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Gynecological cancers are defined as highly malignant formations or malignant tumors that are very common in female genital organs. The roles and responsibilities undertaken to ensure the management of medical, basic health and psychosocial conditions of individuals are expressed as self-care power. Primary, secondary and tertiary symptoms experienced by patients with gynecological cancer negatively affect their self-care ability. In this context, it is seen that the self-care ability of gynecological cancer patients is low or medium level and the nurses' ability to evaluate gynecological cancer patients in terms of self-care ability is weak. Therefore, nurses, especially nurses who specialize in obstetrics and gynecology nursing, should holistically evaluate individuals with gynecological cancer, identify physical and psychosocial problems, and plan the patient's care. Knowing that within the scope of holistic health, the individual is a mental, physical and psychosocial being and that each individual's needs are different, nurses should support the self-care of gynecological cancer patients according to their addiction status. In this review, it is aimed to examine the role of the nurse in the self-care of patients with gynecological cancer. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Background: It was aimed to present the knowledge, awareness levels and clinical follow-up data of the hepatitis B infected healthcare workers about hepatitis B virus in our hospital. Materials and Methods: In this study, HBsAg positivity among healthcare workers who were screened by Occupational Health and Safety Unit at Batman Training and Research Hospital between 01.01.2022 and 31.12.2022 were referred to the Infectious Diseases and Clinical Microbiology outpatient clinic. The demographic characteristics of the workers, the current status of hepatitis B, the vaccination status of family members, the history of sharp injuries, and the answers to the questions about the stigma exposure due to hepatitis B were evaluated. The results of advanced laboratory tests related to hepatitis B of the patients were analyzed. Results: HBsAg positivity was detected in 69 (3.2%) of the 2148 workers who were screened. The mean age of workers was 38.55±9.21 years (min-max: 20-60), 52 (75.4%) were male. The majority of those with HBsAg positivity (n=25, 36.2%) were nurses/midwives/health officials, followed by cleaning staff (n=16, 23.2%). The diagnosis of hepatitis B virus infection was first determined during occupational screening (55.2%) and secondly during family screening. It was determined that 44.8% of the workers had a history of sharp injuries, 23.3% had viral serological examinations after injury, and only 13.3% had the serology of the source checked. It was observed that 14 (20.9%) workers diagnosed of hepatitis B did not tell other healthcare workers about their diagnosis. It was found that of those with HBsAg positivity 28 (41.8%) never came to the Infectious Diseases and Clinical Microbiology or Gastroenterology outpatient controls, 10 (14.9%) rarely came, and 8 (11.6%) received treatment for chronic hepatitis B. Conclusions: In this study, the fact that healthcare workers did not go to outpatient follow-ups at regular intervals for further examination and treatment despite the suspicion of hepatitis B infection with life-threatening chronic complications or the known disease suggests that they do not have sufficient awareness of the disease. In addition, the lack of serological control of the source when exposed to sharps injuries is an important problem of preventing infectious diseases. The data of the study reveal that training for workers should be given more importance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Noise is an important problem for nurses and patients in hospitals. To exposure noise to may cause negative effects on psychology and performance. The study was designed to determine decibel levels on the hospital’s four unified clinics and compare noise effects to state anxiety levels of patients and nurses. The study was carried out in accordance with the cross-sectional descriptive research feature. Information Form, Spielberger Anxiety Inventory were applied to 40 patients and 14 nurses who are selected by random sampling and are willing to participate in the study. A measurement of the sound level of unified clinics was performed in the morning and after lunch for two days in public hospital. 65% of patients and all of nurses stated that there was noise in the clinic. 48% of patients and 71% of nurses expressed that it caused a headache. The majority of patients and nurses stated that the sources of noise were human and device sounds. The sound levels in the clinics were found to be higher than the sound levels in national and international standards. The state anxiety levels were 39.29 ± 5.61 for nurses and 45.4 ± 4.86 for patients. There was no significant difference between the patient and nurses’ state anxiety scores in terms of clinical sound levels (p > .05). The sound level of the hospital should be ensured to comply with the values recommended by the World Health Organization. The noise control should be provided in hospitals. It has been suggested to investigate the negative psychological effects of noise in particular for nurses and patients in the other studies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Covid-19 pandemic, which started in China and spread rapidly around the world as from the first months of 2020, has also affected Turkey. Initially, in the countries where the disease was intense, and then around the world, preventing the disease, treating diagnosed patients and reducing death rates became the most important problem. In this struggle of countries, the number of hospitals, the number of intensive care beds and the number of doctors and nurses per patient took an important place. However, despite these developments in the field of health, Turkey is still not among the best countries yet in the sort of patient beds worldwide but the number of intensive care beds is higher than the average of OECD countries. Although this is effective in keeping death rates low in Turkey during the Covid-19 pandemic, other factors need to be taken into account in addition to the parameters that determine the success rate in the fight against Corona. Perhaps the most important one among these factors is the successful crisis management carried out by the authorities. This study was conducted to determine the factors behind the success of the fight against the Covid-19 pandemic in Turkey and the low death rates observed throughout the country. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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