The effect of game-based learning on the acquisition of intramuscular injection skills.

Aim: This study aims to determine the efficiency of game-based learning in nursing students' IMI skills training.

Background: Today, with the unstoppable development of digital technologies, the skills required by modern health services and the needs of nursing students have changed. For this reason, new teaching methods have been researched instead of traditional methods.

Nurses' knowledge of, attitudes towards and awareness of the metaverse, and their future time perspectives: a cross-sectional study.

Background: The metaverse is a new and developing technology used in the field of healthcare. The perception of future explains time as a psychological phenomenon rather than a physical one. This study aimed to determine nurses' thoughts of the metaverse and their perceptions of future.

Bibliometric and content analysis of ChatGPT research in nursing education: The rabbit hole in nursing education.

Aim: This study was conducted to perform the bibliometric and content analysis of ChatGPT studies in nursing education.

Background: ChatGPT is an artificial intelligence-based chatbot developed by OpenAI. The benefits and limitations of the use of ChatGPT in nursing education are still discussed; however, it is a tool having potential to be used in nursing education.

"A different country, a different language, a different culture…" Educational experiences of international nursing students studying in Turkey: A qualitative study.

Aim: This study was aimed at investigating the educational experiences of international nursing students in Turkey.

Background: Nursing education has now gained an international dimension, which creates an environment where students from different cultures come together. In Turkey, nursing education is expanding internationally due to the increasing number of international students.

Mobile learning in nursing education: A bibliometric analysis and visualization.

Aim: This study performed a bibliometric analysis of studies related to mobile learning in the field of nursing education.

Methods: The Scopus database was used to determine the most frequently cited studies on mobile learning in nursing education. VOSviewer and Bibliometrix were employed for bibliometric analysis and visualization.

Investigation of Anxiety Levels of Nursing Students Related to Intravenous Interventions and Factors Affecting the Anxiety.

This descriptive type study was conducted in order to determine the anxiety levels experienced by nursing students during IV intervention and the factors causing anxiety. The study was completed with a total of 260 students, 86 of whom were year-2, 72 were year-3, and 102 were year-4 students, who voluntarily participated in the study. Data were collected online with a Google survey using the Personal Information Form and the Trait Anxiety Inventory.

Determination of nursing students' attitudes toward and readiness for mobile learning: A cross-sectional study.

Background: Mobile learning is a learning method that enables nursing students to learn anytime and anywhere.

Objectives: This study was designed to determine nursing students' attitudes toward and readiness for mobile learning.

Design: A descriptive, cross-sectional study design was used.

Artificial intelligence and robot nurses: From nurse managers' perspective: A descriptive cross-sectional study.

Aim: This research was planned to identify nurse managers' opinions on artificial intelligence and robot nurses.

Background: As the concepts of artificial intelligence and robot nurses are becoming widespread in Turkey, nurse managers are expected to guide and cooperate with nurses in the future in regard to these technologies.

Methods: The sample of the study consisted of 326 manager nurses, who were reached via the online questionnaire during the period of September to November 2021.

Effects of music on sleep quality and comfort levels of pregnant women.

Objectives: This pilot randomized controlled experimental study was conducted to investigate effects of music on sleep quality and comfort levels of pregnant women.

Methods: The sample of the study consisted of 70 pregnant women who met the inclusion criteria and agreed to participate in the study. The pregnant women were assigned to the music (n=35) and control groups (n=35).

Does the use of infrared technology (AccuVein AV-500®) for Peripheral Intravenous Cannulation (PIVC) increase the success rate in nursing students? A randomized controlled trial.

Background: PIVC is one of the essential procedures of modern medicine, and is one of the most widely used and important treatments in the clinical setting. Nevertheless, it is one of the most difficult skills to teach in nursing education, and it is the skill which causes the most anxiety in nursing students.

Objectives: The aim of the study was to examine the effect of the teaching method using infrared technology on PIVC success, duration, and the level of psychomotor skills and knowledge in the acquisition of PIVC skills in nursing students.

Validity and reliability study of the Moral Distress Questionnaire in Turkish for nurses.

Objective: to determine the validity and reliability of the Turkish language version of the Moral Distress Questionnaire for nurses.

