Ayla Yava

TL;DR: Clinical protocols should be revised and nurses should be trained in current fasting protocols because receiving nothing by mouth after midnight preoperatively is a persisted intervention and results in discomfort of patients.

TL;DR: It is found that the nurses working in training and research hospital in Turkey did not have adequate knowledge and the positive attitude for pain management although it is a very important part of patient care.

TL;DR: Preoperative skin preparation using clipper on the nights before an operation and a 50 ml chlorhexidine bath excluding head area taken twice in the pre-operative period are useful to reduce SSI during postoperative period.

TL;DR: In this article, the effect of transcultural nursing education given to nursing students has been investigated by different researchers and different methods, and the authors aim to synthesize the findings of studies evaluating educational programs providing curricular transcultural education.