Füsun Terzioğlu

Avrasya University | AVRASYA

This study aimed to determined the effect of neonatal intensive care nurses' attitudes towards palliative care on death anxiety and burnout. This was an analytic cross-sectional study conducted with 215 neonatal intensive care nurses working a children's hospital with Turkey's largest NICU bed capacity. The mean Neonatal Palliative Care Attitude Sc...

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to evaluate the effects of nursing students' personality traits and leadership orientations on their career adaptability. Design/methodology/approach: A total of 322 nursing students were enrolled in this cross-sectional study. The methods used to collect data included the semi-structured data collection for...

Purpose: Fathers' Fear of Childbirth Scale (FFCS) was developed specifically to measure fathers' fear of childbirth. The aim of this study was to investigate the Turkish validity and reliability of the FFCS. Design: This study used a cross-sectional and methodological design. Methods: The population of the study consists of 315 pregnant spouse...

The current study aimed to determine the relationships between attitudes toward dating violence, self-esteem, and gender roles. Men supported dating violence more than women, and the attitudes toward gender roles and self-esteem level were found to have a significant positive correlation with attitudes toward dating violence. For women, attitudes t...

Introduction: Stress urinary incontinence (SUI) constitutes the majority of urinary incontinence (UI) cases that occur due to anatomical and physiological changes during pregnancy and postpartum period. The objcetive of this study was to evaluate the effect of pilates in preventing the occurrence of SUI in the postpartum period. Methods: A retro...

The assisted reproductive technology was initially considered to be a treatment tool for infertile couples. However, as it was started in time to use the uteri of other women for the embryos of the other ones, the concept of surrogate maternity appeared. The surrogate maternity is practiced in three types. In the first type of surrogate maternity,...

Objective The aim of this case report is to describe the results of complex decongestive therapy (CDT) in a patient with poliomyelitis and bilateral lymphoedema, and to emphasise the effect of CDT on wound healing. Method A 48-year-old female patient was given CDT for bilateral grade 3 lymphoedema in the lower extremities and a deep wound on the r...

Advances in prenatal diagnosis have made medical, psychological, and ethical issues regarding the diagnosis of fetal anomalies a crucial topic of research. This study identified the needs of parents of unborn babies with fetal anomalies and their views regarding the services of interdisciplinary team members in charge of assisting them. The sample...

Background: Various microorganisms which increase the mortality rate in the intensive care unit (ICU) cause microbial colonization of the nasogastric tube (NGT) and use the NGT as a reservoir. Aim: To detect the colonization on the NGT and to determine the effect that training regarding hand hygiene, NGT management, and enteral feeding (EF) prov...

Purpose: This study aims to investigate the perception of nurse managers and staff nurses regarding the transformational leadership (TL) style of nurse managers and determine the effects of the TL practices on organizational commitment and job satisfaction of staff nurses. Design/methodology/approach: This cross-sectional and descriptive study w...

This research was conducted to examine the relationship of perceived social support, personality traits, and self-esteem of pregnant women with fear of childbirth. The study was performed between April 15, 2016 and May 15, 2016 using face-to-face interviews with 128 pregnant women who were at 28–40 weeks of pregnancy. A negative correlation between...

Purpose The aim of the current study was to determine how emotional intelligence and self-leadership levels could be related to perceived stress. Design and Methods A total of 341 nursing students were enrolled in this descriptive correlational study. Study measures included a sociodemographic form, Emotional Intelligence Evaluation Scale, Revised...

Özet Aralık 2019’da Çin’de ortaya çıkan Koronavirüs Hastalığı 2019 (COVID-19), Şiddetli Akut Solunum Sendromu Koronavirüs-2'nin (SARS-CoV-2) neden olduğu bulaşıcılığı yüksek bir hastalıktır. Mart 2020 tarihinde Türkiye’de de ortaya çıkan COVID-19, Dünya Sağlık Örgütü tarafından pandemi olarak ilan edilmiştir. Dünya nüfusu bu salgın nedeniyle, sağlı...

Kanser gibi yaşamı tehdit eden hastalığa sahip bireylerde manevi gereksinimler soyut ve karmaşık olup ölçümü güçtür. Bu nedenle kanser hastalarında ölçümü daha kolay olan fiziksel gereksinimler öncelikle ele alınmakta, manevi gereksinimler gözden kaçabilmektedir. Araştırmada, kanser hastası ile en fazla zaman geçiren sağlık profesyonellerinden hemş...

