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.

Assessment preferences of nursing and medical students: A correlational research.

AIM: The study aims to determine nursing and medical students' preferences for assessment in education and factors affecting their preferences for assessment. BACKGROUND: It is crucial to design the evaluation and evaluation processes in education to develop desired behaviours in education and to determine whether the intended goals in education have been achieved. In earlier studies on assessment practices affecting student learning and academic achievement, it has been emphasized that students' preferences for assessment and different practices in assessment have a significant effect on their academic performance. DESIGN: This research was designed as nonexperimental and quantitative research of correlational design with linear regression statistical analyses approach. METHODS: The participants consisted of 641 students (including 169 medical students with 472 nursing students), who were volunteered to participate in the study and reached with the method of convenience sampling. The 'Assessment Preferences Inventory' adapted to Turkish by Gulbahar and Buyukozturk (2008) was used as a data collection tool. To analyze the data, descriptive statistics, the Mann-Whitney-U test, the Kruskal-Wallis test and logistic regression with Bonferroni correction to control the type I error were applied. RESULTS: In the study, it was found that male students preferred alternative assessment methods and complex/constructive assessment more than female students and male students expected more questions assessing cognitive processes while female students needed more preparations for assessment. In addition, it was determined that medical students preferred complex/constructive assessment more; on the other hand, nursing students preferred simple-multiple choice assessment more and had the need for pre-assessment preparations more. Besides, it was detected that the variables of the students' grade level had an impact on their assessment preferences and that there was a minimal relationship between the students' age and academic achievement with their assessment preferences. CONCLUSIONS: This study showed that the department, gender and grade level were effective on assessment preferences.

How Effective Are Patient Education Materials in Educating Patients?

The aim of this research was to evaluate the patient education materials prepared and published by nurses and physicians in terms of the qualitative properties of these materials, including readability, understandability, and actionability. A total of 38 patient education materials prepared by nurses and physicians in a university hospital in Turkey were evaluated. The readability of the materials was assessed using the formulas proposed by Atesman and Cetinkaya. The Patient Education Materials Assessment Tool (PEMAT) form was used for estimating the understandability and actionability. Data were analyzed using the percentile and mean values, and the Kendall's Tau-c and correlation tests were used for interobserver agreement. According to the assessments based on the readability formulas, 55.3% of the materials were moderately difficult, while 81.6% had instructional-level readability (U.S. Grades 8 and 9) with a moderate to low level of understandability and actionability. Consequently, the patient education materials evaluated in our study had a moderate level of readability, understandability, and actionability.

Ego States of nurses working in psychiatric clinics according to transactional analysis theory.

OBJECTIVE: An effective interpersonal communication is an essential nursing skill required to help provide quality health care and meet the treatment objectives. The aim of this study was to investigate the communication between the psychiatric nurses and the patients in terms of Transactional Analysis Theory ego states. METHODS: The quantitative and qualitative research methods were used. The descriptive statistics (frequency, percentage, mean, standard deviation) were used in the data analysis and Kendall's Tau-c coefficient was used to assess the agreement among the observers. RESULTS: Of the psychiatric nurses, 66.7% (n = 14) had served as a psychiatric nurse for 1-10 years. Among the nurses, 52.4% (n=11) had received training about communication from any institution/organization. The agreement among the opinions of the nurses, the researcher and the charge nurses about the psychiatric nurses' ego states showed that there was a significant relationship between the researcher's opinion of the nurses' ego states and the charge nurses' opinion of the nurses' ego states in terms of Critical Parent, Nurturing Parent, Adult, Adapted Child and Natural Child ego states. CONCLUSION: It is suggested that training be offered in regards to raising awareness about ulterior transactions that can affect communication negatively, patient autonomy and therapeutic communication in particular, and patients requiring the use of special communication methods.

The society's view of nursing in Turkey.

This study was conducted in order to ensure the educational transformation of a school of health at a state university, within the scope of the Bologna Process. A review of the literature suggests that dependent functions of nursing are studied more often than its independent functions, but independent functions of nursing are not properly understood by society. The population consisted of 458 people in Düzce. They were chosen using a stratified sampling method. The researchers developed a questionnaire form to use as the data collection tool. The data were evaluated by means of descriptive statistics. People living in Düzce region believed that nurses primarily perform care activities, that they act as assistants to doctors. Nurses who perform practical tasks were given positive ratings for their interpersonal communication skills, but the participants also expected nursing school to improve educational structuring to help nursing students acquire communication skills. Nursing education programs must be restructured to improve nursing students' communication skills. It is the first step for structuring education program to know what is nursing image within society. In light of this approach nursing program can be restructured to local tendencies.

Medical errors: an important indicator of quality of care and patient safety.

This study aimed to determine nurses' tendency toward medical errors and identify the types of medical errors made. This article examined medical error trends of nurses with a survey. It is recommended that medical errors be recorded, various training activities be offered, and standards regarding nursing care and patient safety be determined.

Academic dishonesty among nursing students: a descriptive study.

This descriptive and cross-sectional study aims to evaluate academic dishonesty among university nursing students in Turkey. The study's sample included 196 students. Two instruments were used for gathering data. The first instrument, a questionnaire, which included some socio-demographic variables (age, class, gender, education, family structure, parents' attitude and educators' attitude) formed the first part. The second part included the Academic Dishonesty Tendency Scale developed by Eminoglu and Nartgün. The data were analyzed using descriptive statistics and Kruskall Wallis, One-way Anova, t- test and Mann-Whitney U test. It was found that academic dishonesty was at medium-level (2.60-3.39) in nursing students.

Is nursing a profession in Turkey?

Nursing has been a dynamic process since the existence of humanity on Earth. As a part of this process, whether nursing is an occupation or a profession has been a long-lasting question. There exist different sets of criteria and schemes of classification that are used to define professions. In this article the authors inquire into the professionalism of nursing in Turkey in view of the criteria for nursing professionalism first set by B. K. Miller et al. (1993).

Nurse faculty members' ego states: transactional analysis approach.

This study uses a Transactional Analysis Approach (TA) to investigate communication between faculty and students in nursing education. The research population was comprised of nurse faculty members (N=33) employed at a school of nursing and students (N=482) registered at the same school. The research sample was comprised of 26 faculty members and 325 students. Data collection was performed via questionnaires, focus group interviews and observation. Qualitative data were analyzed using descriptive analysis methods, and quantitative data were evaluated using the Mann-Whitney U test and the Pearson moment correlation coefficients technique. Using the Transactional Analysis Approach (TA), faculty members viewed themselves as an Adult and felt they used the Critical Parent ego state the least. Students also perceived that faculty members used the Adult ego state the most and used the Free Child ego state the least.