Sevil Guler

Gazi University Faculty of Nursing · Surgical Nursing

Background and Purpose: In nursing education, students are often expected to make presentations. This study aimed to adapt the Oral Presentation Evaluation Scale (OPES) into Turkish language and investigate its psychometric properties. Methods: This methodological study comprised 311 undergraduate students. The data were analyzed by descriptive sta...

Purpose: This study was conducted to determine the prevalences of pain, nausea, and vomiting in patients after orthopedic surgical interventions, as well as the factors affecting these conditions. Method: This descriptive and cross-sectional study was conducted in the Orthopedics and Traumatology Clinic of a state hospital. In the study, data were...

Aim: Online learning methods and digital tools have become more popular since the COVID-19 pandemic. This study investigated the effect of online learning methods on nursing students' motivation during the COVID-19 pandemic. Methods: This study adopted a mixed research design involving a quasi-experimental single-group posttest and a qualitative de...

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. Data were evaluated using number, percentage,...

Giriş ve amaç: Hemşirelik eğitiminde klinik uygulama, öğrencilerin mesleki gelişim süreçlerinin hayati bir bölümüdür. Klinik eğitmen ise öğrenci için kaliteli klinik uygulamanın önemli bir parçasıdır. Bu bağlamda çalışmanın amacı, hemşirelik öğrencilerinin etkili bir klinik eğitmenin sahip olması gereken özellikler hakkındaki görüşlerinin belirlenm...

Amaç: Mesane kanseri en sık görülen malign hastalıklardan biridir ve hastaların yaşam kalitesini olumsuz etkilemektedir. Bu prospektif ve tanımlayıcı çalışma, mesane kanseri cerrahisi sonrası hastaların 1 yıllık yaşam kalitelerini değerlendirmeyi amaçlamaktadır. Yöntem: Çalışmaya bir üniversite hastanesinin Üroloji Kliniği'nde ilk kez mesane kanser...

Abstract Background In the first 24 h after surgery, it is necessary to evaluate the patient responses to pain, analgesia and patient satisfaction to prevent complications related to the pain management process. Aim To evaluate patients' outcomes (pain qualities, side effects of the pain management, pain treatment satisfaction, non-pharmacological...

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 fo...

Objectives: This study was performed as a descriptive research to determinate adherence to immunosuppressive therapy in patients undergoing renal, liver, and heart transplantation. Materials and Methods: The study sample consisted of 60 patients who underwent renal, liver, and heart transplantation and follow-up visits at a foundation university ho...

Background The use of puzzles in education helps to improve, consolidate and ensure the permanence of the learned information and increases the motivation of students toward the lesson. Objectives This study was conducted to determine the views of nursing students on crossword and word search puzzles used within the scope of the course. Design A...

Purpose Mastectomy is one of the most painful surgical procedures. Postoperative pain guidelines recommend transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS) as a reliable non-pharmacological analgesic method. The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of TENS on postoperative pain and outcomes in patients undergoing modified radical mast...

The aim of the study is to determine the awareness of the Turkish society in COVID-19, and determine the anxiety stress levels. Research two months after the start of the outbreak in Turkey has reached 2163 individuals completed the online platform. The Integrated Anxiety Stress Scale significantly changed according to age, gender, marital status a...

Introduction Emergency room conditions and the characteristics of the patients followed up pose a risk for pressure injury. Aim This study was conducted as a pilot study to assess the effectiveness of a training program in increasing the awareness of healthcare professionals working in an emergency department about how to manage pressure injuries....

Aim This study was conducted to determine the impact of tailored training provided to nurses for preventing pressure injuries (PIs) on nurses’ knowledge levels and the PI point prevalence (PP). Materials and Methods This interventional study was carried out in a university hospital with a bed capacity of 1114 in an urban center in xxxxx. Ethics co...

Amaç: Bu araştırma, öğrencilerin klinik uygulama öncesi yapılan interaktif vaka tartışmalarına ilişkin görüşlerini belirlemek amacıyla yapılmıştır. Yöntem: Tanımlayıcı tipteki araştırmanın örneklemini 234 hemşirelik öğrencisi oluşturmuştur. Araştırma verileri araştırmacılar tarafından geliştirilen anket formu ile Haziran 2019’da toplanmıştır. Araşt...