Background: Preprofessional palliative care education may be inadequate, leaving a gap in health professional students' knowledge and understanding of managing patients with gynecologic cancer and their families. Interprofessional simulation-based training may be useful in helping health professional students gain the necessary skills required for...

Aim The purpose of this study is to describe the association of missed nursing care and the determinants of satisfaction with current position for direct care nurses. Background Missed nursing care and job satisfaction are important issues regarding quality patient care and safety in health care, globally. Method This was a cross‐sectional quanti...

Araflt›rmada, üniversite ö¤rencilerine seçmeli olarak verilen Toplumsal Cin-siyet dersinin ö¤rencilerin toplumsal cinsiyet tutumuna, elefltirel düflünme e¤ilimine ve medya-okuryazarl›¤› becerisine etkisini de¤erlendirmek amaç-lanm›flt›r. Bu çal›flma ön test-son test kontrol gruplu yar› deneysel desen kul-lan›larak yap›lm›flt›r. Araflt›rman›n örnekl...

Statement: This review explores the effectiveness of simulation-based team training in obstetric emergencies for improving technical skills. A literature search was conducted that included all articles to January 2018. A total of 21 articles were included from a potential 1327 articles. Each included study was assessed for impact of the training p...

The purpose of the descriptive study was to assess the individualized care perceptions of gynecologic oncology patients and nurses. The study was conducted between June 1, 2015, and September 30, 2015, at a university hospital and at a training and research hospital in Ankara, Turkey. The study sample included 152 patients who received inpatient tr...

Amaç: Bu çalışmanın amacı çiftlerin geri çekme yöntemine ilişkin tutumlarının belirlenmesidir. Gereç ve Yöntem: Çalışmanın örneklemini geri çekme yöntemini kullanan 15-49 yaş aralığında olan 245 çift (490 birey) oluşturmuştur. Verilerin toplanmasında anket formu ve Geri Çekme Yöntemi Tutum Ölçeği kullanılmıştır.. Bulgular: Araştırmada, kadınların ö...

Amaç: Bu araştırmada, jinekolojik onkoloji palyatif bakımda simülasyona dayalı mesleklerarası eğitime yönelik öğrencilerin görüş, düşünce ve önerilerinin belirlenmesi amaçlanmıştır.Gereç ve Yöntemler: Araştırmada nitel araştırma yöntemlerinden yorumlayıcı fenomenolojik yaklaşım kullanılmıştır. Araştırmanın uygulaması Nisan 2017 - Mayıs 2017 tarihle...

Background: Several recent studies have documented the effects of massage and acupressure in reducing labor pain and labor time and in satisfaction with the delivery. However, few studies have investigated the comparative effects of these two therapies. Purpose: The aim of this study was to compare the effects of massage and acupressure on labor...

Our objective was determining the effects of amniotic fluid (AF) and fetal cord blood (FCB) cotinine concentrations on pregnancy complications and the anthropometric measurements in the newborns whose mothers underwent amniocentesis. This study was conducted as a case-control study, in Turkey. A total of 250 pregnant women with amniocentesis indica...

Z Mesleklerarası eğitim, sağlık profesyonellerinin lisans eğitiminde farklı meslek grupları arasındaki farklılıkları ve benzerlikleri daha iyi kavramalarına ve onların kendi profesyonel kimliklerini oluşturmalarına katkı sağlayan bir yaklaşımdır. Mesleklerarası eğitim dünyada sağlık alanında eğitim veren saygın üniversitelerin eğitim müfredatlarına...

Background The insufficiency of health literacy negatively affects the national economy as it leads to increased health service expenditure. It is very important for individuals to have accurate health‐related information to reduce these negative effects. Aim The aim of the study is to examine the health literacy of nursing students and its effect...

Background: Lymphedema and chronic edema is a major health care problem in both developed and nondeveloped countries The Lymphoedema Impact and Prevelance - International (LIMPRINT) study is an international health service-based study to determine the prevalence and functional impact in adult populations of member countries of the International Lym...

