The Impact of Preangiography Anxiety on Postangiography Comfort in Older Adults: Implications for Perianesthesia Nursing Care.

Purpose: To determine the relationship between anxiety before coronary angiography and comfort after coronary angiography in people over 65 years of age.

Design: A descriptive cross-sectional study.

Methods: The study population consisted of patients aged 65 years and older who agreed to participate in the study and underwent coronary angiography.

The Effect of Nonpharmacological Methods on Preoperative Anxiety in Breast Surgery Patients: Meta-analysis.

Purpose: To investigate the effect of nonpharmacological methods on anxiety before breast surgery, using the meta-analysis method.

Design: A meta-analysis.

Methods: Nine electronic databases were searched to identify studies published up to October 2023.

Relationship between altered taste and smell with malnutrition among hemodialysis patients.

Introduction: Alterations in taste and smell are among the most distressing symptoms experienced by haemodialysis patients. There is limited research on the relationship between these two symptoms and malnutrition in haemodialysis patients. This study aimed to investigate alterations in taste and smell in hemodialysis patients and their relationship with malnutrition.

Nursing Students' Operating Room Experiences: A Qualitative Metasynthesis.

Purpose: This study was conducted to analyze the findings of qualitative studies about nursing students' experiences with operating room (OR) practices. There is a need to conduct metasynthesis studies to highlight the overarching dimensions of nursing students' experiences in the OR learning environment, identify and summarize key elements, draw attention to the professional implications of the experience, and then help define the future research agenda. This original study is the first metasynthesis of qualitative studies focusing on nursing students' OR practice experiences.

Nursing Students' Perception of Missed Perioperative Nursing Care: Hermeneutic Phenomenology.

Purpose: Missed nursing care is a condition that is likely to be encountered frequently in the surgical care process and is generally related to the educational and emotional needs of the patients. Perception of and witnessing missed care can affect nursing images, expectations, and experiences by causing nursing students to experience professional disappointment. The purpose of the study was to explore nursing students' perception of perioperative missed nursing care (PMNC) according to "role theory" and Benner's "novice to expert" theories.