Ayla Yava

• RN, PhD, Prof.
• Hasan Kalyoncu University

The aim of this study is to determine the incidence of hypothermia, thermal comfort, and factors affecting thermal comfort in patients undergoing elective surgery during the perioperative period. Conducted between October 1, 2020, and March 1, 2021, this cross-sectional study, approved ethically, involved 306 elective surgery patients. Data, collec...

Background In recent years, limited studies have evaluated the development of cultural awareness, sensitivity, skills, communication and competence among nursing students using different models and curricula. Objectives This study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of a new internationally developed curriculum for transcultural nursing education....

Aim This study explores the relationship between cultural intelligence and attitudes towards the intention to migrate among nursing and midwifery students. Methods Using a correlational design, data were collected from 804 students through the Student Descriptive Form, The Attitude Scale for Brain Drain in Nursing Students and the Cultural Intelli...

Background/Aim: Constipation can occur after abdominal procedures. In this study, we investigated whether early mobilization after abdominal surgery is effective for treating constipation. Methods: We conducted a systematic review of studies implementing early and planned mobilization after abdominal surgical procedures. We extracted studies publis...

Background: New research is crucial in addressing the role of nurses in preventing pressure injuries (PIs) and remedying deficiencies in their self-efficacy in this area. Purpose: The aim of this study was to examine the self-efficacy perceptions of nurses in managing PIs within surgical services. Methods: The study involved 186 nurses from surgica...

Background: Research on the knowledge, attitudes, and practices of nurses working in surgical intensive care units regarding the use of physical restraints is limited. Objective: This study aimed to assess nurses’ knowledge, attitudes, and practices regarding physical restraint use in surgical intensive care units (S-ICUs). Method: The research, a...

Background The aim of this study was to identify nursing students’ fears and emotions and to concretise the metaphors they used to describe their feelings towards the COVID-19 pandemic. Methods This study was conducted with nursing students at a foundation university between December 2021 and February 2022 using a sequential mixed methods research...

Objectives: It is aimed to determine the needs of family members whose patients are hospitalized in surgical intensive care unit. Methods: Data were collected from 150 family members hospitalized in the surgical intensive care unit of a large university hospital. Data were collected using the Patient Relative Introduction Form and the Patient Relat...

Özet: Postoperatif yara bakımı, hemşirelerin de yer aldığı ekip çalışması gerektirir ve uygun şekilde yapılmadığı takdirde olumsuz sonuçlara yol açabilir. Cerrahi yaralar, hastanelerde sıkça görülmesine rağmen hemşirelerin postoperatif yara bakımı uygulamalarını değerlendiren sınırlı sayıda çalışma vardır. Bu araştırma, cerrahi kliniklerde çalışan...

Bu araştırma bir aile sağlığı merkezine başvuru yapan 18 yaş üstü bireylerin kardiyovasküler hastalıklara sebep olan risk faktörleri hakkındaki bilgi ve farkındalık düzeylerini ölçmeyi amaçlamaktadır. Tanımlayıcı ve Kesitsel nitelikteki araştırmanın evrenini 1 Nisan -30 Haziran 2023 tarih aralıklarında aile sağlığı merkezine herhangi bir sebep nede...

Aim: In this article, we aimed to contribute to the scientific community by highlighting the challenges and experiences of nurses in wound care in emergency department Background: Although there are many studies related to wound care, a literature review reveals that there is no research similar to our article. Therefore, our study is anticipated t...

Objective The aim of this study is to determine the steps of a training program utilizing Head-Mounted Display (HMD) based Virtual Reality Technology to enhance nursing students’ skills in surgical hand scrubbing, wearing surgical cap and surgical mask, gowning and gloving, and to evaluate students’ perceptions toward the program. Methods The stud...

Objective: This study aims to examine the problems experienced by patients who underwent lumbar disc herniation (LDH) surgery in their home activities after discharge, their pain levels, and their functionality during follow-up. Methods: This descriptive and correlational study was conducted in the neurosurgery outpatient clinic of a university hos...

Araştırma cerrahi kliniklerde çalışan hemşirelerin preoperatif hasta eğitimi konusundaki uygulamaları ve yaklaşımlarının değerlendirilmesi amacıyla planlandı. Tanımlayıcı tipteki araştırma, Bitlis Devlet Hastanesi ve Bitlis/Tatvan Devlet Hastanesi’nde yapıldı. Araştırmanın evrenini cerrahi kliniklerde çalışan tüm hemşireler (N:55), örneklemini ise...

