Determination of emotional intelligence levels and teamwork attitudes of nursing students: A descriptive-correlational study.

OBJECTIVE: This descriptive-correlational study was carried out to determine the relationship between emotional intelligence levels and teamwork attitudes of nursing students. METHOD: The study has a descriptive-correlational design. A total of 469 nursing students participated in this study. To collect the study data, the "Personal Information Form", "Emotional Intelligence Evaluation Scale" and "TeamSTEPPS-Teamwork Attitudes Questionnaire" were used. Descriptive statistics, correlation and regression analysis were used to analyze the data. RESULTS: The emotional intelligence levels of the nursing students were low and the level of their attitudes towards teamwork was above the average. There was a positive and significant relationship between the mean scores they obtained from the overall Emotional Intelligence Evaluation Scale and TeamSTEPPS-Teamwork Attitudes Questionnaire and their sub-scales. CONCLUSION: Students' emotional intelligence levels are low and their attitude levels towards teamwork are above average. Therefore, emphasis should be placed on increasing students' emotional intelligence and teamwork attitudes during nursing education.

Relationship between nurses' resilience and quality of professional life.

AIM: This study aimed to investigate the correlation between the resilience levels of nurses and qualit of their professional life. BACKGROUND: Nurses' resilience level can affect their professional qualityof life. A higher resilience level enables them to manage stress and overcome challanges more effectively leading to enhanced patient care and satisfaction. Coversly, lower resiliance can lead to burnout, negatievly impacting both the nurses' wellbeing and the quality of service delivered to patients. INTRODUCTION: It is crucial to understand the correlation between the professional life quality and resilience of nurses working in difficult conditions. METHODS: This correlational study was conducted between September 2021 and February 2022. A total of 276 nurses were included in the study. Data were collected using the Demographic Data Form consisting of sociodemographic characteristics, the Professional Quality-of-Life Scale, and the Resilience Scale for Adults. RESULTS: The resilience score was above average, and the professional quality of life was high. Compassion satisfaction and compassion fatigue, which are components of professional quality of life, were moderate, and the burnout level was low. A robust positive correlation was observed between resilience and the professional quality of life. The linear regression model showed that choosing the profession unwillingly, dissatisfaction with the unit in which one works, and the level of psychological resilience are independent factors of professional quality of life. CONCLUSION: According to the findings, high psychological resilience increases the quality of professional life. Resilience, choosing nursing willingly, and liking the unit in which one works are determinants of professional quality of life. IMPLICATIONS FOR NURSING POLICY: Enhancing the professional quality of life of nurses has important individual, institutional, and social consequences. Enhancing resilience has the potential to elevate the quality of professional life. Hence, it is important to develop national and international policies and models. Additionally, managers bear significant responsibilities in ensuring a positive work environment. Undoubtedly, having nurses work in units they like, feel happy in, and prefer will increase their professional quality of life and make positive contributions to patient care, the institution, and society.

Interventions to reduce nurses' burnout: A systematic review and meta-analysis.

AIM: To evaluate the effectiveness of interventions to reduce nurses' burnout. DESIGN: A systematic review and meta-analysis. METHODS: The research was carried out using the following databases: MEDLINE, CINAHL, Cochrane Library, ULAKBIM Turkish National Database, Science Direct, and Web of Science. The study selection, quality assessments, and data extractions of the included studies were carried out by the researchers independently. The PRISMA checklist was used to assure the quality and transparency of the report. The risk of bias of the included studies was evaluated using the Cochrane Collaboration tool. The meta-analysis was performed using Comprehensive Meta-Analysis (CMA) 3.0 software. RESULTS: A total of 19 studies including 1139 nurses were included in the study. Of these, only 13 were included in the meta-analysis, as six contained incomplete data. Interventions aimed at reducing burnout in nurses were mostly person-directed interventions. The meta-analysis revealed that attempts to reduce burnout had a small effect on nurses' emotional exhaustion and depersonalization, and a moderate effect on their personal accomplishment. CONCLUSIONS: Interventions are more effective at preventing the sense of personal accomplishment of nurses from decreasing. Evidence in the literature on organization-directed interventions and combined interventions to reduce burnout in nurses is limited. Person-directed interventions are effective at low and medium levels. In future studies, it will be more effective to implement combined interventions including both person-directed and organization-directed interventions to reduce the burnout of nurses.

Social network analysis: Understanding nurses' advice-seeking interactions.

AIM: This study aimed to determine advice-seeking interactions of nurses in a private hospital by using social network analysis. DESIGN: This study was designed as a cross-sectional descriptive study. METHODS: The study was conducted in a private hospital with 70 nurses. The data were collected with a social network analysis questionnaire. The social network analysis (SNA) focused on certain values such as network density, component, degree centrality, and betweenness centrality. The SNA was carried out using UCINET, and statistical analyses were performed with SPSS version 23.0. RESULTS: The network density was reported to be 0.062, and it was composed of three components. It was further noted that nurse Y1 was found to have the highest scores of degree and betweenness centrality. Chi-Square Automatic Interaction Detector (CHAID) analysis indicated that the most common variables that affected degree centrality score were education, department, and position. CONCLUSION: It was concluded that social network analysis was a useful instrument to delineate strengths and weaknesses of seeking advice relationships among nurses. IMPLICATIONS FOR NURSING AND HEALTH POLICY: Top- and middle-level nursing managers occupy a significant position in advice-seeking networks. Nursing managers with higher education degrees will absolutely improve advice-seeking networks.

