Inter-rater reliability in the assessment of consciousness in patients receiving palliative care in intensive care: A prospective cross sectional observational study.

Background: The Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) is one of the methods that has validity for evaluating the consciousness levels of patients in the literature and is accepted by health authorities.

Aim: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the inter-rater reliability of GCS in intensive care patients receiving palliative care.

Study Design: A prospective cross sectional observational study.

[Rational Drug Usage Status of Nursing Students].

Aim: This study was conducted to determine nursing students' rational use of medicines.

Method: The population of this descriptive study was composed of 1177 students who were studying at a faculty of nursing in Istanbul. The study sample, on the other hand, consisted of 303 students who were selected from the population by the "stratified random sampling" method, a probabilistic sampling method.