The effect of a pressure ulcer prevention care bundle on nursing workload costs.

Aim: This study investigated the effect of care under the guidance of a pressure ulcer prevention care bundle on pressure ulcer incidence rates and on nursing workload costs.

Design, Setting, And Participants: This prospective pre-post interventional study was conducted in an anesthesia and reanimation intensive care unit. The sample consisted of 16 nurses and 84 patients.

Effects of Information, Motivation, Behavioral Skills Model on Urinary Incontinence in Men With Overactive Bladder and Urge Incontinence: A Randomized Controlled Trial.

Purpose: The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of an intervention based on and information, motivation, behavioral skills (IMB) model on urinary incontinence symptoms, impact on daily activities, and incontinence-specific quality of life in men with overactive bladder dysfunction (OAB) and urge incontinence.

Design: Parallel-group, open-label, randomized-controlled clinical trial.

Subjects And Setting: The sample comprised 60 male patients admitted to the urology clinic of a training and research hospital in Ankara, Turkey.

Effectiveness of a Pressure Injury Prevention Care Bundle; Prospective Interventional Study in Intensive Care Units.

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to assess the effectiveness of a pressure injury prevention care bundle.

Design: Prospective interventional study.

Subjects And Setting: Participants were 13 nurses and 104 patients cared for in the intensive care unit for at least 24 hours in a university hospital in Ankara, Turkey.

An Investigation of Pain Beliefs, Pain Coping, and Spiritual Well-Being in Surgical Patients.

This study investigated pain beliefs, pain coping, and spiritual well-being in surgical patients. The study adopted a cross-sectional, descriptive, and correlational research design. The sample consisted of 213 voluntary patients admitted to a surgery clinic between April and November 2019.

Does the smartphone use affect the determination of daily goals: A nursing students' example?

Purpose: To examine how the risky use of smartphone in nursing students affects their daily goals.

Design And Methods: A total of 419 nursing students participated in this study. A Descriptive Data Form, Smartphone Addiction Scale-Short Version, and Daily Goals Scale were used to collect the data.

Effect of Reflexology on the Constipation Status of Elderly People.

Background: The current literature shows that one of the alternative therapies used to control constipation is reflexology. This study was conducted to assess the effect of reflexology on the constipation status of elderly people.

Methods: This study was randomized clinical trial conducted from at the private nursing home in the Ankara Province.

Investigation of Nursing Students' Attitudes Towards Death and Their Perceptions of Spirituality and Spiritual Care.

Nurses are responsible for meeting the care needs of dying patients and their families, including their physical, psychological, emotional and spiritual assessment and care. The aim of this descriptive study was to investigate nursing students' attitudes towards death and their perceptions of spirituality and spiritual care. The study sample consisted of 237 second-, third- and fourth-grade nursing students.

Care under the guidance of pressure injury prevention protocol: a nursing home sample.

Pressure injury is a healthcare problem frequently encountered in nursing homes. This study evaluated the effects of the care delivered under the guidance of a protocol for pressure injury prevention at a nursing home. It was implemented in four phases.

The impact of standardized patient interactions on nursing students' preventive interventions for pressure ulcers.

Aim: This study was performed as a quasi-experimental study using a standardized patient simulation program in order to explore the effects of education on the performance and knowledge of undergraduate nursing students with respect to pressure ulcer prevention.

Methods: The study sample consisted of 38 students who completed the study. After the theoretical education portion, the students first knowledge and performance scores were evaluated with the standardized patient program.

Pressure Ulcer Prevention Care Bundle: A Cross-sectional, Content Validation Study.

Unlabelled: A care bundle is an organized set of interventions that encourages compliance with guidelines designed to improve quality of care.

Purpose: This study was conducted to determine the content validity of a previously developed pressure ulcer prevention care bundle.

Methods: A cross-sectional study was performed in a university hospital in Turkey among 95 nurses employed in 8 intensive care units (ICUs) who were invited to use and assess a care bundle based on pressure ulcer guidelines found in the literature and developed by researchers.

Resilience in nurses in terms of perceived social support, job satisfaction and certain variables.

Aim: This study investigated the resilience of nurses, the factors that contribute to resilience, and its relationship with perceptions of social support and job satisfaction.

Background: Resilience plays an important role in how nurses cope with work-related stressors.

Methods: A descriptive study was conducted with 242 nurses working at three public hospitals in Turkey.

The effects of using high-fidelity simulators and standardized patients on the thorax, lung, and cardiac examination skills of undergraduate nursing students.

Background: Existing research literature indicates that the use of various simulation techniques in the training of physical examination skills develops students' cognitive and psychomotor abilities in a realistic learning environment while improving patient safety.

Objectives: The study aimed to compare the effects of the use of a high-fidelity simulator and standardized patients on the knowledge and skills of students conducting thorax-lungs and cardiac examinations, and to explore the students' views and learning experiences.

Design: A mixed-method explanatory sequential design.