The effect of music therapy and breathing exercise on anxiety and pain in patients undergoing coronary angiography: A randomized controlled study.

Background: For over 50 years, music therapy and breathing exercises have been widely utilized as interventions to help individuals cope with fatigue, stress and pain globally.

Aim: To analyse the effects of music and breathing exercises on anxiety and pain in patients undergoing coronary angiography.

Study Design: This is a single-blind, randomized controlled trial.

Accuracy of liquid drug dose measurements using different tools by caregivers: a prospective observational study.

This study aimed to assess the accuracy of liquid drug dose measurements made by caregivers and explore the factors influencing these measurements. Caregivers (n = 176) of children aged less than 8 years, who were treated at the pediatric clinic of a university hospital in Turkey between July and October 2019, were eligible to participate in this study. The caregivers' ability to accurately measure a 2.

A point prevalence study of medical device-associated pressure injuries: A cross-sectional study.

Aim And Objective: The aim of this cross-sectional study was to determine the point prevalence and associated risk factors of medical device-related pressure injuries (MDRPI) in intensive care patients in Turkey.

Background: MDRPI remain a clinical problem that has garnered the attention of healthcare professionals.

Design: This study used a cross-sectional design and was conducted over a single day in all intensive care units.

Investigation of the Necessity of Aspiration During the Intramuscular Injection Administered in the Ventrogluteal Site and Its Effect on Pain: A Randomized Controlled Trial.

This experimental study, which was conducted to examine the necessity of aspiration procedure and its effect on pain in intramuscular (IM) injections made into the ventrogluteal site (VGS), is randomized controlled and double-blind. The patients in the study group ( = 834) were assigned to the IM group with the aspiration period of 5 to 10 seconds (Implementation Group A-IGA), the aspiration period of 1 to 2 seconds (Control Group-CG), and no aspiration (Implementation Group B-IGB) according to stratified block randomization list. Patients' pain levels were evaluated with the Visual Analog Scale (VAS).

Frequency of Clinical Alarms in Intensive Care Units and Nurses' Sensitivity to Them: An Observational Study.

Background: All clinical alarms require nurses to respond even if an intervention is not needed. Nurses are expected to respond appropriately to each alarm and establish priorities among their care practices accordingly. This study was conducted to examine the number and types of clinical device alarms used in intensive care units, the duration of their activation, and nurses' degree of sensitivity to them.

Impact of the fluorescent concretization intervention on effectiveness of hand hygiene in nursing students: A randomized controlled study.

Background: Hand hygiene is the most effective and simplest infection control method but there is a considerable amount of evidence that shows hand hygiene skills of nursing students should be improved. Nursing education plays an important role in giving nursing students the necessary knowledge, beliefs and teaching and improving basic hand hygiene skills. An effective learning method that enables students to understand both the practical skills and the underlying theoretical principles should be used in teaching hand hygiene.

Examining the hand hygiene beliefs and practices of nursing students and the effectiveness of their handwashing behaviour.

Aims And Objectives: To examine the hand hygiene beliefs and practices of Turkish nursing students and the effectiveness of their handwashing.

Background: Handwashing is the most important part of preventing cross-infection, but there is a considerable amount of evidence that shows that the handwashing technique of nurses and nursing students is not always very effective.

Design/methods: This research was carried out in two stages and is type of descriptive, analytical and observational.

Assessing the Validity and Reliability of a New Pressure Ulcer Risk Assessment Scale for Patients in Intensive Care Units.

Unlabelled: The high incidence of pressure ulcers/injuries (PU/Is) among patients in intensive care units (ICUs) suggests a need for improved risk assessment.

Purpose: The study aimed to develop and assess the validity and reliability of a new PU/I risk assessment scale.

Methods: The authors developed the Efteli Günes (EFGU) Pressure Ulcer Risk Assessment Scale based on a conceptual framework of risk factors developed by Coleman et al.

Sacral Skin Temperature and Pressure Ulcer Development: A Descriptive Study.

Unlabelled: Existing evidence is inadequate to assume increased skin temperature is a risk factor for the development of pressure ulcers (PUs).

Purpose: The purpose of this prospective, descriptive study was to examine the relationship between sacral skin temperature and PU development.

Methods: Using convenience sampling methods, patients who were hospitalized in the tertiary intensive care unit (ICU) of the internal medicine department of a university hospital in İzmir, Turkey, between April and December 2015 were eligible to participate if they were ⟩18 years of age, had an expected hospital stay of at least 5 days, a Braden score ≤12, and were admitted without a PU.

The effect on pain of three different nonpharmacological methods in peripheral intravenous catheterisation in adults.

Aims And Objectives: To compare the effectiveness in reducing pain during peripheral intravenous catheterisation of coughing, blowing into a spirometer and squeezing a stress ball.

Background: Peripheral intravenous catheterisation is widely performed by nurses; it causes pain and discomfort to patients.

Design: This was a single-blind randomized controlled study.

Evaluation of oxygen saturation values in different body positions in healthy individuals.

Aims And Objectives: The research was conducted to evaluate oxygen saturation values measured in healthy individuals in different body positions.

Background: Changes in position affect ventilation-perfusion rates, oxygen transport and lung volume in normal lungs. There have been few studies and not enough information about which positioning of a healthy individual can increase oxygenation.