Aim: To determine factors associated with nurses’ intent to leave their positions and absenteeism. Background: There is a recognized global shortage of nurses but limited data describ‐ ing and determining factors associated with nurse absenteeism and intent to leave. Methods: This study involved a secondary analysis of the results from direct‐care...

Background: Gynecologic cancer can create hopelessness and death anxiety and alter the lifestyle of the affected women and their caregivers. Perceived social support may facilitate coping with this illness. Objective: The aim of this study was to determine whether hospitalized patients with gynecologic cancer and their caregivers differ in feeli...

Purpose: Our aim was to investigate the effect of reflexology and progressive muscle relaxation (PMR) exercises on pain, fatigue, and quality of life (QoL) of gynecologic cancer patients during chemotherapy. Methods: Eighty participants were randomly assigned to one of four groups: reflexology, progressive muscle relaxation (PMR) exercises, both...

This descriptive study was aimed to evaluate the attitudes of the engaged men and women who are of legal age to marry towards gender roles and acceptance of couple violence, and determine their sexual/reproductive health education needs. It was conducted in two marriage registry offices in Ankara, Turkey. The study sample consisted of 740 participa...

The Validity and Reliability of The Dating Violence Scale Objective: In this study, it was aimed to develop a scale to identify students' attitudes towards dating violence. Method: The study sample consisted of1045 university students 130 variables pool were developed in the direction of literature searching, composition and focus group interviews...

Objectives: Gynecologic cancers are the second main reasons for morbidity in women following breast cancer in Turkey and globally. The majority of patients with gynecologic cancer experience recurrence and die despite aggressive treatment. Because of this, patients with gynecologic cancers remain an ideal population for palliative care. Nurses are...

Introduction: Psychosocial factors causing premenstrual syndrome (PMS) are closely correlated with gender. Thus, this study’s aim was to identify correlations between gender role attitudes (GRA) and PMS status of university students. Methods: The participants of this descriptive study were 1515 female students from 13 departments of Hacettepe Unive...

Objective: This research has been conducted for the purpose of determining the cancer risk levels of women living in a small village of in Saraycık village of Ankara and their knowledge and application of breast cancer early diagnose-scan methods. Materials and methods: 317 women were taken as examples for the study. Data were collected by givin...

Palliative care is a philosophy of care that starts at the moment of diagnosis of individuals with life-threatening disease, continues together with curative treatment until death, and supports families and other caregivers during grief process after death. Palliative care services aim to increase quality of life of patients and their families, and...

ABSTRACT Health care services are one of the most basic, indispensable, non-postponable, and non-negligible needs of community life. Nurses are health professionals who are most likely to be close to the individual during the delivery of health services, during and after the treatment service. For this reason, the nurses may face many situations th...

Background/aim: This study determined the effects of cotinine concentrations in follicular fluid (FF) and seminal plasma (SP) on the pregnancy outcome of couples using assisted reproductive techniques (ARTs). Materials and methods: This study was conducted as a case-control study. A total of 217 couples were included in the study. Among these co...

The Validity and Reliability of The Dating Violence Scale Objective: In this study, it was aimed to develop a scale to identify students' attitudes towards dating violence. Method: The study sample consisted of1045 university students 130 variables pool were developed in the direction of literature searching, composition and focus group interviews...

Objective: The aim of this study was to determine the effect of anxiety and depression scores of couples who underwent Assisted Reproductive Techniques (ART) on pregnancy outcomes. Method: This study was conducted as a prospective and comparative study with 217 couples. The study data was collected by using a semi-structured questionnaire and th...

Objective: The aim of this study was to determine the effect of anxiety and depression scores of couples who underwent Assisted Reproductive Techniques (ART) on pregnancy outcomes. Method: This study was conducted as a prospective and comparative study with 217 couples. The study data was collected by using a semi-structured questionnaire and the T...

Purpose: In this study, we aimed to describe the socio-demographic characteristics of caregivers of patients in a geriatric unit and to clarify the relationship between caregiver burden and specific clinical variables in the patients and the characteristics of the caregivers. Design: Cross sectional multi-center study. Methods: 123 patients an...

Aim: To identify relationships among variables affecting nurses' performance and productivity, namely professional attitudes, organisational culture, organisational justice and exposure to mobbing. Background: The determination of the factors affecting performance and productivity is important for providing efficient nursing services. These fact...

