Publications by authors named "Sergul Duygulu"

Article Synopsis
  • Nurse leaders are under significant pressure, and developing self-leadership skills is crucial for nursing students to succeed before graduation.
  • The study investigated nursing students' self-leadership perceptions and identified factors that influence these perceptions through surveys and focus group interviews.
  • Results indicated that employment, involvement in organizations, and career goals enhance self-leadership, while barriers include comfort zones, overthinking, and procrastination; recommendations were made for nurse educators to create supportive interventions for skill development.
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Aim: To determine the relationship between economic resources (household income), work volition and career adaptability and the perception of future decent work securement of senior nursing students based on the Psychology of Working Theory.

Background: Future decent work securement is essential for young people to successfully enter to working life after graduation. Therefore, identifying factors that affect future decent work can help make nursing a desirable career option.

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Aims And Objective: To investigate the determinants of missed nursing care and to analyse the mediating effect of holistic nursing competence on the relationship between transition shock and missed nursing care.

Background: Transition shock of newly graduated nurses is associated with missed nursing care. Previous studies have shown the determinants of missed nursing care among nurses, but little is known about the relationship between missed nursing care, transition shock and holistic nursing competence.

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Background: Effective nursing leadership improves health care quality, patient well-being, and nursing staff outcomes. Newly graduated nurses face challenges in transitioning into leadership roles. Thus, examining the leadership development interventions for nursing students is critical.

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Aim: To explore the way the nursing profession was portrayed in online news coverage before and after the COVID-19 pandemic.

Background: The power of the media can be used as a tool to introduce nursing services to society, make nursing visible, and influence the public perception of nursing.

Introduction: Analyzing the image of nursing as portrayed in the news can be a guide for more effective management of the media as a tool for positioning nursing in the future and presenting the right message.

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Background: The aim of the study was to test the validity and reliability of the Perceived Future Decent Work Securement Scale for Turkish nursing students.

Methods: A cross-sectional, methodological study design was used. The study was carried out at three nursing undergraduate programs in Turkey during the academic year of 2020-2021 with 336 senior nursing students.

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Objective: The aim of this study is to examine the mediating roles of organizational trust and structural empowerment on the speak-up behavior of oncology nurses.

Background: Organizational trust can create opportunities for a good working environment. Structural empowerment is an important factor affecting the speak-up behavior of nurses.

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Practices that strengthen nurse work environments and enable them to have control over nursing practices have gained importance in recent years as they increase nurses' retention and patient care quality. This study aimed to examine the relationships between structural empowerment and nurse and patient-reported outcomes and the mediating role of control over nursing practices in these relationships. This correlational and cross-sectional study was carried out from September 2018 to May 2019 at two public hospitals in Turkey.

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Objective: This study aimed to investigate university students' risk perception, protective measures, and general health during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic in Turkey.

Methods: The research sample consisted of 1920 university students. The data were collected through an online questionnaire.

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Background: Occurrence and underreporting of needlesticks and other sharps injuries (NSIs) are still immediate concerns among nursing students. This study examined the relationship between occupational health and safety (OHS) awareness and empowerment levels of nursing students and the occurrence and reporting of NSIs.

Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted among purposively selected 840 students in a nursing school in 2018-2019.

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Aims: Rate and number of successful cases in open heart surgery has been increasing due to the advances in medical technology and surgery. To improve patient convalescence results and reduce rate of post-discharge readmission to hospital and unplanned post-discharge rehospitalization, home-care and follow-up process of patients should be managed successfully. To evaluate the effectiveness of Nurse Led Transitional Care Model on the functional autonomy, quality of life, readmission, and rehospitalization rates of elderly patients undergoing open heart surgery.

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Aim: This methodological study aimed to adapt the MISSCARE Survey-Patient, which evaluates patients' experiences regarding nursing care based on their reports, and to test it for validity and reliability in Turkish.

Background: Identifying the missed care interventions on the basis of nurse and patient reports are important to ensure an objective evaluation and develop solutions to the causes behind the failure to meet care needs.

Methods: The study sample consisted of 267 inpatients in the internal and surgery services in a university hospital (n = 267).

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Aim: To explore nurses' self-assessments of power and their opinions regarding factors affecting power in Turkey using a cross-sectional, descriptive study.

Background: In order to safely and cost-effectively care for patients, nurses must perceive themselves as powerful and have the use and control of power resources.

Method: The study sample consisted of 297 nurses in six hospitals: two government hospitals, two university hospitals and two private hospitals.

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This descriptive study at one university in Turkey aimed to document nursing students' views on involvement of service users in clinical practice assessments. The study sample was comprised of 179 baccalaureate degree nursing students in their second, third, and fourth years of study. Data were collected using a questionnaire developed by the researchers.

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One measure of the process of nursing care is missed nursing care, which refers to any aspect of required care that is omitted either in part or in whole or delayed. Little is understood about how the quality and processes of nursing care differs among countries around the world. The aims of this study were (a) to test the psychometric properties of the MISSCARE Survey-Turkish and (b) to compare the extent and type of missed care as well as reasons for missing care between Turkey and the United States.

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The purpose of this study was to determine nursing students' leadership and emotional intelligence. The study was conducted as a descriptive study in a nursing school in 2008. The sample comprised 69 junior and 85 senior nursing students and was based on voluntary participation.

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Aim: This paper is a report of an evaluation of the effects of a transformational leadership training programme on Unit Charge Nurses' leadership practices.

Background: Current healthcare regulations in the European Union and accreditation efforts of hospitals for their services mandate transformation in healthcare services in Turkey. Therefore, the transformational leadership role of nurse managers is vital in determining and achieving long-term goals in this process.

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