Background: Sexual health and function frequently are overlooked by healthcare professionals despite being identified as an essential aspect of patient care. Patients with cancer have identified sexuality issues as being of equal importance to other quality-of-life issues. Objectives: The aim of this study was to determine the views and attitudes of oncology nurses caring for cancer patients regarding sexual counseling. Participants and Methods: A descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted on the web site of the Turkish Oncology Nurses Association. With the participation of 87 nurses from oncology departments, the study determined that most nurses do not evaluate and counsel patients regarding their sexual problems and many difficulties prevent them from focussing on sexual health. The most important reasons for ignoring sexual counseling were the absence of routine regarding sexual counseling in oncology departments, the belief that the patient may become ashamed and the nurses' self-evaluation that they have insufficient skills and education to counsel in this subject. Conclusions: The most important variables in sexual evaluation and counseling are long years of service in the profession and a postgraduate degree.
A high level of satisfaction with the care provided by nursing students indicates that the students were able to meet the patients' needs, which may serve as an indicator of the quality of nursing education and quality of care provided by future nurses.
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the content of prenatal training on websites. Content analysis technique, one of the qualitative research methods, was used in the study. In this research, 3 basic themes were reached regarding the ability of websites to influence/persuade individuals. These are the presentation of the websites themselves, the presentation of the service, and indicators to demonstrate its reliability. When the web pages are examined, the profession of the trainers is not specified in 15.9% of the sites that give information about birth preparation education. 28.9% of them stated that they were a multidisciplinary team and 55.2% were the only educators/alone. In multidisciplinary team of the trainers, 80% are doctors, 40% midwives, 35% birth coach/doula, 25% psychologists, 20% pilates/yoga specialist, 15% nurse academic, 15% were physiotherapists, and 15% dieticians. "Online Pregnancy School" program prepared by the Ministry of Health should be announced more and official health institutions should be increase for antenatal training for choosing the right educational resources.
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