Aim: In the present systematic review, it was aimed to review the studies systematically that researched the effect of cold application after total knee arthroplasty. Materials and Method: The open-access full-text articles published between 2002-2023 in Turkish and English languages with prospective, randomized controlled experimental and semi-exp...

Özet Amaç: Yoğun bakımda çalışan hemşireler beyin ölümü gerçekleşen ve organ nakli planlanan hastayla yakından ilgilenip bakım veren sağlık profesyonelidir. Bu çalışma yoğun bakımda çalışan hemşirelerin beyin ölümü ve organ transplantasyonuna yönelik tutumları ile yapay organ nakline yönelik görüşlerinin değerlendirilmesi amacıyla yapıldı. Gereç ve...

Bakım Ortamı Fatma ETİ ASLAN Melike ÇAKIR Hemodinamik Parametreler ve İzlem – Mortalite ve Morbidite Ölçekleri - Yoğun Bakım Skorlama Sistemleri Halim ULUGÖL Fevzi TORAMAN Sıvı – Elektrolit Asit – Baz Dengesi Bozuklukları Özgen ILGAZ KOÇYİĞİT Yoğun Bakımda Malnutrisyon Yönetimi İlayda ÖZTÜRK ALTUNCEVAHİR Yoğun Bakımda Enfeksiyonun Önlenmesi Ferda A...

Objective: The objective of this study is to determine the knowledge level and awareness of surgical nurses about fragile patients. Method: Obtained through Introductory Information Survey Form created by the researchers and Fragile Patient Information Evaluation Form methods. Results: The average age of the surgical nurses participating in the stu...

Aim: This study was conducted to investigate the risk of type 2 diabetes, behavioral and familial risk factors, and awareness of type 2 diabetes in students. Method: The research was applied to students of a state university. In data collection, "informed consent form", "questions about social-demographic characteristics", "Finnish Type-2 DM Risk S...

Background: The coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has led to a significant increase in the use of latex gloves among nurses. However, concerns about the rise in latex allergies and related complaints due to this increase remain uncertain.OBJECTİVE: This study aims to assess the rates of latex glove usage and allergy-related complaints among nur...

BACKGROUND In addition to traditional educational methods, virtual reality (VR) and three-dimensional (3D) technology can offer opportunities in surgical nursing education to facilitate the retention of surgical procedures more effectively. OBJECTIVE This study aimed to compare the impact of virtual reality on surgical hand scrubbing and sterile g...

Aim: This study aims to investigate the effect of women's health anxiety level on their desire to have children during the epidemic period. Method: The Health Anxiety Inventory (HAI) and the Childbearing Motivation Scale (CMS) were used to collect data from women between the ages of 18-50. Results: Among the women participants of the study, 94.5% e...

Cancer is a global public health problem, but its exact prevalence in people with intellectual disabilities is still uncertain. This population, with limited health skills and complex health needs, faces many challenges in cancer prevention, screening, timely diagnosis and treatment. Furthermore, they are often underrepresented in general cancer pr...

Background Several educational activities in nursing schools worldwide have been implemented to promote transcultural nursing and cultural competence. Despite the diversity of their experiences and outcomes, the available evidence has not been systematically reviewed and reinterpreted. This study aimed to review and reinterpret all rigorous qualita...

Background A clear need for the development of new comprehensive, reliable, sensitive and valid measurement tools to adequately asses the cultural competence and cultural sensitivity of nursing students exists. This study aimed to develop a new measurement tool to assess the nursing students’ cultural competence and sensitivity. Methods This cross...

Objective:The Coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) pandemic process that the whole world is facing has revealed the importance of a strong immune systemandsleep in fighting diseases. The aim of this study was to determine the effect of the pandemic process on the sleeping habits of nursing students.Materials and Methods:This descriptive study was co...

Background: Qualified individualised nursing care should be provided to all communities and ethnic groups with free of ethnocentrism. Aims: To evaluate nurses' individualised care behaviours and ethnocentric attitudes and predict the relationship between their individualised care behaviours and ethnocentric attitudes. Design: A descriptive and...

