Lasater clinical judgment rubric in nursing education: a Turkish validity and reliability study.

Introduction: Gaining clinical judgment competence among student nurses is a significant outcome of nursing education. In this education process, an assessment tool based on observable behaviors is needed for evaluating students' clinical judgment skills.

Objective: This study aimed to evaluate the validity and reliability of the Turkish version of the Lasater Clinical Judgment Rubric, which assesses student nurses' stages of clinical judgment competency in simulation-based education.

Pressure injuries in the operating room: who are at risk?

Objective: Operating room (OR)-related pressure injuries (PIs) constitute the majority of all hospital-acquired PIs. The aim of this study is to reveal the prevalence and risk factors of OR-related PIs.

Method: This study used a cohort design.

The effects of milking and suction drain management methods in paediatric patients after cardiac surgery.

Aim: The aim of this study is to determine the effects of milking and suction methods on maintaining drain patency following cardiac surgery in paediatric patients.

Methods: This was a randomized controlled trial. The patients were assigned to three groups (suction method, milking method, and control group) between July 2018 and December 2019.

Effect of simulation-based learning on first clinical day stress and anxiety levels of nursing students in Turkey.

Objectives: To determine the effect of simulation-oriented skills training on first clinical day stress and anxiety levels in nursing students.

Methods: The quasi-experimental study was conducted from April to June, 2016, in Istanbul, Turkey, and comprised first year nursing students who were divided into two groups. In Group 1, students measured vital signs on simulated patients before their first clinical practice.

Example of a Simulation Design in Nursing Education: Safe Chemotherapy Administration.

Chemotherapy is one of the treatment methods increasingly used in cancer. In this article, we aimed to share our simulation experiences within the scope of the elective course of Cancer Nursing in the Nursing Internship (4 year) program in the process of teaching safe chemotherapy administration methods. Simulation-based experience should be designed to attain specified educational goals and expected results as best as possible.

Examining the effect of simulation based learning on self-efficacy and performance of first-year nursing students.

Background: Self-efficacy is an individual's belief in oneself and in one's own judgment and ability to be successful in a task. Strong self-efficacy allows for the achievement of success, well-being, personal development and the diversification of skills. An individual's perception of his/her self-efficacy plays a key role in adopting behaviors and initiating and sustaining change.

Use of simulation from high fidelity to low fidelity in teaching of safe-medication practices.

Objective: To evaluate the effects of simulation techniques on learning outcomes in the teaching of safe drug applications to first year nursing students.

Methods: The semi-experimental study was conducted from February to April 2017, and comprised nursing students of Acibadem Mehmet Ali Aydinlar University. This student satisfaction and selfconfidence in learning scale, medication practice via oral route checklist, and pre- and post-test for safe drug application knowledge Assessment were used for data collection.

The Effect of Exaggerated Lithotomy Position on Shoulder Pain after Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy.

Background: The exaggerated lithotomy position with the expertise of nurses can be successful solution for the patients who have the postoperative shoulder pain after laparoscopic cholecystectomy.

Aims: This study aimed to determine the effect of applying an exaggerated lithotomy positions to patients who had laparoscopic cholecystectomy to relieve shoulder pain. The study was conducted on nonrandomized groups and made as a semiexperimental study with a pretest/post-test control group design.

Applying Manual Pressure before Benzathine Penicillin Injection for Rheumatic Fever Prophylaxis Reduces Pain in Children.

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the efficacy of applying manual pressure before benzathine penicillin injection and compare it with the standard injection technique in terms of reducing discomfort in children with rheumatic heart disease grouped by age and gender. This was a single-blind, randomized, crossover study. Fifty-one patients aged 7.

Relationship between student nurses' self-efficacy and psychomotor skills competence.

This study aimed to determine the general self efficacy levels of students studying for undergraduate degree in nursing and to examine the relationship between skills development and self efficacy. The research was conducted in a descriptive way. The sample consisted of 100 students.

Image of nursing held by nursing students according to gender: a qualitative study.

This paper is a report of a study to determine the nursing images of female and male nursing students. The study used a qualitative research design to determine nursing images of male (n = 20) and female (n = 20) nursing students. To analyse the data, the method used content analysis.

Care plans using concept maps and their effects on the critical thinking dispositions of nursing students.

It is expected that nursing education improves abilities of students in solving problems, decision making and critical thinking in different circumstances. This study was performed to analyse the effects of care plans prepared using concept maps on the critical thinking dispositions of students. An experimental group and a control group were made up of a total of 80 freshman and sophomore students from the nursing department of a health school.

Crisis management: the activities of nurse managers in Turkey.

Crisis management is the process of preventing the organization from getting into a crisis and taking the organization out of the situation with minimum costs and losses in sudden crisis situations. A descriptive study design was used to determine the activities of nurse managers regarding crisis management. The most common type of crisis encountered at hospitals was natural disasters such as earthquakes.

[The impact of visits on vital signs of the patients in surgical intensive care unit: a pilot study].

Background: This research was conducted to analyze the impact of visiting patients in the intensive care unit on the vital signs of the patients.

Methods: This descriptive study was conducted at the emergency surgical intensive care unit of a university hospital in Istanbul. The sample consisted of 43 patients aged 18 and above, who stayed at the unit for more than 24 hours.

Prevalence of cancer pain in outpatients registered to a cancer therapy center in Turkey.

Introduction: Although the World Health Organization (WHO) has stated that cancer pain can be controlled in 85-97% of cases with knowledge and technology available today, effective pain control is about 40%. This situation emphasizes the necessity of discussing cancer pain again.

Objective: This descriptive study was conducted with the aim of determining prevalence, severity, region and frequency of cancer pain in patients registered to a cancer treatment center.

The relationship among pressure ulcers, oxygenation, and perfusion in mechanically ventilated patients in an intensive care unit.

Purpose: We examined the relationships among oxygenation, tissue perfusion, and other comorbid conditions not incorporated into the Norton Scale, and pressure ulcer (PU) development in subjects receiving mechanical ventilation.

Design: Descriptive, observational study.

Setting And Subjects: The setting was our university hospital's surgical/emergency intensive care unit in Istanbul province, Turkey.

Change in the health promoting lifestyle behaviour of Turkish University nursing students from beginning to end of nurse training.

In light of developments in science and technology, content has been added to the nursing curriculum to support and improve students' healthy lifestyle behaviours. The aim of this study was to determine whether any difference was observed in the behaviour of nursing students. This longitudinal and descriptive study was conducted with 57 students during 2002-2006 academic years Marmara University, School of Nursing.