Hand hygiene beliefs and practices and glove use attitudes of health professionals working in the emergency department.

Introduction: Hand washing and the use of gloves in accordance with the standards are among the most significant methods used in infection control.

Methodology: This study is an analytical cross-sectional study. The sample of the study consisted of 132 health personnel working in the emergency department of a public hospital.

Ethical values of academic nurses: A pilot study.

Background: While academics contribute to the development of society through all the subjects that they work on, they also have other important tasks to fulfill, such as being role models for their students and society. Therefore, the place of academic ethical values is a significant topic for academic nurses.

Objective: The main objective of this research was to examine the attitudes of academic nurses toward academic ethics.

The manual dexterity of nursing students and factors that affect it.

The purpose of this study was to define the manual dexterity of nursing students and factors that affect it. The sample for this descriptive and analytical study was composed of 196 nursing students. The data collection tools were a survey and the Purdue pegboard test.

Thesis survey results in the field of nursing regarding the use of complementary and alternative medical treatments in Turkey.

This descriptive literature review was planned to identify the prevalence of Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) usage, frequency of usage, types/fields of use in master's theses and PhD dissertations based on the CAM methods, which are commonly used in nursing practice in Turkey. Data was collected in Turkey from February to March 2014 through a review of the National Thesis Centre (NTC) Archives at the Chairmanship of the Council of Higher Education and by obtaining the nursing theses/dissertations on CAM done between 1996 and 2013. Data were analysed by distribution of frequencies and percentages for publication year, number in sampling, method, case group, CAM type, and purpose of use/effectiveness.

Relationship of anxiety and burnout with extrasystoles in critical care nurses in Turkey.

Objective: To determine the relationship between levels of anxiety and burnout and prevalence of atrial extrasystoles (AESs) and ventricular extrasystoles (VESs) among critical care nurses.

Methods: The sample of study included 51 nurses who worked in the intensive care units of a university hospital located in western Turkey. Beck's Anxiety Inventory and the Maslach Burnout Inventory were used in the study.

Cultural validation of the "use of intuition by nursing students scale - Turkish version".

Purpose: It is well known that intuition ability directly affects patient care quality and outcomes in nursing practice and is therefore an important aspect of nursing education. This study tests the validity and reliability of the Turkish version of the Scale of Use of Intuition by Nursing Students.

Design: The sample for this methodological study was composed of 250 nursing students.

The risk factors effecting the dry mouth in inpatients in Hospital in west Anatolia.

Aim: The aim of the present study was to evaluate the inpatients with dry mouth and the associated risk factors.

Background: Dry mouth is defined as the excessive decrease in the amount of saliva. Hyposalivation may lead to rapid deterioration in oral health and may facilitate the development of opportunistic oral infections.

The effect of 2 different care products on incontinence-associated dermatitis in patients with fecal incontinence.

Purpose: We compared the effects of 2 devices used to contain fecal incontinence--a perianal pouch and adult containment brief--on the incidence of incontinence-associated dermatitis (IAD).

Design: Randomized controlled trial.

Subjects And Setting: The sample was drawn from patients hospitalized in the neurology and neurosurgery wards of a large university hospital in Turkey.