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Background: Nurses are faced with the sexual behavior of the patients. These behaviors do not mean that the patient cannot meet their sexual needs. It is not known how often nurses encounter such behaviors, how nurses' approach sexual patient behaviors, and whether nurses have a therapeutic approach. Purpose: This study was carried out in order to reveal how often nurses encounter sexual behaviors of patients and to determine whether nurses show a therapeutic approach to sexual patient behaviors. Methods: The cross-sectional study was conducted with 276 nurses. The data were collected by using a Questionnaire Form. Data were analyzed using descriptive and chi-square test. Results: The mean age of the nurses participating in the study was 31.12 ± 7.26. 93.8% of them were women, 61.6% were married, 57.2% were undergraduate graduates and the average duration of working life was 9.24±7.11. Compared with the nurses in the other groups, the older nurses, the married ones, those with distant education undergraduate degree, those with 13 years or more working experience and those working in intensive care units were more likely to expose to inappropriate sexual behaviors of the patients (p < .05). Nurses stated that 42.4% of them were exposed to the patients with inappropriate sexual behaviors. The types of inappropriate sexual behaviors that the nurses were exposed to were as follows; "verbal or written" (51.1%), "nonverbal" (37.6%), "physical" (11.3%). The approaches of the nurses towards these patients were "non-therapeutic" (68.1%). Conclusion: It was determined that almost half of the nurses encountered sexual patient behaviors and had difficulty in approaching patients who behaved sexually, and most of the nurses had non-therapeutic approaches to patients who behaved sexually. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Background: Crying, which is an expression of intense emotions that patients cannot express, is not rare in hospitals. However, there is no study in the literature explaining how nurses approach the crying patient and whether their approach is therapeutic. Objective: The aim of this study was to investigate the nurses' approaches to crying patients and whether their approaches were therapeutic. Method: The cross-sectional study was conducted with 309 nurses. The data were collected by using a Questionnaire Form. Findings: Almost all of the nurses (97.1%) reported that they encountered crying patients. According to nurses, patients cry because they suffer a lot (93.5%) and feel helplessness (86.1%). Only 19.4 % of nurses were found to be able to approach the crying patients therapeutically (not judging, taking time, showing that I am ready to help). It was determined that the nurses aged 40 and over, married and having a bachelor's degree had a therapeutic approach to the crying patient, and tehe statistical differences between the groups were significant (p<0.05) (Table 1). Conclusion: It was found that nurses had difficulty in approaching the crying patient and that most of the nurses had non -therapeutic approaches to the crying patient. Nurses should know the therapeutic value of crying and should take a therapeutic approach to the crying patient. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study evaluated the association between nurse spirituality and frequency of spiritual care among 560 nurses working at Dicle University Hospital in Turkey. The Spirituality Scale and the Nurse Spiritual Care Therapeutic Scale were administered. Results indicated that scores on the Spirituality Scale were positively correlated with frequency of provision of spiritual care (Nurse Spiritual Care Therapeutic Scale). It was found that the spirituality levels of the nurses had a positive effect (R2 = 0.245, B = 0.391, p < 0.0001) on the frequency of providing spiritual curative care. It was determined that the frequency of providing spiritual care of nurses with high spirituality level increased. No significant associations were found between Nurse Spiritual Care Therapeutic Scale means of point and gender, marital status, education level, unit work, or duration of professional experience. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]