Gynecologic cancers constitute a significant part of cancer load, especially in developing countries, and may be an important reason for mortality and morbidity for women in these countries. Procedures in diagnosis and treatment for gynecologic cancers might remain insufficient, and disorders related to symptoms may negatively influence the quality...

The Validity and Reliability of The Dating Violence Scale Objective: In this study, it was aimed to develop a scale to identify students' attitudes towards dating violence. Method: The study sample consisted of1045 university students 130 variables pool were developed in the direction of literature searching, composition and focus group interviews...

ÖZET Palyatif bakım kanser ile mücadelenin en önemli yapıtaşlarından biridir. Bir bakım felsefesi olan palyatif bakım organize ve üst düzeyde yapılandırılmış bir bakım verme sistemidir. Bu sistemin gelişimi ülkeden ülkeye farklılık göstermekle birlikte, gelişmekte olan ülkelerde gelişmiş ülkelere göre daha çok yapılanma aşamasındadır. Türkiye’de is...

Aim: The aim of the study was to investigate the effect of gum chewing, early oral hydration, and early mobilization after cesarean birth on intestinal sounds, passing gas, and intestinal evacuation. Design: Randomized controlled study. Setting: This study was conducted at the Obstetrics Service of the one Obstetrics and Child Diseases Hospita...

In this chapter, the results of an international study of missed nursing care in seven countries are reported. There were significant differences in the total amount of missed nursing care among the countries with Italy reporting the most missed care. Inadequate staffing resources was the top reason for missed care reported by RNs across the countr...

Interprofessional Education Health Education Interprofessional education is an approach to develop healthcare students for future interprofessional teams. It is implemented when two or more professions learn with, from and about each other to improve collaboration and the quality of care. Advocates suggest that IPE is important to cultivate mutual...

The Effect of Some Psychological Problems Experienced During Gynecological Cancer Treatment Upon Women’s Sexual Life Gynecological cancer treatment procedures like hysterectomy, vulvectomy, total pelvic exenteration, chemotherapy and radiotherapy have negative effects on sex lives of women due to depression caused by concerns regarding body image,...

The purpose of the research was to determine the effect of home care service on the quality of life in patients with gynecological cancer. This randomized case control study was carried out in a womans hospital between September 2011 and February 2012. Women undergoing gynecological cancer treatment were separated into intervention and control grou...

This study aims to determine the exposure of women to violence by their partners during pregnancy and the factors affecting this condition. The current study conducted as descriptive included a total of 442 pregnant women who were married and at the last trimester of their pregnancy. The data were collected using a semi-structure questionnaire and...

Establishing a simulation centre remains a real challenge for many experts in the field of clinical simulation. A panel of experts presented some guidelines during the International Conference on Advanced Clinical Simulation that was held in Prince Sultan Military College of Health Sciences, Dhahran, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, in October 2014. The ro...

Palliative care is recognized as an essential component of cancer care in Turkey. The Cancer Control Department of The Turkish Ministry of Health launched the nurse and society-based Pallia-Turk Project in 2010. Nurses play the most important role and bear the most important responsibilities in this project. Because nurses are in contact with patie...

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of home care service on the sexual satisfaction of patients with gynecologic cancer. Sexual health and sexual satisfaction was greatly affect in patients with gynecological cancer depending on the disease and its treatments. Prospective randomized case control study. This study was conducted w...

To determine the effects of chewing gum, early oral hydration and early mobilisation on the time of first bowel sounds, first passage of flatus and first defecation following abdominal gynaecologic surgery. A major complication of abdominal surgical procedures is paralytic ileus which results in patient discomfort, prolonged length of hospital stay...

Objective Cigarette smoke contains many toxic chemicals associated with poor reproductive outcome and reduced fertility. It also has a negative effect on sperm motility and morphology. The aim of this study was to analyze the effects of male and female cigarette smoking on the outcomes of in vitro fertilization (IVF). Study design: In this comparat...

Aim: To determine the occurrences of depression experienced by women during the postpartum period and the risk factors that affect the development of this depression. Materials and methods: The study involved 330 women who had recently given birth in a hospital in 2007. The women were contacted 3 times in total: on postpartum day 1 (face to face) a...

