Publications by authors named "Emine Catal"
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- - The study investigates how surgical nurses, general surgeons, and anaesthesiologists use and understand the Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS) protocol in colorectal surgery, highlighting the barriers to its implementation.
- - Conducted across four hospitals, the research involved 268 healthcare professionals, revealing that a significant majority (73.1%) had never heard of the ERAS protocol, and very few correctly implemented its guidelines.
- - Key obstacles to the ERAS protocol's implementation included a lack of knowledge (18.1%), challenges in multidisciplinary collaboration (16.6%), resistance to change (12.4%), and insufficient institutional support (11.4%).
Objective: This descriptive-correlational study was carried out to determine the relationship between emotional intelligence levels and teamwork attitudes of nursing students.
Method: The study has a descriptive-correlational design. A total of 469 nursing students participated in this study.
Aim: We aimed to determine the vaccination status, knowledge, and protective behaviors of healthcare students related to hepatitis B and to examine the related factors.
Method: This cross-sectional study was conducted in seven universities from seven geographical regions of Turkey. The study group included 5451 healthcare students.
Aim: To compare and evaluate operating room nurses' opinions about robotic surgery with their individual innovativeness metric scores. The aim was also to identify the experiences, adaptation processes and influencing factors of operating room nurses working in robotic surgery rooms in Turkey.
Design: This was a comparative descriptive study.
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- The study explores the complex experiences of heart transplant recipients, focusing on their daily lives and the complications they face post-transplantation.
- Conducted through in-depth interviews with 11 participants at a university hospital in Turkey, the research employed qualitative methods to gather rich, detailed insights about their journeys.
- Key findings highlighted three themes: a new life with a new heart, the challenges of managing medication and social stigma, and various coping mechanisms that include faith, family support, and peer counseling.
Background: The Left Ventricular Assist Device (LVAD) is a rapidly spreading treatment given to patients with advanced heart failure due to organ donor shortage. Thus, there is a need to study the life experience of patients who underwent LVAD implantation as a bridge to transplantation.
Objective: To examine the life experiences of patients who underwent LVAD implantation as a bridge to transplantation.