Development, reliability, and validity of the nurses' conscientious objection attitude scale (COAS-N).

Background: Conscientious objection poses ethical dilemmas frequently encountered by nurses, allowing them to prioritize personal beliefs in caregiving. However, it may also be viewed as a stance jeopardizing patients' healthcare access. There is no measurement tool to measure conscientious objection in nurses.

The effect of education provided with the escape room game on nursing students' learning of parenteral drug administration.

Aim: The present study was conducted to determine the effect of education provided to first-year nursing students with the escape room game on their learning of parenteral drug administration.

Background: The use of escape room games in education supports formal education in providing students with professional knowledge and skills.

Design: A randomized controlled study design was used in this study.

Developing care behaviors and ethical attitude in nursing education.

Aim: This study aims to determine the effect of education based on the Theory of Human Caring on nursing students' caring behaviors and ethical attitudes.

Background: It is crucial to plan nursing education holistically, addressing cognitive, psychomotor and affective domains for the comprehensive development of caring behaviors and ethical attitudes.

Design: This study employed a convergent mixed-methods approach with randomized pretest-posttest comparisons and qualitative analysis.

The effect of simulation on auscultation skills, self-confidence and anxiety levels in nursing students: A randomized controlled trial.

Aim: This study evaluated the effect of simulation on auscultation skills, self-confidence and anxiety levels.

Background: Auscultation is an essential topic in nursing education and patient care. Simulation is efficacious in improving auscultation skills and self-confidence and reducing anxiety levels.

The Effect of Pelvic Floor Muscle Exercises on Bowel Evacuation and Quality of Life in Following Intestinal Ostomy Closure: Randomized Controlled Trial.

Purpose: This purpose of this study was to evaluate the effect of pelvic floor muscle exercises (PFMEs) on bowel evacuation problems and health-related quality of life (HRQOL) following ostomy closure.

Design: Randomized controlled trial.

Subjects And Setting: Forty individuals following ostomy closure consented to participate in the study; 6 participants (15%) did not complete the trial (2 died and 2 required a second ostomy) yielding a study sample of 34.

The Effect of Stoma Site Marking on Stomal Complications: A Long-term Retrospective Study.

Objective: To identify the effect of stoma site marking on stoma-related complications.

Methods: The study sample included 639 individuals with stomas who were followed up in a stomatherapy unit in Turkey between January 1, 2017, and June 20, 2021. Researchers collected patient data from nursing records.

The effect of flipped learning approach on nursing students' learning of patient safety: A randomized controlled trial.

Aim: This study was conducted to evaluate the effect of the flipped learning approach on nursing students' learning of patient safety BACKGROUND: Nursing students play an important role in ensuring patient safety. Flipped learning is an effective approach in nursing education related to patient safety. It is a valuable educational approach whose effects should be evaluated and disseminated in the context of patient safety.

Pressure Injury Prevalence and Risk Factors: A National Multicenter Analytical Study.

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to determine the point prevalence (PP) of general pressure injuries (PIs), hospital-acquired PIs, PI-related risk factors, and PI preventive interventions performed by nurses.

Design: Descriptive, multicenter, prospective, analytical study.

Subjects And Setting: The sample comprised 5088 patients cared for in 13 hospitals in 12 geographic regions of Turkey.

Nurses' attitudes toward, perceptions of, and experiences with conscientious objection.

Background: Conscientious objection is a person's refusal to fulfill a legal duty due to their ethical values, religious beliefs, or ideological affiliations. In nursing, it refers to a nurse's refusal to perform an action or participate in a particular situation based on their conscience. Conscientious objection has become a highly contested topic in recent years.

Changes in the Lives of Individuals with a Stoma and Their Spouses: A Qualitative Study.

Objective: Individuals with a stoma and their spouses experience various changes with regard to their new life situation. The authors aimed to determine the changes caused by stoma creation in the lives of individuals with a stoma and their spouses.

Methods: This study was carried out with individuals with a stoma (n = 15) and their spouses (n = 15) in a stoma therapy unit.

Ethical Discourse of Medical Students on the Phenomenon of Death: A Qualitative Study.

The aim of this study is to discover medical students' ideas on the phenomenon of death; produce information on how these students interpret the value-related problems regarding death that they come across in different units of hospitals; and assess this data in ethical terms. This study included a qualitative research in which 12 focus group interviews were conducted with 92 fifth- and sixth-year medical students. Data obtained from interviews were assessed using a thematic content secondary analysis.

Determination of Quality of Life and Self-Care Agency in Patients Who Underwent Colorectal Cancer Surgery: A Prospective Descriptive Study.

