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Purpose: To evaluate the relationship of caring behaviors with moral sensitivity, emotional intelligence and descriptive characteristics in intensive care nurses.Method: Descriptive study. The sample of this study consisted of 156 nurses. The data were collected using introductory information form, caring behaviors inventory, moral sensitivity questionnaire, and emotional intelligence scale. The factors affecting caring behavior were determined using stepwise multiple linear regression.Finding: It was determined that high education level, working in shifts, as well as appraisal of emotion subscale of emotional intelligence scale and also autonomy, expressing benevolence, and following praxis subscales of moral sensitivity questionnaire were high predictors for caring behaviors.

Purpose: To examine the relationship between nursing students' perceptions of clinical instructor caring and their professional behaviors.Method: This study used a descriptive and cross-sectional design. The data were analyzed with Pearson's correlation and Linear regression analyses.Results: The professional behaviors of nursing students were found to increase their desire to become a nurse in the future with "instills confidence through caring" and "supportive learning climate" subscales but to decrease their desire to be an academician in the future. Conclusion:As students' perceptions of clinical instructor caring increased, their status of applying professional behaviors was found to increase, as well.

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Breast cancer is the most common cancer type with the highest mortality rate in women globally and in Turkey (1). With early diagnosis, survival and treatment increases by 90% in breast cancers (2). For cancers with genetic and environmental risk factors, measures that focus on changeable risk factors and early diagnosis are essential strategies (3,4). Healthy People 2020 program by the United States Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion objectives include reducing breast cancer mortality rate, decreasing the number of people with late-stage cancer, and improving women's breast cancer diagnosis behaviors (5). It is important for these objectives to determine women's breast cancer perceptions as breast cancer perceptions and diagnosis behaviors with healthy living are considered to be significantly associated. Perceived breast cancerPerception is the process of evaluating her recent experiences and past experiences and reaching a new whole (6). Understanding how breast cancer perceptions affect healthy living and early diagnosis behaviors are important to increase such behaviors. This study developed Breast Cancer Perception Scale by taking The Health Belief Model as a reference.In the literature, women's beliefs about mammography and breast self-examination (7), their perceived sensitivity to breast cancer, and their perceived benefits and barriers to mammography use (8), fear of breast cancer (9), fatalism toward cancer (10), and their attitude toward cancer have