The relationship between the hidden curriculum and fourth-year nursing students' career plans, professional values, and professional readiness: A cross-sectional correlational study.

Objectives: This cross-sectional correlational study investigated the relationship between a hidden curriculum and fourth-year nursing students' career plans, professional values, and professional readiness.

Background: The hidden nursing education curriculum can influence professional outcomes. While nursing curriculum is designed to prepare students to become proficient nurses, the hidden curriculum is linked to unintended learning outcomes.

Exploring the impact of collaborative learning on the development of critical thinking and clinical decision-making skills in nursing students: A quantitative descriptive design.

This study aims to introduce collaborative learning as a method in the Mental Health and Diseases Nursing course for actively enrolled fourth-year nursing students. The objective is to assess the impact of collaborative learning on critical thinking and clinical decision-making among nursing students. Collaborative learning involves the use of small groups to help students identify effective ways of working together to enhance their learning outcomes.

Sexual myths and attitudes regarding sexuality of nursing students: A mixed method study.

Purpose: To determine the nursing students' sexual myths and attitudes regarding sexuality, and to explore their views towards sexual care in practice.

Design And Methods: A mixed-method sequential explanatory design was used. Data were collected using Questionnaire Form, Sexual Myths Scale (SMS), Sexual Attitude and Beliefs Scale (SABS), and Focus-Group Interview Form.

Quality of life for chronic psychiatric illnesses and home care.

Unlabelled: Nowadays, mental illnesses are gradually increasing and so does chronic psychiatric patients. As a result of this increase, chronic psychiatric disorders lead the burden of patients and their families. To reduce the burden of mental illnesses on individuals and their families, treatment and care are given including psychosocial, physiological and medical support and social services.

Effect of Terminal Patient Care Training on the Nurses' Attitudes Toward Death in an Oncology Hospital in Turkey.

This is an experimental research aiming at identifying the effect of terminal patient care training on the nurses' attitudes toward death. The sample of this study (n = 41) involves 20 nurses in the training group and 21 nurses in the control group. Nurses were offered terminal patient care training and their attitudes toward death were assessed before and after the intervention.

Effect of psychoeducation and telepsychiatric follow up given to the caregiver of the schizophrenic patient on family burden, depression and expression of emotion.

Objective: This randomized-controlled experimental study was conducted to determine the effects of psychoeducation in the inpatient clinic and regular telepsychiatric follow-up (via telephone) after discharge on emotional expression, depression and family burden of primary caregivers of the schizophrenic patients.

Methods: This study was performed on 62 caregivers of the schizophrenic patients, assigned to experiment (n=32) and control (n=30) groups, from 1(st) July 2010 to 31(st) May 2011. The Scales for Expressed Emotion, the Beck Depression and the Zarit Family Burden were applied for the caregivers in experiment and control groups before education, after education and after 6-months telephone follow-up.