Background: Knowledge about the relationship between quality of life and self-care among patients with colorectal cancer in Turkey is limited.

Purpose: This prospective, descriptive study evaluated the quality of life and self-care agency of patients who underwent surgery for colorectal cancer.

Methods: Patients were recruited to participate preoperatively from the general surgery clinics in 2 hospitals in Turkey.

Family Functioning, Perceived Social Support, and Adaptation to a Stoma: A Descriptive, Cross-sectional Survey.

Unlabelled: The creation of a stoma is a life-saving surgical procedure that requires major adjustments.

Purpose: The aim of this study was to examine the relationships among family functioning, perceived social support, and adaptation to living with a stoma.

Method: A descriptive, cross-sectional survey was conducted between October 2013 and June 2015 among consecutive patients who visited the stomatherapy unit of a university hospital in Ankara, Turkey, for regular follow-up visits.

Nurses' Knowledge and Practices Related to Pressure Injury: A Cross-sectional Study.

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to determine nurses' knowledge and practices regarding pressure injury and identify relationships between these factors and professional nurse characteristics.

Design: Cross-sectional, descriptive study.

Setting And Subjects: The sample comprised 347 nurses attending the 2013 and 2015 Wound Management Congresses.

Effect of simulation on the ability of first year nursing students to learn vital signs.

Background: The acquisition of cognitive, affective and psychomotor knowledge and skills are required in nursing, made possible via an interactive teaching method, such as simulation.

Objective And Design: This study conducted to identify the impact of simulation on first-year nursing students' ability to learn vital signs.

Setting And Participants: A convenience sample of 90 first-year nursing students enrolled at a University, Ankara, in 2014-2015.

The effect of the application of manual pressure before the administration of intramuscular injections on students' perceptions of postinjection pain: a semi-experimental study.

Aims And Objectives: To evaluate the efficacy of applying manual pressure before intramuscular injection and compare it with the standard injection technique in terms of reducing the young adult student's postinjection pain.

Background: The administration of intramuscular injections is a procedure performed by nurses and one that causes anxiety and pain for the patient. Nurses have ethical and legal obligations to mitigate injection-related pain and the nurses' use of effective pain management not only provides physical comfort to the patients, but also improves the patients' experience.

A Prospective, Multicentered Study to Assess Social Adjustment in Patients With an Intestinal Stoma in Turkey.

Patients with a stoma undergo physiological, psychological, and social adjustment to their new life situation. A descriptive, prospective study was conducted to assess adaptation among patients >18 years of age with a new temporary or permanent colostomy or ileostomy living in Turkey and receiving care at a participating stomatherapy unit. The study took place between September 1, 2011, and September 1, 2012.

Determining the effect of periodic training on the basic psychomotor skills of nursing students.

Background: Basic psychomotor skill training starts in the first year in nursing education. The psychomotor skills taught in the first year of nursing training constitute a foundation for all professional practices. Conducting periodic training for skills with which students are deficient can support mastery learning.

The effect of ethics training on students recognizing ethical violations and developing moral sensitivity.

Background: Moral sensitivity is a life-long cognitive ability. It is expected that nurses who work in a professional purpose at "curing human beings" should have a highly developed moral sensitivity. The general opinion is that ethics education plays a significant role in this sense to enhance the moral sensitivity in terms of nurses' professional behaviors and distinguish ethical violations.

A multicenter, retrospective study to evaluate the effect of preoperative stoma site marking on stomal and peristomal complications.

Even though preoperative marking of the stoma area is considered important for the prevention of postoperative complications, not all healthcare institutions have universally adopted this practice. A multicenter, retrospective, descriptive study was conducted to determine the effect of stoma site marking on stomal and peristomal complications. The 1-year study included 748 patients (408 [54.

An evaluation of nurses' professional autonomy in Turkey.

Background: The development of a profession's autonomy closely relates to that profession's level of autonomy in performing its specific role. For the nursing profession, this key role is nursing care.

Objectives: This study was undertaken to evaluate the professional autonomy of nurses in care provision, from an ethical perspective.

Colostomy irrigation: an important issue for Muslim individuals.

Colostomy irrigation (CI) is a bowel management method in individuals with permanent colostomy, as an alternative to pouch use, which may provide continence. CI helps the individuals with an artificial stoma to adjust to the stoma and may increase their quality of life (QOL). An uncontrolled intestinal gas discharge invalidates ablution, and noisy gas discharge and smell prevents congregational prayers, which cause problems to Muslims with stomas.