In this context, it is recommended that epidemic awareness studies and information sharing on controlled healing measures are planned taking into account the anxiety levels. This research presents the first findings that relate the Turkish society's COVID-19 awareness and anxiety levels to the literature.

Amaç: Bu araştırma, karaciğer transplantasyonu için bekleyen hastaların ve yakınlarının beklentilerini ve yaşadıkları güçlükleri belirlemek amacıyla yapılmıştır. Gereç ve Yöntem: Tanımlayıcı ve tek merkezli bu çalışma, Ankara'daki bir kamu hastanesinin Transplantasyon Polikliniğinde yapılmıştır. Örnekleme 170 karaciğer transplantasyonu adayı ve 170...

ZET Omuz artroplastisi, ağrıyı gidermek, omuz fonksiyonelliğini ve yaşam kalitesini arttırmak amacıyla uygulanan cerrahi bir yöntemdir. Parsiyel, total ve ters total olmak üzere üç şekilde uygulanan bu ameliyatlar, nadir uygulanmakla birlikte, son yıllarda artış göstermektedir. Omuz protezi ameliyatları, multidisipliner ekip yaklaşımıyla birlikte b...

Purpose:The study was carried out to investigate the expectations of liver transplantation candidates and their relatives concerning transplantation and the difficulties they experience. Materials and Methods:This descriptive and single-center study was performed in the Transplantation Polyclinic of a public hospital in Ankara. The sample consiste...

Günümüzde sağlık alanındaki bilimsel ve teknolojik yenilikler, hastalıkların önlenmesi ve erken dönemde tedavisine olanak sağlamaktadır. Ayrıca, eğitimdeki ilerlemeler ve yaşam standartlarının yükselmesi, yaşlı nüfusun toplam nüfus içindeki oranını giderek artırmaktadır. Yaşlanmayla birlikte meydana gelen fizyolojik ve psikososyal değişiklikler, ka...

align akciğer hastalıkları, akciğerin ilerleyici ve metastaz yapan kanser-leridir. Akciğer kanserleri, tüm dünyada ve ülkemizde artan sigara alış-kanlığına paralel olarak yaygın görülen, kanserle ilgili ölümlerin başlıca nedenlerinden biridir. 1-3 Ülkemizde T.C. Sağlık Bakanlığı Türkiye Halk Sağlığı Kurumu 2014 yılı verilerine göre, akciğer kanseri...

Objective: This study aims to investigate the validity and reliability of the Turkish Revised American Pain Society Patient Outcome Questionnaire (APS-POQ-R-TR). Methods: A methodological and cross-sectional design was used. This study included a total of 250 surgical patients (98 males, 152 females) between January 2015 and January 2016. Data w...

This descriptive, cross-sectional study investigated problems experienced by patients after undergoing a thyroidectomy. The study included 60 first-time, post-thyroidectomy patients diagnosed with benign thyroid disease from a university hospital's general surgery clinic in Ankara, Turkey. The data were collected in two stages: interviews with pati...

Pain assessment has a key role in relief of the postoperative pain. In this study, we aimed to examine the effect of the Standard Pain Assessment Protocol (SPAP), which we developed based on acute pain guidelines, on pain level, and analgesic consumption. The study population consisted of a total of 101 patients who had arthroscopic shoulder surger...

Purpose: This study was conducted for the purpose of determining the effect of cold vapor applied for sore throat in the early postoperative stage. Design: A quasi-experimental design was used. Methods: The study sample consisted of 60 patients who underwent lumbar disc herniation surgery in the Neurosurgery Clinic of Gazi University Health Re...

Today, underarm and antiperspirant deodorants are extensively consumed cosmetic products in order to prevent sweating. Increasing use of these products is revived the claims of increasing of breast cancer risk. While discussing these claims, drawn attention at society, in the popular press and on the Internet, it has begun to discuss in the scienti...

Background: Families, especially mothers, experience problems providing home care after their child's surgery for developmental dysplasia of the hip (DDH). Purpose: To assess the problems experienced by parents providing postoperative home care to their child after DDH surgery. Methods: This was a descriptive cross-sectional study. The sample...