Tıbbi anlamda acil; bireyin fiziksel ya da ruhsal yönden tehdit- tehlike içinde bulunduğuna inanarak hasta ve ailesine gereksinim duyduğu tıbbi bakımın anında verilmesi olarak tanımlanır. Bu tanımdan da anlaşıldığı gibi acil hasta/yaralıya bakım acil bakım konusunda uzmanlaşmış sağlık profesyonelleri gerektirir. Elinizdeki kitap acil bakım konusund...

Background: As a result of the coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, compliance with isolation measures has become challenging. Objective: To evaluate the individual workload perception and compliance with isolation measures of nurses working in the emergency service and critical care unit during the COVID-19 outbreak. Methods: This descriptiv...

Aim: The aim of the study was to evaluate nursesʼ knowledge of protective precautions and their experiences of various factors during the Covid-19 pandemic. Design: A descriptive cross-sectional study. Methods: In this descriptive cross-sectional study, the snowball method was selected for sampling to access nurses (n = 392) serving in the fight ag...

Findings: 60.4% of the nurses are female, the average age is 27.29±3.57, 77.1% are undergraduate graduates. It was determined that all of the nurses gave preoperative patient training, 75% of them considered themselves sufficient to provide training, and 72.9% could not determine the training needs of the patients. It was determined that 41.7% of t...

ntroduction and Objective: Postoperative wound care requires teamwork, including nurses, and can lead to negative consequences if not done properly. Although surgical wounds are frequently seen in hospitals, there are limited studies evaluating nurses' postoperative wound care practices. This research was carried out to determine the postoperative...

Ameliyat Öncesi Açlık Hakkında Hemşirelerin Bilgi, Tutum Ve Uygulamalarının Güncel Rehberlere Uygunluğunun Değerlendirilmesi (An Evaluation of the Appropriateness of Nurses' Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices to Current Guidelines on Preoperative Fasting )

Aim: This study aimed to determine surgical nurses' knowledge of the risk factors and complications of inadvertent perioperative hypothermia and the practices preferred to prevent inadvertent perioperative hypothermia and to provide normothermia. Methods: This descriptive study was conducted on 122 volunteer nurses working in the surgical clinic...

Introduction Violence against nurses working in the emergency department is a serious problem worldwide. Methods This descriptive study used a participant questionnaire and was conducted in-person, using semi-structured interviews with 120 emergency nurses (69 female, 51 male) working in the emergency department between September 1 and November 30...

It was aimed to examine the studies investigating the effect of listening to music in reducing pain in the postoperative period. The research was conducted on the effect of listening to music in reducing postoperative pain, published between 20.05.2019 and 01.07.2019, in quasi-experimental or experimental design, dealing with adult patient sample,...

Background: It is important to know the herbal products and food supplements used by individuals with diabetes in the management of type 2 diabetes. This study aims to examine the use of herbal products/food supplements in glycemic control of individuals with type 2 diabetes.Method and Material: This descriptive study, three government hospitals Di...

Background: Nursing is a practice-based professional profession that requires integrating theoretical knowledge harmoniously with the ability to apply it. Therefore, it is important to determine the learning styles of the students in order to plan appropriate teaching methods, use and evaluate various learning methods and materials in order to ensu...

FOREWORD Natural disasters, wars, unemployment, the desire for a better life, travel, health tourism, education opportunities, and political asylum have all contributed to rapid geographic mobility in the globalized globe. As a consequence of this movement, individuals bring aspects of their own culture to the locations they visit, forming multicul...

Aim This study aimed to synthesize the findings of studies evaluating educational programs providing curricular transcultural nursing education. Backgrounds Nursing care education about cultural diversity and experience with taking care of patients from different cultures and special populations are significant factors that could likely influence...

Background Coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) is a major surgery that may cause severe surgical stress response (SR). Although the presence of family members in intensive care unit (ICU) is known to benefit intensive care patients socially and emotionally, its effects on surgical SR are unknown. Objectives To investigate the effect of an infor...

This descriptive study has been conducted in order to determine the efficiency of coloured communication cards in improving satisfaction of communication for intubated patients. Methods: The sample of the study was consisted of 47 volunteer patients who had been undergone open cardiac surgery and intubated. The data was obtained from the patient th...

Literatürden elde edilen genel izlenim 'zor' hastaların önemli zaman ve kaynak tükettikleri, çok sayıda gereksiz tanı konulduğu, sağlık profesyonellerini olumsuz etkiledikleridir. Zor hasta olarak algılanan hastalar, sıklıkla yetersiz bakım almakta ve yeterli ilgi görememektedir. Yoğun bakımda sık karşılaşılan zor hastaların, genellikle memnuniyetl...

