Publications by authors named "Merve Tarhan"
Aim: This study aimed to determine the relationship between attitudes towards professional autonomy and nurse-nurse collaboration among nurses.
Background: Professional autonomy is crucial for nurses in today's complex and ever-changing healthcare environment. Therefore, attitudes towards professional autonomy may result in effective collaboration among nurses, one of the nursing roles and responsibilities.
Purpose: To investigate the potential of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)-based total and segmental hippocampus volume analysis in the assessment of cognitive status in Parkinson's disease (PD).
Methods: We divided participants into three groups Group A-Parkinson patients (Pp) with normal cognitive status (n = 25), Group B-Pp with dementia (n = 17), and Group C-healthy controls (n = 37). Three-dimensional T1W Fast Spoiled Gradient Recalled Echo images were used for Volbrain hippocampus subfield segmentation.
Background: One of the challenges experienced by new graduate nurses during the transition into practice is caring for dying patients. This study aimed to determine new graduate nurses' approaches to death and dying patients and the relationship between death anxiety and death awareness.
Methods: This descriptive, cross-sectional study was conducted with 226 new graduate nurses in Istanbul, Türkiye.
Article Synopsis
- Childhood pneumonia is commonly diagnosed with chest x-rays, but this study investigates the effectiveness of ultrasound (US) as a safer alternative to avoid radiation exposure in children.
- The study included 133 children with pneumonia, where both x-rays and US were performed, revealing that US showed higher diagnostic accuracy (0.94) compared to x-rays (0.76).
- Results indicated that the use of thoracic ultrasound can be a reliable and safe imaging method for diagnosing pneumonia in pediatric patients, providing a good level of agreement between different radiologists.
Background: Transition shock is prevalent among new graduate nurses. Coping effectively with stress may be essential for a successful transition into practice. The relationship between transition shock and style of coping with stress remains unexplored.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFInformation: Healthcare professionals' awareness of medical errors and risks results in effective medical error reporting and patient safety. Mindfulness has positive effects on strengthening attention and awareness. However, little is known about the use of mindfulness in patient safety education among nursing students.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Senior nursing students are expected to be ready in terms of professional decisions and practices as soon as possible after graduation. Quality and Safety Education for Nurses (QSEN) is a framework to prepare nursing students for practice in the health care system.
Purpose: This study aimed to explore the effect of repeated exposure to multipatient simulations on senior nursing students' pregraduation transition views, QSEN knowledge level and self-competency, professional readiness, and postgraduation transition shock.
Background: Communication and collaboration with colleagues are crucial for new graduate nurses (NGNs) because of the adaptation to both the healthcare system and professional role. Therefore, working units with effective collaboration among nurses may increase new graduates' work readiness.
Aim: This study aimed to determine the relationship between the perceptions of nurse-nurse collaboration and the work readiness level among NGNs.
Background: The quality of communication and collaboration with colleagues, managers, and physicians affects the intention to leave a job and the profession for new graduate nurses (NGNs). New graduates have difficulties communicating and collaborating with physicians, especially.
Aim: This study aimed to determine the relationship between the attitudes of nurse-physician collaboration and the levels of intention to leave the current job and professional commitment among NGNs.
Background: Bronchoscopic treatment is 1 of the treatment choices for both palliative and definitive treatment of benign tracheal stenosis. There is no consensus on the management of these patients, however, especially patients having complex stenoses. The aim of the present study was to assess, in the largest group of patients with complex stenoses yet reported, which types of tracheal stenosis are amenable to optimal management by bronchoscopic treatment.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFOne of the obstacles to organ donation and transplantation in Turkey is that of religious beliefs and, at this point, religious officials constitute a key aspect of this problem. Positive or negative viewpoints held by religious officials regarding organ donation and transplantation are influential in guiding the public. This descriptive study was conducted for the purpose of describing religious officials' viewpoints on this subject.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFOne of the obstacles to organ donation and transplantation in Turkey is that of religious beliefs and, at this point, religious officials constitute a key aspect of this problem. Positive or negative viewpoints held by religious officials regarding organ donation and transplantation are influential in guiding the public. This descriptive study was conducted for the purpose of describing religious officials' viewpoints on this subject.
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