Method: methodological study whose sample consisted of 200 nurses working in the internal medicine and surgery clinics of a university hospital. Data was collected using the personal information form and the Moral Distress Questionnaire for nurses.

The Effect of Therapeutic Touch on the Comfort and Anxiety of Nursing Home Residents.

Nurses are increasingly using energy therapies such as therapeutic touch (TT) in many countries. This research aimed at finding out the effects of TT on comfort and anxiety of nursing home residents. This research is a quasi-experimental randomized control study which was conducted to investigate the impact of TT on the comfort and anxiety of older people living in a nursing home in İzmir, Turkey, between August 2015 and 2016.

Psychometric Characteristics of the Turkish Version of the Nurse Comfort Questionnaire.

The aim of this study was to determine psychometric characteristics of the Turkish version of the Nurse Comfort Questionnaire (NCQ). The sample of the study comprised 275 nurses in the western part of Turkey. To collect the study data, the Sociodemographic Characteristics Questionnaire and NCQ were used.

Effect of Therapeutic Touch on Sleep Quality in Elders Living at Nursing Homes.

This study was carried out to investigate the effect of therapeutic touch on sleep quality in the elderly people living in the nursing homes. The study is a randomized controlled experimental study (pretest-posttest control group). The sample of the research consisted of 25 elderly people.

Effects of Hand Massage and Therapeutic Touch on Comfort and Anxiety Living in a Nursing Home in Turkey: A Randomized Controlled Trial.

This study was carried out to investigate the effects of hand massage and therapeutic touch on comfort and anxiety in the elderly living in nursing homes. The study was designed as a randomized controlled, experimental study (with a pre- and posttest control group). The study population comprised 255 older people aged 65-89 living in a nursing home in Izmir, a province in Turkey.

The Effect of Music on the Comfort and Anxiety of Older Adults Living in a Nursing Home in Turkey.

The study was designed as a randomized controlled experimental study with a pretest/posttest and a control group. The study sample comprised 56 seniors who resided in a nursing home. The study data were collected using the "Mini-Mental State Examination," "Identification Form," "General Comfort Questionnaire," and "Beck Anxiety Inventory.

Effectiveness of online education in teaching breast self- examination.

Background: This research evaluated the effectiveness of an online education model in teaching breast self- examination to university staff and students.

Materials And Methods: 1,679 women participated in a breast self-examination online training program. Breast self-examination knowledge evaluation forms developed by Maurer (1997) were used in the research and were evaluated on a 100 point scale.

Comfort and anxiety levels of women with early stage breast cancer who receive radiotherapy.

Background: The aim of this planned research was to determine the comfort and anxiety levels of women with breast cancer receiving radiotherapy.

Materials And Methods: This descriptive type study covered patients that applied to the radiation oncology breast polyclinic of our university hospital between January and May 2011. Patient Identification Form, Radiation Therapy Comfort Questionnaire (RTCQ), Spielberger State Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI) were completed and analysed.

Determining the factors that affect breast cancer and self breast examination beliefs of Turkish nurses in academia.

Purpose: To define factors that affect the performance status of BSE and confidence of student nurses.

Materials And Methods: This descriptive study was conducted in the academic year 2010-2011 in a nursing faculty in I?zmir, Turkey. "Informative data form" and "Champion's Revised Health Belief Model Scale (CHBMS)" were used as data collection forms.

Nursing diagnoses in patients having mechanical ventilation support in a respiratory intensive care unit in Turkey.

This research was carried out to find out the nursing diagnoses in patients who have mechanical ventilation support in a respiratory intensive care unit. The study was conducted with 51 evaluations of critically ill adult patients who underwent invasive and non-invasive mechanical ventilation therapy in 2008. Data collection was based on Gordon's 11 Functional Health Patterns, and nursing diagnoses were determined according to North American Nursing Diagnosis Association-International (NANDA-I) Taxonomy II.

Nursing diagnoses in elderly residents of a nursing home: a case in Turkey.

There are limited studies on nursing diagnoses of the elderly living in nursing homes worldwide. This study aimed to define the most frequent nursing diagnoses in the elderly residents of a nursing home elder care and rehabilitation center. Seventy-four elderly individuals were included in the study.