Gynecology and obstetrics patients' attitudes towards body privacy: A cross-sectional-descriptive study.

Objective: It is extremely important for healthcare professionals to protect patients' privacy during diagnosis and treatment processes related to gynecology and obstetrics and to warn them in case patients' privacy is violated. This study was aimed at determining attitudes of female patients having obstetrics examination towards privacy and raising their awareness of privacy.

Methods: This cross-sectional-descriptive study was conducted with 410 patients who presented to the gynecology and obstetrics outpatient clinic of a university hospital.

Cultural Sensitivity of a Group of Nursing Students' and Attitudes Toward Refugees.

Background: The aim of this study was to evaluate the attitude of nursing students in providing health care to refugees due to cultural differences and to reveal individual factors (age, gender, marital status) affecting negative attitudes.

Method: This cross-sectional descriptive correlational study was conducted to determine the intercultural competence of nursing students and their attitudes toward immigrants in Turkey. The sample of the study consisted of 316 nursing students.

Intensive Care Nurses' Fears about Returning to Work after Recovering from COVID-19: A Qualitative Study.

Background: Experiencing coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) disease is a difficult and exhaustive process. Intensive care unit (ICU) nurses return to the ICU after recovering from COVID-19.

Aim: This study was planned to determine the care difficulties and ethical problems faced by ICU nurses returning to work after being diagnosed with COVID-19.

Attitudes of health professionals towards violence and their tendency to report spousal violence.

The aim of this study is to determine the attitudes of primary care providers, physicians, nurses and midwives towards domestic violence and their tendencies to report violence against women and the affecting factors. The population of this study was 294 health professionals. The mean score on the Domestic Violence was 19.

Relationship Between Physician's and Nurses' Attitudes Towards Futile Treatment and Their Approach to Death and Terminally Ill Patients.

We aimed to determine the relationship between the attitudes of healthcare professionals towards futile treatment and their approach to death and terminally ill patients. We collected the data from nurses-physicians working in the intensive care unit, using the Nurses' Attitudes towards Futile Treatment Scale (NAFTS) and Approach to Death and Dying Patients Attitude Scale (ADDPAS). Avoidant attitudes displayed towards death and terminally ill patients increase as futile treatment is administered more.

Ethical Attitudes of Intensive Care Nurses during Clinical Practice and Affecting Factors.

Background: Technological advances in critical care contribute to patient survival, but healthcare professionals working in these units, which require technical expertise, experience highly challenging ethical decision-making processes.

Aim: The aim of this study is to determine the attitudes of intensive care nurses toward ethical problems they face during clinical practice and the affecting factors.

Method: The study included a total of 294 nurses working in the intensive care units at a city hospital.

Intensive Care Nurses' Anxiety About COVID-19, Approaches to and Attitudes Toward Dying with Dignity Principles During the Pandemic.

While trying to protect themselves from COVID-19, intensive care nurses saved many patients by providing care during the pandemic. The aim of this study is to determine the anxiety levels of nurses working in intensive care units about COVID-19, attitudes toward and approaches to end-of-life care, and attitudes toward dying with dignity. This cross-sectional descriptive study was carried out with 144 nurses.

Relationship between nurses' professional values, empathy, and patience: A descriptive cross-sectional study.

Aim: The aim of this study was to determine the relationships between the nurses' professional values and their empathy and patience levels, and the factors affecting them.

Methods: This descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted with 215 nurses working at a university hospital between February and April 2021. Data were collected using the "Nurse Information Form," "Nurses' Professional Values Scale," "Patience Scale," and "The Toronto Empathy Questionnaire.

Cultural Perceptions of Nursing Students Regarding Pain and Methods Used for Pain Management.

Background: Understanding cultural perception of pain and determining the methods used for pain management contribute to the assessment of the pain experienced by nursing students.

Aims: The aim of this study is to determine the effect of culture on nursing students' perception of pain and the modern, cultural, and traditional methods they use for pain self-management.

Design: This study is a cross-sectional descriptive study.

Levels of uncertainty, fear and satisfaction with health professionals: experiences of parents whose children are hospitalized for COVID-19.

This study tried to determine the fear and tolerance of uncertainty levels of the parents of children hospitalized with COVID-19, and their satisfaction with the health care received during this time. Data were collected from 130 literate parents. A significant difference was found between the mean scores on the Intolerance of Uncertainty Scale (IUS-12) and the age of the parents and the presence of COVID-19 in other family members and the IUS-12.

Individualized care perceptions and moral distress of intensive care nurses.

Background: Intensive care settings are characterized by their structure, which constantly changes in parallel with scientific and technological developments, the uncertainty of the lifeline between birth and death, the challenges in the fair distribution of limited resources, the participation of individuals in medical decisions, and witnessing the pain experienced by individuals. These characteristics also affect the level of moral distress, which can make it difficult for ICU nurses to provide the most appropriate individualized care for their patients.

Aims: The purpose of this study was to determine the moral distress levels and individualized care perceptions of intensive care nurses.

Effect of abdominal massage on bowel evacuation in neurosurgical intensive care patients.

Background: There are many factors, which affect the bowel evacuation of neurosurgical intensive care unit (NICU) patients, resulting in constipation.

Aim And Objectives: The aim of this study was to investigate effect of abdominal massage on bowel evacuation and the risk of constipation in NICU patients.

Design: A prospective, randomized-controlled clinical trial.