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Aim: This study aimed to explore the experiences of nurses in providing care to COVID-19 patients.

Method: This qualitative study was conducted with the content analysis approach between June and Agust 2020 in Iran. Fourteen nurses working in COVID-19 wards were selected via purposive sampling. The data were collected via semi-structured interviews and the Graneheim and Lundman content analysis method was adopted for the data analysis.

Results: The experiences of nurses in providing care to COVID-19 patients were divided into four categories "a scarcity of knowledge about COVID-19 patient care," "changes in daily life," "patient care challenges," and "occupational burnout."

Conclusion: The results of this study can be used by managers when facing crises similar to COVID-19 so that by paying attention to the challenges of caring for patients identified in this study, they can make the necessary preparations for caring for patients during other pandemic crises and plan the necessary measures accordingly. Also, to maintain and promote the quality of nursing care, it is crucial to ensure the adequate provision of resources for patient care, such as utilizing personal protective equipment and mechanisms that offer financial and emotional support to nurses.

Aim: The purpose of this study is to shed light on the sense of self that occurs among those who have been diagnosed with the early stages of dementia, where the individual attempts to maintain continuity within their world.

Method: The research was conducted using qualitative induction research methods and data were collected using semi-structured interview methods. The data were reported according to COnsolidated criteria for REporting Qualitative research (COREQ).

Results: The diagnosis was Alzheimer's disease for all participants. Of the 15 participants, 6 were male and 9 female. The average age was 69.9 years. For those with the early stages of dementia, a sense of self that attempts to maintain continuity for the world in which they live is made up of the following: "living in the present while connecting to the past," "relying on those that help to connect and fill in the gaps between the past, present, and very near future," and "living daily life in one's own world where past and present are connected."

Conclusion: By understanding the sense of self that those who are diagnosed with the early stages of dementia experience while trying to maintain continuity within their world, one is able to get closer to their world and it is hoped that this may provide hints as to how to offer support in the future.

Aim: Evidence-based practice is a way to minimize the theory-to-practice gap. However, translating evidence into practice is not merely appraising the evidence, and for applying it to patients, the context factors need to be included. This study aims to analyze the meaning of the concept of "evidence translating ability" in nursing.

Method: Walker and Avant's method was utilized in this study. Keywords such as evidence, evident, transferring, translating, and ability were mixed for literature searching in PubMed, CINAHL, and Google Scholar from 2017 to April 2022.

Results: Nine studies that met inclusion criteria were analyzed. Attributes of evidence translating ability included four themes: identification of contextual barriers and facilitators to implementation, evaluation of evidence, collaboration with colleagues to modify recommendations, and pilot and dissemination. Antecedents included two themes: facilitating environment and experience of nurses. Consequences included three themes: motivating and sustaining evidence-based practice, providing high-quality care, and reducing inequity in health care.

Conclusion: Evidence translating ability requires a set of skills that nurses have to do such as identifying the challenges and analyzing the setting for searching the evidence; the best evidence is not the highest evidence hierarchy, the best evidence is the evidence that suits patient, organization, and practitioner abilities.

Aim: This study aimed to determine surgical nurses' knowledge of the risk factors and complications of inadvertent perioperative hypothermia and the practices preferred to prevent inadvertent perioperative hypothermia and to provide normothermia.

Methods: This descriptive study was conducted on 122 volunteer nurses working in the surgical clinics of a state and a private hospital between August 1 and September 15, 2019. The data collection form included questions to determine the characteristics of nurses and the risk factors, complications, and preventive practices of inadvertent perioperative hypothermia. The data forms were distributed by visiting the nurses one by one and were retrieved after an appropriate time. For statistical analyses, Statistical Package for the Social Sciences 22.0 software was used.

Results: The most known risk factors for IPH were "excessive blood loss" (75.4%), "anemia" (73.0%), and "inadequate covering of the patient/ not enough clothing" (72.9%). The most known complications of inadvertent perioperative hypothermia were "increased oxygen consumption and need" (65.6%), "hypoxemia" (61.5%), and "hypoxia" (49.4%). The most preferred method to provide normothermia in the perioperative period was "covering the patient with a blanket" (80.3%).

