Nurse managers can use the results to plan interventions that improve resilience among nurses.
The aim of this study was to determine nurses’ opinions on Do Not Resuscitate (DNR) orders. This is a descriptive study. A total of 1250 nurses participated in this study. The mean age of participants was 34.5 ± 7.7 years; 92.6% were women; 56.4% had bachelor’s degrees, and 28.8% were intensive care, oncology, or palliative care nurses. Most participants (94.3%) agreed that healthcare professionals involved in DNR decision-making processes should have ethical competence, while they were mostly undecided (43%) about the statement whether or not DNR should be legal. More than half the participants (60.2%) disagreed with the idea that DNR implementation causes an ethical dilemma. Participants’ opinions on DNR decisions significantly differed according to the number of years of employment and unit of duty. The results showed that most of the nurses had positive attitudes towards DNR orders despite it being illegal. Future studies are needed to better understand family members’ and decision makers’ perceptions of DNR orders for patients.
Purpose: To examine how the risky use of smartphone in nursing students affects their daily goals.Design and Methods: A total of 419 nursing students participated in this study. A Descriptive Data Form, Smartphone Addiction Scale-Short Version, and Daily Goals Scale were used to collect the data.Findings: According to our study results; students who are afraid of forgetting or losing their phone have a higher risk of being smartphone addiction. As the risks of students' smartphone addiction increase, their daily goal setting levels decreased.Practice Implications: The risky use of smartphone effects negatively daily goals setting. Education and counseling programs that will prevent the risky use of smartphones and the associated risk of addiction should be provided for nursing students. K E Y W O R D Sdaily goals, nursing students, smartphone | INTRODUCTION AND BACKGROUNDSmartphones have become one of the indispensable elements of daily life especially among young people all over the world as well as in Turkey. [1][2][3] Interactions with others on social networks, watching and sharing videos and pictures, email, online shopping, and easily accessible applications have increased the use of smartphones. Besides, the convenience they provide for daily life such as getting health care information, online banking, and finding addresses and routes while waiting in traffic or in a queue attract consumers, resulting in constantly increasing sales of smartphones with frequent addition of new features. 4 Although using smartphones facilitates daily activities, it can also have a negative effect on interpersonal relationships, and physical and mental health. 3,[5][6][7][8] The use of mobile phones during driving can especially cause problems and even traffic accidents. Smartphone users are more likely to experience somatic symptoms, insomnia, social dysfunction, anxiety, and depression compared to the nonsmartphone users and it is also possible to become addicted to smartphones as seen with alcohol and other substances. [9][10][11] Smartphone addiction is a relatively new phenomenon. 12,13 Although it has not been included under the category of nonsubstance-related disorders in Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (5th Edition), it is predicted that smartphone use will be included as a separate diagnosis under behavioral addiction in future clinical studies. 14,15 Repetitive behaviors are at the root of behavioral addictions. Behaviors that give pleasure to the person become habitual with repetition. However, one must be careful when considering a habitual behavior as an addiction. An addiction entails the person's excessive involvement with a certain behavior, repeating this behavior to escape from the real world or to create a pleasant feeling, the development of tolerance as the behavior is repeated, and the disruption of functionality with the emergence of withdrawal symptoms such as tension, irritability, and restlessness when the repetition of the behavior is prevented. [16][17][18][19][20] Excessive...
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