Predictive validity and reliability of the Turkish version of the risk assessment pressure sore scale in intensive care patients: results of a prospective study.

Multiple pressure ulcer (PU) risk assessment instruments have been developed and tested, but there is no general consensus on which instrument to use for specific patient populations and care settings. The purpose of this study was to determine the reliability and predictive validity of the Turkish version of the Risk Assessment Pressure Sore (RAPS) instrument, which includes 12 variables--5 from the modified Norton Scale, 3 from the Braden Scale, and 3 from other research results--for use in intensive care unit (ICU) patients. The English version of the RAPS instrument was translated into Turkish and tested for internal consistency and predictive validity (sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive value, and negative predictive value) using a convenience sample of 122 patients consecutively admitted to an ICU unit in Turkey.

Factors contributing to medication errors in Turkey: nurses' perspectives.

Aim: The aim of this study was to describe the experiences of nurses with regard to medication errors.

Background: Medication errors result in a significant proportion of the deaths related to avoidable medical errors in hospitals.

Design: A descriptive cross-sectional study.

A comparison of 3 wound measurement techniques: effects of pressure ulcer size and shape.

Purpose: The aim of this study was to examine the levels of agreement among 3 techniques used in wound measurement comparing more spherical versus irregularly shaped wounds.

Design: The design of this study is evaluative research.

Subjects And Setting: Sixty-five consecutive patients with 80 pressure ulcers of various sizes referred from a university hospital in Izmir, Turkey, were evaluated.

The validity and reliability of the Turkish version of short-form McGill Pain Questionnaire in patients with leukemia.

Aims And Objectives: To assess reliability and validity of the Turkish version of the Short-form McGill Pain Questionnaire.

Background: Pain is one of the most frequent and significant problems encountered by nurses practice across the world. The Short-form McGill Pain Questionnaire was widely translated and used to assess the pain experience of several types of patients because it combines the properties of the standard McGill Pain Questionnaire but takes substantially less time to administer.

Effect on pain of changing the needle prior to administering medicine intramuscularly: a randomized controlled trial.

Aim: This paper is the report of a study to determine whether changing the needle before administering an intramuscular injection could reduce pain, and to investigate gender differences in pain perception.

Background: A skilled injection technique can make the patient's experience less painful and avoid unnecessary complications, and the use of separate needles to draw up and administer medication ensures that the tip of the needle is sharp and free from medication residue.

Method: A randomized controlled trial was carried out between January 2009 and May 2009 with 100 patients receiving diclofenac sodium intramuscularly in an emergency and traffic hospital in İzmir, Turkey.

Comparison of agreement between different measures of blood pressure in normotensive females.

The aim of this study was to determine whether there are differences between nurse-taken blood pressure (BP), physician-taken BP, and automated device. BP was measured in 163 normotensive females. In a center for family planning and mother-child health, measurements were taken by a male physician and by a nurse and by using a validated automatic device.

A study of Turkish critical care nurses' perspectives regarding family-witnessed resuscitation.

Aim: . This paper reports a study to determine the experiences and attitudes of Turkish critical care nurses concerning family presence during cardiopulmonary resuscitation.

Background: The debate surrounding family-member presence in resuscitation areas has been evolving since the 1980s.

A prospective study evaluating the Pressure Ulcer Scale for Healing (PUSH Tool) to assess stage II, stage III, and stage IV pressure ulcers.

Many valid and reliable tools and techniques are available for wound measurement. However, few prospective clinical studies assessing these instruments have been conducted. A prospective, methodological study was conducted between September 2006 and November 2007 to evaluate use of the Pressure Ulcer Scale for Healing (PUSH) version 3 in patients with one or more pressure ulcer.

Does the body temperature change in older people?

Aim: The aim of this study was to determine the mean body temperatures in older people using mercury-in-glass thermometer.

Background: Older people are unable to regulate their body temperatures to the same degree as young adults because their responses to changes in body temperature are altered. Several published reports suggest that body temperature decreases with advancing age and has a greater variability in older populations.

A descriptive study of pressure ulcer pain.

Despite increased emphasis on addressing patient pain, knowledge and information about pressure ulcer pain remains limited. To describe the quantitative and qualitative characteristics of pain related to pressure ulcers, a study was conducted among 47 hospitalized patients with pressure ulcers using the McGill Pain Questionnaire and Revised Faces Rating Scale. Volunteer participants, admitted for neurological disorders, ranged in age from 38 to 72 years (mean age 60.

Does obesity prevent the needle from reaching muscle in intramuscular injections?

Aim: This paper is a report of a study to measure subcutaneous tissue thickness at the dorsogluteal and ventrogluteal sites and to determine optimal needle length for dorsogluteal and ventrogluteal intramuscular injections in adults with a body mass index of more than 24.9 kg/m2.

Background: Problems can arise if drugs designed to be absorbed from muscle are only delivered into subcutaneous tissue.

The effect of different body positions on blood pressure.

Aim: The aim of the present study was to test the effects of different body on BP readings in a Turkish healthy young adults.

Background: It is known that many factors influence an individual's blood pressure measurement. However, guideliness for accurately measuring blood pressure inconsistently specify that patient's position and they should keep feet flat on the floor.