into Turkish and back-translated, adapting it to the Turkish culture. The Turkish questionnaire of the scale was applied to 200 family caregivers.

Validity and Reliability of Turkish Version of the Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy-Brain Questionnaire.

Background: Assessing the quality of life (QOL) of patients with brain tumors is ever more important, given increasing survivorship and the higher likelihood of developing potential morbidities associated with new therapies.

Objective: The aim of this study was to adapt the Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy-Brain (FACT-Br) Questionnaire for Turkish populations and test its validity and reliability.

Methods: The questionnaire was first translated into Turkish and back-translated, adapting it to the Turkish culture.

Do Turkish nursing and midwifery students teach breast self-examination to their relatives?

Aim: To describe health beliefs and breast self-examination (BSE) practice of Turkish female nursing and midwifery students and extent of teaching the screening method to their mothers, sisters and relatives.

Design: In this definition survey, data were obtained from 113 nursing and midwifery students (n = 113) in third and fourth class and their mothers, sisters and other relatives in Turkey.

Methods: Data were collected using a personal data form, a knowledge evaluation form for BSE (Maurer 1997) and the Champion's Health Belief Model Scale.

Do Turkish nursing and midwifery students teach breast self-examination to their relatives?

Aim: To describe health beliefs and breast self-examination (BSE) practice of Turkish female nursing and midwifery students and assess teaching of BSE to their mothers, sisters, relatives.

Methods: The study was designed as a definition survey, withe data obtained from 113 participants, in third and fourth class and their mothers, sisters, relatives in Turkey. Data were collected by using a personal data form, knowledge evaluation form for BSE (Maurer 1997) and the Champion's Health Belief Model Scale.

Historical development and current status of emergency nursing in Turkey.

As the demand for high quality Accident and Emergency Departments and nursing staff increases throughout Turkey, the need for more specialized emergency nurse training has also increased. Although there have been a number of positive developments regarding emergency nursing standards, the general quality of emergency nurse training needs to be improved and job definitions amended to better reflect the specialist duties of emergency nurses.

[Pain severity and analgesia approaches in adult trauma patients].

This study was carried out descriptive for determine trauma patient's pain severity and pain relief approaches. This scope of the research covered 418 patients who were between 18-65 years and applied to emergency unit of two training hospitals because of the trauma in Istanbul. The data of the research were collected by using individual characteristics form and forth section of Mc Gill Pain Questionnaire form.