The use of face transplants has become possible in Turkey and the world in recent years. Face transplants are not just an exchange of tissue between the donor and the recipient and are social and ethical issues concerning the health care institutions, health care team and the public. The interest and criticism of the health care professionals, inst...

Purpose This study evaluated the effectiveness of a 14-week mentoring program for first year nursing students and their ways of coping with stress and locus of control. Methods The study was designed as a quasi-experimental study. Sixty-six first year students (mentees) and 66 fourth year students (mentors) were eligible to be in the mentoring pro...

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' professiona...

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...

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...

To evaluate the effectiveness of home monitoring according to the Model of Living in hip replacement surgery patients. Hip replacement surgery is important for increasing the quality of life of patients. After these operations, patients may encounter many problems having an impact on their activities of daily living. Quasi-experimental. Sixty patie...

ABSTRACT The problems experienced by the patients at home after surgery Objective: This descriptive and cross-seaional study vi/as performed to determine the problems faced by surgery patients at their home in the First month after their surgery. Material and Methods: This study v\ias conduaed by a university hospital's surgery clinics between Apri...

Clinic field experience provides the opportunities to nursing students to combine cognitive, psychomotor and affective skills, and problem-solving abilities.This study was definitively conducted to determine the opinions of nursing students regarding clinical practice guide.The universe and sampling of the study were made up of 79 students who were...

ABSTRACT Mastectomy due to breast cancer is one of the most severe traumas a woman can experience in her lifetime. Women perceive themselves as “mutilated, incomplete, diseased, and unsightly” following a mastectomy; experience emotions of depression, despair, despondency, and anger; concern for the future; and undergo adaptation problems in their...

Mentorships increase the students' confidence, help ease the difficulties associated with their new environment and reality, increase self-esteem and help socialize students into the nursing role. The main objective of the programme was to support mentee students in facilitating their transition to the university and nursing. This descriptive, expl...

Providing education to healthy/ill individuals and their families as part of both clinical and field practice is an important element in the training of nursing students. Developing educational materials is a key component of patient education that nurses should learn during school training. This investigation was conducted definitively, to determi...

ÖZET Hastanelerdeki bakım kalitesinin en önemli göstergesi olarak kabul edilen nozokomiyal enfeksiyonlar, hastanın yoğun bakımdaki ve hastanedeki yatıs süresinin uzamasına, morbidite, mortalite ve tedavi maliyetinin artmasına neden olmaktadır. Hastaneye yatan hastaların sadece %5-10’u yoğun bakım ünitelerinde tedavi görmesine karsın, tüm nozo-komiy...

Nosocomial infections which are considered as the primary indicator of the quality of care in hospitals, cause to prolong hospitalization at intensive care unit and hospital, increase morbidity, mortality, and the cost of treatment. Although only 5-10% of the patients are treated in the intensive care units, 20-25% of all nosocomial infections are...

ÖZET Meme kanseri nedeniyle ameliyat olan hastalarda lenfödem sık gelişen bir sorundur. Lenfödeme bağlı olarak hastalarda kol hareketlerinde kısıtlılık, etkilenen dokunun iyileşme kapasitesinde azalma, enfeksiyon ve ağrı görülebilmektedir. Gelişen bu sorunlar hastalarda güçsüzlüğe, beden imajında bozulmaya, benlik saygısında ve yaşam kalitesinde az...

ZET Hastanelerdeki bakım kalitesinin en önemli göster-gesi olarak kabul edilen nozokomiyal enfeksiyon-lar, hastanın yoğun bakımdaki ve hastanedeki ya-tış süresinin uzamasına, morbidite, mortalite ve te-davi maliyetinin artmasına neden olmaktadır. Has-taneye yatan hastaların sadece %5-10'u yoğun bakım ünitelerinde tedavi görmesine karşın, tüm nozo-k...

Nosocomial infections which are considered as the primary indicator of the quality of care in hospitals, cause to prolong hospitalization at intensive care unit and hospital, increase morbidity, mortality, and the cost of treatment. Although only 5-10% of the patients are treated in the intensive care units, 20- 25% of all nosocomial infections are...