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Amaç: Bu çalışmanın amacı, hemşirelik bölümü öğrencilerinde sosyal destek ile boyun eğici davranışlar arasındaki ilişkinin incelenmesidir. Yöntemler: Araştırma, tanımlayıcı nitelikte olup, çalışmanın örneklemini Türkiye’de bir kamu üniversitesinde 2014-2015 akademik yılı içinde hemşirelik bölümünde öğrenim gören 520 öğrenci oluşturdu. Araştırma verileri, “Öğrenci Tanıtım Formu”, “Boyun Eğici Davranış Ölçeği (BEDÖ)” ve “Çok Boyutlu Algılanan Sosyal Destek Ölçeği (ÇBASDÖ)” kullanılarak toplandı. Araştırma verilerinin değerlendirilmesinde; frekans, yüzde, aritmetik ortalama, Student t testi, Pearson korelasyon analizi ve Tek yönlü varyans analizi kullanıldı. Bulgular: Araştırmaya dahil olan öğrencilerin yaş ortalaması 22,04±1,31 yıl olup, %67,7’sinin kız, %43,8’inin birinci sınıfta öğrenim gördüğü, %83,7’sinin ise ekonomik desteğe ihtiyacı olduğu belirlendi. Hemşirelik öğrencilerinin ÇBASDÖ toplam puan ortalaması 64,65±14,52 iken, BEDÖ toplam puan ortalaması 36,15±9,63 olarak bulundu. Araştırmadaki kız öğrencilerin ÇBASDÖ toplam puan ortalamaları, erkek öğrencilerin puan ortalamalarından (p

Hemşirelikte eleştirel düşünme; bireyin kendi düşünmesinin farkında olarak, düşünmesini geliştirmeye yönelik, bilgiyi araması, elde etmesi, değerlendirmesi, analiz ve sentez etmesi, karar vermesi ve bunun sonucunda bilgiye yaratıcılığını da katarak, risk alarak, kullanma yeteneği ve becerisidir. Eleştirel düşünme, hemşirelikte hasta bakımını potansiyel olarak etkilediği için oldukça önemlidir. Bu nedenle hızla değişen sağlık bakım sistemi ve teknoloji nedeniyle hemşireler, optimal hasta bakımını sağlamada ve klinik karar vermede eleştirel düşünmeyi kullanabilmelidir. Eleştirel düşünme eğilim ve becerilerini kullanan ve geliştiren hemşireler bireysel olduğu kadar, mesleki gelişim, hemşirelik uygulamalarının iyileştirilmesi ve toplumun sağlık bakım kalitesinin yükseltilmesi açısından da katkı sağlarlar. Bu makalede, eleştirel düşünmenin tanımı ve hemşirelikteki yerinin yanısıra, eleştirel düşünmenin ölçülmesi ile hemşirelikte eleştirel düşünme konusunda yapılan bilimsel araştırma sonuçları tartışılmıştır. Critical thinking in nursery is the ability and skill of an individual, who is aware of his/her own reasoning, to go in quest of information, to acquire, assess, analyse and synthesise information, to take decisions and consequently to use it by combining it with his/her own creativity and taking risk in order to improve the individual's ability to think. Critical thinking is essential since it potentially affects the patient care in nursery. Therefore, nurses should be able to employ critical thinking in ensuring optimal patient care and clinical decision-taking processes due to rapidly changing health care system and technology. Nurses who are able to use and improve their propensity to and ability of critical thinking contribute in improvement of nursery practices and rising the quality of health care practices applied on people in addition to their own improvement and development. In this article, definition of critical thinking and its role in nursery were discussed in addition to results of scientific studies conducted on measurement of critical thinking and critical thinking in nursery.

WOS:000311459400005 PubMed: 23098436 Social support is regarded as a complex construct which has long been suggested to have direct and buffering effects on patients' wellbeing and emotional adjustment to cancer. Cross-sectional and prospective studies show a positive association between perceived social support and psychological adjustment following cancer treatment. Research findings suggest that the evidence for the relationship between social support and cancer progression is sufficiently strong. This report points out the importance of social support in cancer and provides recommendations for health care professionals.

Background The management of diabetic foot complications is challenging, time-consuming and costly. Such complications frequently recur, and the feet of individuals with diabetes can be easily infected. The variables that predict foot care behaviours must be identified to improve foot care attitudes and behaviours. Thus, this study aimed to evaluate the predictors of foot care behaviours in individuals with diabetes and the role of these variables. Methods This descriptive and analytic study was carried out between July 2015 and July 2016, and 368 outpatients with diabetes from a public hospital in Turkey were included. The participants had no communication, psychiatric or neurological problems and had been diagnosed with diabetes for at least 1 year. Foot care behaviour was the dependent variable and was evaluated with the foot care behaviour questionnaire. The relationship among foot care behaviours and sociodemographic characteristics, diabetes-related attitudes, disease perception, health beliefs and perceived social support was evaluated. Factors that independently predicted effective foot care behaviours were estimated via a linear regression analysis. Results The foot care behaviour score of the participants was above average (54.8 ± 5.0). Gender (t = −2.38, p = 0.018), history of a foot wound (t = −2.74, p = 0.006), nephropathy (t = 3.13, p = 0.002), duration subscale of the illness perception scores (t = 2.26, p = 0.024) and personal control subscale of the health belief scores (t = −2.07, p = 0.038) were significant predictors of foot care behaviours. These variables, which provided model compatibility, accounted for approximately 22.0% of the total variance of the foot care behaviour score (R = 0.47, R2 = 0.22, F = 5.48, p ≤ 0.001). Discussion Our results show factors that may affect diabetic foot care behaviours. Several of these factors prevent individuals from practising these behaviours. Further studies on the roles of barriers as predictors of foot care behaviours must be conducted.

WOS:000306945700023 PubMed: 22799309 Objective: The aim of this study was to investigate the meaning of "positive attitude" for medical surgical nurses in caring for cancer patients. Methods: A qualitative method was used in this qualitative descriptive study with data from nurses who had volunteered to participate in an in-depth interview that was conducted between January and February 2012. A total of 10 nurses in general medical and surgical wards of a district hospital were interviewed. Results: The study used three broad themes to describe this multifaceted construct: showing empathy, seeing positively and behaving positively. The nurses were aware of their attitudes towards being positive with cancer patients and its significance in support for cancer patients. Conclusions: The findings of this study can serve as a platform upon which educational and other support programmes can be developed in order to meet the needs of those general nurses working with cancer patients. Future studies are recommended to examine nurses' beliefs about cancer that are thought to affect positive attitudes toward cancer patients.