The predictive effect of identity functions of nursing students on their global social responsibility tendencies: A cross-sectional study.

BACKGROUND: Global social responsibility is a concept related to being responsible for all living creatures, nature, and the world that all these form as a whole. Identity functions indicate what psychological gains the individual has through a feeling of a successfully structured identity. OBJECTIVE: To explore the predictive effect of identity functions of nursing students on their global social responsibility tendencies. DESIGN: Cross-sectional and descriptive design. SETTINGS: Data collection was performed in the 2021-2022 academic year. PARTICIPANTS: 723 nursing students. METHODS: A self-administered questionnaire assessed Global Social Responsibility and Identity Functions. RESULTS: Students scored the highest on the ecological responsibility subscale regarding their global social responsibility level and the lowest score on the national responsibility subscale. It was determined that some sociodemographic variables affect students' global social responsibility tendencies on different subscales. It was identified that a weak and positive relationship was found between nursing students' global social responsibility tendencies and identity functions. CONCLUSIONS: Global social responsibility, which is one of the indicators of identity acquisition, is among the leading values that nursing students should gain in contemporary nursing education.

Perceptions of society regarding the concept of nurse: A metaphorical study.

INTRODUCTION: Metaphors are one of the most effective linguistic tools that are used to reveal how society describes nursing and what their vision of nursing is and to understand how effective the roles and responsibilities assumed by nurses in a multidisciplinary healthcare team are in protecting and maintaining the health of individuals, families, and society. AIM: The aim of this study was to reveal the perceptions of society about "nurses" through metaphors. METHODS: The study was planned with a mixed design involving qualitative and quantitative research methods. It was carried out with 810 people living in Turkey who were between the ages of 15 and 65 and voluntarily participated in the study. Each participant was asked to fill in the blanks in the sentence, "A nurse is like a/an………………because…………" The data were analyzed by using qualitative (content analysis) and quantitative (chi-squared) data analysis methods. RESULTS: It was determined that the participants produced 194 metaphors related to the concept of a "nurse." It was observed that they frequently used metaphors of "angel," "parent," "doctor's assistant/right hand," "lifesaver," and "confidant" regarding the concept of nurse and conceptualized a nurse as "Beneficial/Helpful/Healer/Facilitator." CONCLUSIONS AND CLINICAL RELEVANCE: The results showed that the awareness and perception of society toward nurses should be improved on the basis of the opportunity created by the COVID-19 pandemic period, and the concepts should be introduced to younger generations in a wider framework under the leadership of nursing faculties.

The effectiveness of virtual reality simulation as learning strategy in the acquisition of medical skills in nursing education: a systematic review.

PURPOSE: This review was aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of virtual reality simulation as a teaching / learning strategy on the acquisition of clinical skills and performance, self-confidence, satisfaction and anxiety level in nursing education. METHODOLOGY: The Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews guidelines, using the PICO model that is based on an evidence-based practice process was matched. A total of twenty-three studies included six themes: performance skills (n = 13), self-confidence (n = 8), satisfaction (n = 10), anxiety level (n = 3), self-efficacy (n = 4), and knowledge (n = 15). Experimental randomised control trials and quasi-experimental studies from 2009 to 2019, conducted in English, were included. Nursing students (n = 1797; BSN, ADN, MSc, LPN) participated. RESULTS AND CONCLUSION: This review was indicated that virtual reality simulation provides learning strategy to acquire clinical skills, improve knowledge acquisition, increase self-confidence, self-efficacy, and satisfaction level, and decrease anxiety levels among nursing students.

Transitioning Nursing Students' Education from Traditional Classroom to Online Education during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Case Study Applied to the Meleis Trial.

Theories can be used to determine the factors that affect a situation and the most appropriate ways to reach a goal. The coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic has deeply affected nursing education in which had considered a critical factor in the transition of teaching methods that is being and will be experienced. Transition is a process of changing from a known to an unknown state. Personal, community, and social factors can facilitate or prevent a transition. In this study, nursing education as well as nursing students and educators are at the center of these changes and transitions to online learning, which is an institutional (organizational) type of transition. Nursing students understand the level of awareness of an individual, responsibilities that they need to take, changes to be experienced, beginning and expected end time of the transition, critical turning points and important points, impact of the change on daily life, stages of the individual, and reactions during different stages of this process. This article discusses the transition process of a 21-year-old nursing student (initials: MN) from the traditional classroom to online education and the factors affecting this process.

Personal and professional values held by baccalaureate nursing students.

