Effectiveness of home monitoring according to the Model of Living in hip replacement surgery patients.

Aims And Objectives: To evaluate the effectiveness of home monitoring according to the Model of Living in hip replacement surgery patients.

Background: Hip replacement surgery is important for increasing the quality of life of patients. After these operations, patients may encounter many problems having an impact on their activities of daily living.

Ethical problems observed by student nurses.

This descriptive study was conducted to determine nursing students' observation of ethical problems encountered in their clinical practice. Data were collected through a questionnaire from 153 volunteer nursing students at a university-based nursing school in Ankara, Turkey. The students reported that some patients are either physically or psychologically mistreated by doctors and nurses; they were not given appropriate information; they were subjected to discrimination according to their socio-economic situation; and their privacy was ignored.