Background A long-term diabetic complication, fatigue, which is a direct result of treatment and psychological processes, is a common symptom in diabetic individuals. Aims To determine the reliability and validity of Functional Assessment of Chronic Illness Treatment-Fatigue Scale in Turkish patients with type 2 diabetes. Study design A methodolo...

Background: A long-term diabetic complication, fatigue, which is a direct result of treatment and psychological processes, is a common symptom in diabetic individuals. Aims: To determine the reliability and validity of Functional Assessment of Chronic Illness Treatment-Fatigue Scale in Turkish patients with type 2 diabetes. Study design: A met...

Background: This study aims to investigate the factors affecting food intake in perioperative period of patients who undergo open heart surgery and the effects of body weight, albumin and hemoglobin values, nausea, vomiting and constipation on food intake. Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted between 4 February 2015 and 4 May 2015 i...

Amaç: Bu çalışmada bir vakıf üniversitesinin öğrencilerinin organ bağışına yönelik bilgi ve düşüncelerinin belirlenmesi amaçlanmıştır.Gereç ve Yöntem: Tanımlayıcı tipte olan araştırmanın evrenini 15-30 Ocak 2013 tarihleri arasında üniversitede öğrenim gören 950, örneklemini ise araştırmaya katılmaya gönüllü olan 504 öğrenci oluşturmuştur. Çalışma v...

Purpose: This descriptive study has been conducted in Gaziantep University Research and Training Hospital in order to determine the efficiency of coloured communication cards in improving satisfaction of communication for intubated patients. Methods: The sample of the study was consisted of 47 volunteer patients who had been undergone open cardiac...

Hemşirelik ve Sağlık Meslek Okulları İçin Fizyoloji” ismiyle basılan bu kitap; hücreden başlayıp bütün sistemlerin, fetüs ve yeni doğanın fizyolojisinin, sıvı elektrolit dengesinin sade ve akıcı bir dille anlatıldığı 12 bölümden oluşmaktadır. Her bölümde, sistemin fizyolojisinin şekil ve çizimlerle açıklanmasının yanı sıra normalden sapma durumları...

The purpose of the study was to determine the life experiences and health-related quality of life (HRQOL) of patients living with a urostomy. Cross-sectional descriptive study. This prospective and descriptive study was carried out in a research and training hospital in Gaziantep, Turkey; data were collected from May 2009 to September 2011. Twenty-...

Background: Vaccination is one of the basic activities in preventive health care. Data related to vaccination in the elderly Turkish population is limited. The aim of the present study was to investigate the vaccination status and related factors among geriatric individuals.

Aim: The aim of this study was to determine how often nursing students find an opportunity to observe and/or practice nursing skills during their training in an emergency department. Background: Clinical education as an integral part of nursing education offers the nursing students opportunities to gain clinical experiences in the nursing skills...

The aim of the study was to evaluate the effects of preoperative fasting and fluid limitation in patients undergoing laparoscopic cholecystectomy. Although traditional long-term fasting is not recommended in current preoperative guidelines, this is still a common intervention. Visual analogue scale was used to assess hunger, thirst, sleepiness, exh...

Aim: To determine the effect of invasive and noninvasive interventions implemented in intensive care unit on the pain and hemodynamic parameters of cardiac surgery patients. Material and Method: This study was a prospective, pre-post measured clinical trial. Invasive and noninvasive interventions were determined as coughing, and breathing exercises...

Objective: To determine the effect of a nursing guideline application developed for this study and followed according to the Early Warning Scoring System (EWSS) in a post-anaesthesia recovery unit. Methods: This study was carried out as a randomized-controlled experimental study. The study sample comprised 123 adult patients having thoracic and abd...

Nursing care for renal transplantation between mates: case presentation Kidney transplantation is one of the best treatment methods for significantly improving the quality of life for patients suffering from kidney disease. Transplantation patients expose to many stress because of operation and hospital environment. Patients who had kidney transpla...

Mobbing is an occupational health problem at alarming levels in all cultures and professions worldwide regardless of sex, age, experience, education and hierarchy. Mobbing is a dynamic process, varying from simple to complex. Mobbing, causing psychological, physiological and social traumas on employee's health that are hard to recover, is mostly se...

