Objective: To describe the meaning attributed to nurses’ clinical experience in a medical-surgical intensive care unit in Northern Cyprus. Method: The qualitative study was conducted in two medical-surgical intensive care units at a university hospital. Data were collected through in-depth interviews with 17 nurses. Giorgi’s descriptive phenomenological approach was used to analyze nurses’ experiences. The consolidated criteria for reporting a qualitative research checklist were followed in this study. Results: The data analysis led to the extraction of the 5 themes and 19 subthemes. The themes identified for the study were competence, the emotional universe, stress resources, the meaning of nursing care, and profoundly affecting events. The study results show that the nurses expressed that having gained much experience in intensive care units and working there has contributed significantly to their professional development. Conclusion: It was indicated that the nurses had meaningful, caring experiences in intensive care units, which were perceived, however, as stressful experiences as well. The study has important implications for nurses, faculty members, and administrators to gain positive care experiences in terms of intensive care units.

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Background In this context, discharge training and telephone counseling given to patients who underwent coronary artery bypass graft surgery increase the ability of patients to cope with and adapt to their self-care. Methods This study was a randomized controlled, experimental design. Both experimental and control groups consisted of 35 individuals with G*power analysis (n = 70). Patients in the experimental group were given discharge training and telephone counseling for two months. At the end of the process, data collection forms were administered to both groups for the last time. Necessary ethical approvals were taken and consent was taken from the patients. Results After the discharge training and telephone counseling given to the experimental group, the mean Exercise of Self-Care Agency Scale (ESCA) score of the patients increased by 13.94; the mean Coping and Adaptation Processing Scale (CAPS) increased by 13.6. The mean ESCA score of the control group increased by 7.86; the mean CAPS score increased by 9.14. The effect size that occurred for both groups was statistically significant ( P < 0.05). Conclusion Positive results were achieved in the experimental group which received given discharge training and telephone counseling. Trial Registration ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT05104996

Objective:The aim of the study is to determine knowledge of nursing students about taking and transferring of bio-chemical laboratory samples.Methods:The study is descriptive and was conducted during the spring semester of the 2016–2017 academic year and 118 volunteer final year nursing department students were included in the study. As a data collection tool, a questionnaire which was prepared by the researcher.Results:Eleven percentage of the final year students of the nursing department answered the information that should be in the laboratory sample request document and 83.9% responded correctly to the optimal blood-letting time for the biochemical analysis. It was determined that 52.5% of the students correctly know whether the sitting, lying or on-foot blood-letting positions affect the blood values or not, and 45.8% know the reason why blood-letting is performed in sitting or lying positions. 57.1% of the students correctly identified the medium urine sample and 14.3% correctly understood the 24-h urine collection practices.Conclusion:It was determined that the students lacked information on the taking, storage and transfer of the biochemical laboratory samples and it was detected that the missing information was provided in the curriculum.

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