BACKGROUND: Values are ideals and beliefs that individuals and groups uphold and lie at the core of the diverse world of human behaviour and are expressed in every human decision and action, both consciously and unconsciously. They represent basic beliefs of what is right, good or desirable and motivate both personal and professional behaviour. In the context of nursing profession, values are essential in order to maintain high standards of the nursing care. OBJECTIVES: This study was planned to examine changes in nursing students' personal and professional values between entering and graduating from an undergraduate nursing programme. Ethical considerations: Measures to protect participants included obtaining Deaconship of Nursing Faculty approval, obtaining signed informed consent and maintaining confidentiality. METHODS: This study was designed as longitudinal quality. The research population included 143 students registered at a first grade of a nursing faculty for the 2009-2010 academic year. Data were collected with a Questionnaire Form, the Value Preferences Scale, the Professional Values Precedence Scale and the Nursing Professional Values Scale. FINDINGS: According to the results, social values have statistical differences in 4-year nursing education. Nursing students in second class have higher score in terms of social values than those in third class. Also, majority of students ranked human dignity as first and justice as second and third from first to fourth classes, and they have very high scores on Nursing Professional Values Scale and its subscales and stated that all items of Nursing Professional Values Scale are very important. CONCLUSION: As a result, nursing education has vital role in acquiring and maintaining professional values.

Relationship between self-compassion and emotional intelligence in nursing students.

Nursing focuses on meeting physical, social and emotional health-care needs of individuals, families and society. In health care, nurses directly communicate with patients and try to empathize with them. Nurses give care under emotionally intense conditions where the individual undergoes pain and distress. Research is aimed at analysing the correlation of self-compassion and emotional intelligence of nursing students. The population of the research consisted of all the undergraduate students (571 students) of the 2010-2011 fall semester of the department of nursing. An information form, Self-compassion Scale and Emotional Intelligence Assessment Scale were utilized to obtain data for the research. For the assessment of the findings of research, Statistical Package for Social Sciences 16.0 for Windows was utilized for statistical analysis. Results indicated that there is a correlation between self-compassion and emotional intelligence and that emotional intelligence, which includes the individual perceiving one's emotions and using the knowledge one gained from them to function while directing thoughts, actions and professional applications, has positive contributions to the features of nurses with developed self-compassion.

Metaphors used by in-service training nurses for in-service training nurses in Turkey.

AIM: To report a study conducted using a qualitative and quantitative study pattern with an aim to reveal the perceptions of in-service training nurses about in-service training nurses via metaphors. BACKGROUND: The in-service training nurse assumes great responsibility in the effective and efficient implementation of the educational activities in healthcare. In line with this, determining the perceptions of the in-service training nurses about in-service training nurses via metaphors and taking this into consideration in professional activities are important in terms of developing, changing, or questioning the perspectives of the in-service training nurses about their roles and developing their own training nurse identity. DESIGN: This article was designed as qualitative and quantitative study pattern. METHODS: The population of the study included 93 in-service training nurses. Data were collected between June-September 2009. To collect data, each in-service training nurse was asked to complete the blanks in the sentence, 'The in-service training nurse is like a/an.....................because..................' The data were analysed using qualitative (content analysis) and quantitative (chi-square) data analysis methods. FINDINGS: According to the findings of the study, the in-service training nurses identified 59 metaphors in total. The metaphors were grouped under nine conceptual categories depending on the characteristics they had in common. In cognitive image of the in-service training nurses relating to the concept of in-service training nurse, the outstanding conceptual category was the in-service training nurse as a knowledge provider. CONCLUSION: The metaphors can be used as a strong research tool in understanding, revealing and explaining the cognitive images of the in-service training nurses.

Personal values of baccalaureate nursing students in Turkey.

Value education is aimed at helping students develop a mode of reasoning, enabling them to make decisions and deal with conflicts on a daily basis. For this, it should firstly be assessment personal values of nursing students. The purpose of the study was to determine the personal values of nursing students with respect to certain variables. The population of the study, which had a cross-sectional design, included all undergraduate students (n = 525) attending the nursing school. The sample group comprised 397 nursing students selected from among the nursing students attending a baccalaureate programme in Turkey using the disproportional cluster sampling method. Data were collected utilizing the Personal Information Form and Value Preferences Scale. The personal values of the students were found to be moral, social, financial/economic, aesthetic, political, religious and scientific/theoretical values. The study suggested that the age, year at school and economic level of the family affected the students' values. Values influence behaviours that are an essential component of humanistic nursing care. They are integral to professional socialization, evident in nursing care and fundamental decisions that affect practice.