Aim: The aim of this paper is to share the initial experiences on a European Union (EU) Lifelong Learning ProgrammeLeonardo Da Vinci Transfer of Innovation Project related to the use of simulation-based learning with nursing studentsfrom Turkey. The project started at the end of the 2010 involving 7 partners from 3 different countries includingTurk...

One measure of the process of nursing care is missed nursing care, which refers to any aspect of required care that is omitted either in part or in whole or delayed. Little is understood about how the quality and processes of nursing care differs among countries around the world. The aims of this study were (a) to test the psychometric properties o...

In this article, the author proposes a nursing education model about leadership that can be used to improve the leadership skills of nursing doctoral students. This model is developed at the University of Michigan School of Nursing. In developing this model, the author had the opportunity to observe the University of Michigan, School of Nursing doc...

World Health Organization describes health as the state of being completely fine corporally, socially and psychologically. The state of being completely fine which is indicated in this description of health has been criticised by many scientists and with the idea that noone shall ever realise tha state of being completely fine corporally and psycho...

Introduction: This study was conducted to psychometrically analyze the assessment tool developed to determine university students' attitudes towards ageism. Ageism is a result of society's, family members' and young peoples' negative attitudes in general against elderly individuals and ageing. We think that the scale developed in this study will ma...

The family planning (FP) methods used by women of reproductive age can have negative or positive influences on the sex lives of couples. Couples should be aware of the effects of the FP method they use on their sex lives to be able to improve the quality. This descriptive study was carried out to determine the effects of contraceptive methods on th...

Although the lactational amenorrhea method (LAM) is commonly used for contraception, it frequently fails and pregnancy ensues. This descriptive study was conducted to determine the status of the use of breastfeeding as a method of family planning and the influential factors that may have contributed to the success or failure of LAM. The research sa...

ZET Amaç: Çalışma, isteğe bağlı ve terapötik abortus uygulanan kadınların yaşadıkları sorunları, anksiyete düzeylerini belirlemek amacıyla vaka-kontrol çalışması olarak yapılmıştır. Yöntem: Örneklemi, bir kadın hastalıkları ve doğum hastanesinin aile planlaması kliniği ile erken gebelik servisine başvuran toplam 200 kadın oluşturmuştur. Veriler, ya...

Breast cancer is an important public health problem. Although the disease is widespread, the prognosis is good, especially with early diagnosis. For this to occur, a consciousness of protection of breast health for all women is necessary, and risk groups need to be particularly targeted. This study was conducted to determine dynamic and cognitive e...

Objective: This study was conducted with the aim of determining the level of anxiety and problems experienced by pregnant women in their last trimester who came to the prenatal clinic for check-up and pregnant women who are hospitalized because of a risk factor related to pregnancy Method: The research was conducted as a descriptive and comparative...

This study is descriptively carried out with the aim of identifying the problems and anxiety levels of the women who had elective or therapeutic abortion. The sample of the study consists of 200 women who applied to the Women's Hospital. The data is collected by using Questionnaire Form and Beck Anxiety Inventory. In the study, 79.0% of women who h...

Objective: Emergency contraception after unprotected sexual intercourse is used for the purpose of preventing the continuation of a definitely unwanted potential pregnancy. This study is carried out as descriptive to determine the knowledge and practices of university students about the emergency contraception Material and Methods: In this study, t...

383 Sigaranın Üreme Fonksiyonlarına Etkisi Ö ÖZ ZE ET T Gün lük içi len si ga ra mik ta rı ve si ga ra iç me sü re si do ğur gan lı ğı ve üre me ye te ne ği ni doğ ru-dan et ki le mek te ve yar dım cı üre me tek nik le ri nin te da vi sü re ci ni ve so nuç la rı nı ne ga tif ola rak et-ki le mek te dir. Li te ra tür araş tır ma sı, si ga ra nın üre...

This descriptive study was conducted with the aim to determine the anxiety level of infertile men who undergo genetic testing for assisted reproductive treatment. Sample of the study included 60 individuals. Data was collected by interview through a data collection form and Spielberger's STAI Inventory. It was identified that participants experienc...

STUDY RATIONALE: The development of a problem-solving approach to nursing has been one of the more important changes in nursing during the last decade. Nurse Managers need to have effective problem-solving and management skills to be able to decrease the cost of the health care and to increase the quality of care. This descriptive study was conduct...