Background:­This study aims to determine the opinion and suggestions of the patients undergoing cardiac surgery on informed consents given preoperatively. Methods: This descriptive and cross-sectional study was conducted in postoperative Department of Cardiovascular Surgery (CVS) between January 2012 and May 2012. Ninety-two patients who were...

The objective of the study was to evaluate the views and the level of information regarding patient safety of the senior nursing students in a school of nursing. A descriptive design was used, with a convenience sample of 81 students at a university of military nursing in Turkey. Data were collected by using questionnaire descriptive characteristic...

Background: Despite the growing awareness on pain management, mild and severe pain is still common among hospitalized patients. Inadequate treatment has been mostly linked to health care workers' failure to assess patients’ pain and to intervene appropriately.Objective: To determine the pain management knowledge and attitudes of the nurses working...

A 64-year-old woman, with a 10 years history of mitral valve replacement, presented with gradually increasing dyspnea in the last two months. Her symptoms significantly deteriorated in the last three days. Work-up showed pulmonary hypertension with right heart failure and severe tricuspid regurgitation. The impairment in respiratory functions after...

The advances in health care technologies make it essential that nurses be competent and equipped with the operation of the related technological equipment. The aim of nursing education is to educate nurses capable of fulfilling individual, family and society nursing care needs by following the developments of contemporary science and technology. Ed...

Özet: Yaklaşık 10 yıl önce mitral kapak replasmanı öyküsü bulunan 64 yaşındaki bayan hasta, iki aydır devam eden efor dispnesi ve son üç günde semptomlarının belirgin derecede artması üzerine kliniğe yatırıldı. Yapılan tetkikler sonucunda pulmoner hipertansiyon ile birlikte sağ kalp yetersizliği ve ciddi triküspit yetmezliği saptandı. Solunum param...

Vegetative state (VS) is one of the most severe outcomes of brain damage. The nurses who give care to VS patients face different and strenuous experiences during care in intensive care units (ICUs). The aim of this study was to determine the experiences of ICU nurses who give care to VS patients. This was a qualitative study with 24 nurses who work...

Weaning from a mechanical ventilator covers the entire process of liberating the patient from mechanical support and from the endotracheal tube. The appropriate time for weaning should be determined according to the physical and emotional condition of the patient together with the presence of medical staff. Each phase of weaning requires advan...

Transthoracic cardioversion (TTC) is widely used in emergency departments and daily clinical practice. TTC may cause skin lesions on the application of apical and sternal paddle areas. The lesions are characterised by redness, erythema and blister(s), and can be defined as first degree burns locally causing pain and increased sensitivity. To evalua...

The objective of the study was to determine the perceptions of a group of patients on intensive care units' (ICUs) stressors and the perceptions of nurses on ICU patients' stressors in Turkey, and compare the differences in patients' and nurses' perception of the stressors in ICUs. In this descriptive study, 155 patients who were admitted to medica...

Bu çalışma, hemşirelik yüksek okulu birinci sınıf öğrencilerinin, kendi yaşantıları yoluyla öğrenme yöntemi olarak seçilen “bir gün hastanede yatma deneyiminin” sağlık ve hastalık kavramı, sağlık personeli-hasta ilişkisi ve hastane ortamının bireysel gereksinimlere etkisinin değerlendirilmesi amacıyla yapılmıştır. Birinci sınıfa devam eden gönüllü...

This study was conducted to identify the effects of first class nursing school students' experiences of "one night stand at the hospital" as way of self-learning on acquiring health and illness concepts, relationship between the medical staff and patients, and effects of hospital environment on individual needs. The study is qualitative study with...

To determine the effect of preoperative skin preparation procedures performed by nurses on postoperative surgical site infection in abdominal surgery. Despite all interventions, postoperative SSIs still greatly affect mortality and morbidity. This is an experimental study. Procedures developed for nurse application of preoperative skin preparations...

The aim of this study was to determine nurses' perceptions of the barriers to and facilitators of research utilization in Turkey. Barriers Scale was utilized in the research, and the population was 631 nurses. According to the research results, the first three important barriers were inadequate authority (63.6%), lack of time (54.0%), and insuffici...

Objective: The aim of the study was to determine the experiences related to mechanical ventilation (MV) and intensive care unit (ICU) environment of the patients who were on prolonged MV. Material and Methods: This was a prospective and qualitative research. Phenomenological method was used to collect and evaluate the data. The study was conducted...