Conclusion: In this study, nurses did not have enough information about the risk factors and complications of Inadvertent perioperative hypothermia. In addition, it was determined that most of the nurses did not use the methods in the guidelines to prevent inadvertend perioperative hypothermia.

Aim: This study aimed to explore occupational satisfaction experienced by nurses working in a public hospital.

Method: Qualitative approach was used to explore experiences toward occupational satisfaction among 16 nurses working in different units of a selected public hospital in Tamil Nadu, South India. A semi-structured interview guide facilitated the individual in-depth face-to-face interviews, which were audio-recorded and transcribed verbatim. Thematic approach was used for data analysis and data management was performed using NVIVO-12 software.

Results: The two major themes that emerged as nurses' experiences on occupational satisfaction were "Quality patient care rendering and responses" and "Professional opportunities and responsibility." The sub-themes under quality patient care rendering and responses were patient care environment, team dynamics, leadership, and patient's health status. The sub-themes under professional opportunities and responsibility were pay and promotion, professional growth, and recognition.

Conclusion: The findings help us understand the various facilitating and hindering challenges nurses face in occupational satisfaction. It also emphasizes the organization's focus on modifiable factors in the working environment, enhancing satisfaction, and helping the nurses work more effectively and efficiently to deliver quality nursing care. Nursing administration in every healthcare setting should focus on strategies to improve nurses' professional development.

Aim: This study was conducted to determine the intercultural and ethical sensitivity levels of healthcare professionals working in primary healthcare institutions and related factors.

Method: This is a cross-sectional study. It conducted between January 2020 and January 2021 on healthcare professionals working in primary healthcare institutions in a western province in Turkey. The population of the study consisted of 679 healthcare professionals working in family healthcare centers, and the sample consisted of 265 healthcare professionals. In the research, a questionnaire form including personal characteristics, Intercultural Sensitivity Scale, and Moral Sensitivity Questionnaire were used.

Results: Healthcare professionals' Intercultural Sensitivity Scale total score was 92.96 ± 11.96, and Moral Sensitivity Questionnaire total score was 94.13 ± 25.88. Intercultural sensitivity level increased depending on the status of gender, marital status, level of education, having a friend from different countries, and providing care for patients with different cultural characteristics, and ethical sensitivity level increased depending on the geographical region in which the person was raised. As the ethical sensitivity of healthcare professionals increased, the level of intercultural sensitivity increased (p < .05).

Conclusion: In line with the findings obtained, it was concluded that the individual characteristics of healthcare professionals were effective on the scale scores.

Aim: This study aimed to investigate the relationship among clinical nursing teachers' perceived stress, job stress, and teaching self-efficacy and to identify important predictors of clinical nursing teachers' teaching self-efficacy.

Method: A cross-sectional study was designed. Data were collected from May 2019 to January 2020, and 205 clinical nursing teachers were recruited from the Department of Nursing in Taiwan. Data were collected for the Perceived Stress Scale, Job Content Questionnaire, and Clinical Nursing Teacher Self-Efficacy Scale. Descriptive statistics, independent t-test, Pearson's correlation, and multiple/stepwise linear regressions were used for analysis.

Results: Perceived stress and work stress are related to clinical nursing teachers' teaching self-efficacy. Multiple regression analysis showed that perceived stress and three dimensions of job stress (workload, job control, and work-related social support) were identified as significant predictors of teaching self-efficacy, explaining 16.6% of the total variance. Workload was the strongest predictor of teaching self-efficacy, explaining 5.5% of the variance, while perceived stress, job control, and work-related social support accounted for 2.7%, 4.1%, and 1.7% of the variance, respectively.

Conclusion: Perceived stress and job stress were identified as predictors of teaching self-efficacy of clinical nursing teachers. Managers can formulate self-efficacy improvement and decompression plans for clinical nursing teachers to improve teaching self-efficacy.