The relationship between workplace incivility and turnover intention in nurses: A cross-sectional study.

AIM: The aim of this study was to examine the relationship between workplace incivility and the turnover intention in nurses. BACKGROUND: Studies assessing the association between nurses' turnover intention and workplace incivility are limited. METHODS: The research was carried out on a total of 250 nurses working in three private hospitals in Antalya, Turkey. The data were collected using a Demographic Questionnaire, the Workplace Incivility Scale and the Turnover Intention Scale. RESULTS: The mean workplace incivility scores of the nurses were determined to be 6.68 ± 7.96. The mean turnover intention scores of the nurses were 6.38 ± 3.44. A statistically significant positive relationship was found between workplace incivility scores and turnover intention scores (r = 0.632, p = 0.0001). The linear regression model showed that workplace incivility, working in the emergency or intensive care unit, and dissatisfaction with the current institution were independent factors of turnover intention. CONCLUSIONS: The results of the study demonstrated a significant relationship between workplace incivility and turnover intention in nurses. Nurses who are less exposed to workplace incivility were seen to have a lower turnover intention. IMPLICATIONS FOR NURSING MANAGEMENT: Simple measures that organisations may take to reduce workplace incivility may increase nurses' workplace satisfaction, reduce turnover intention and enable them to work more efficiently. It would be useful for nursing managers to lead initiatives in institutions to reduce workplace incivility and improve the culture of civility.

Relationships between leadership orientations and emotional intelligence in nursing students.

PURPOSE: To describe the relationship between leadership orientation and emotional intelligence levels of nursing students. METHOD: The study is a cross-sectional and descriptive correlational study. RESULTS: This study was carried out with 320 nursing students. There was a positive relationship between the mean scores for the Leadership Orientations subdimensions and the mean scores for the overall Emotional Intelligence Evaluation Scale and its subdimensions. PRACTICE IMPLICATIONS: More studies are needed to examine the relationship between students' emotional intelligence and leadership orientations.

Translation and Psychometric Testing of the Healthcare Environment Survey in Turkey.

AIM: This study aimed to translate and psychometrically test the Healthcare Environment Survey, describe the strengths and needs of job satisfaction for nurses in Turkey, and advance an international discussion across countries that used Healthcare Environment Survey. The Healthcare Environment Survey was the only instrument found that measured multiple facets of nurses' satisfaction in caring for patients. Healthcare Environment Survey has been psychometrically tested in Jamaica, Scotland, and the USA. METHOD: This study was a methodological design. A convenience sample of 400 nurses from 2 hospitals in Antalya, Turkey, was asked to complete the Healthcare Environment Survey. A total of 241 nurses (60.3%) responded to all 57 items. RESULTS: Factor analysis revealed all items loaded into 10 facets, with all factor loadings greater than 0.40, except 1 item regarding executive leadership. Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin measure of 0.91 revealed a good model fit. The Healthcare Environment Survey explained 75% of the variance in nurse job satisfaction. The Cronbach alpha coefficient for the 10 facets ranged from 0.83-0.90. A comparison of these results with the other 3 countries that used the Healthcare Environment Survey revealed that caring for patients had a high factor loading in Turkey, Scotland, and the USA but a low one in Jamaica. CONCLUSION: The Healthcare Environment Survey -Turkish form was found to be a valid and reliable tool, which could be used by nurse managers to evaluate satisfied and unsatisfied areas. It provides new opportunities for national/international benchmark, cooperation, and research with others.

The Effects of Nursing Education on Critical Thinking of Students: A Meta-Analysis.

AIM: The present study was aimed at investigating the effect of nursing education on the improvement of students' critical thinking skills in Turkey by using the meta-analysis method. METHOD: The literature screening was carried out in online databases using the keywords "nursing", "student", "critical thinking", "Turkey" in English and their Turkish equivalents "hemsirelik", "ögrenci", "elestirel düsünme", "Türkiye" respectively. Quantitative studies matching the inclusion criteria were included in the study. The number of the participants in those studies was 3792 (2183 first-year students and 1609 last-year students). For the analysis of the data, the CMA (Comprehensive Meta-Analysis Software) statistical package program was used. While the Q and I2 tests were used to test the homogeneity of the studies, the Classic Fail-Safe N test and Kendall's Tau were used to test their publication bias. Fixed and random models were used to calculate the effect size. RESULTS: The results indicated that 10 studies met the inclusion criteria, and that the studies included in the study were heterogeneous and had no publication bias. The mean effect size was 0.114 at the 95% significance level [CL=0.087-0.440]. CONCLUSION: The results of the study indicated that nursing students were not able to develop their critical thinking skills and that there is a need for implementations to develop their critical thinking skills. This study will provide guidance for nursing school administrators and educators to develop critical thinking skills of nursing students.

Nurses' perceptions of motivational factors: a case study in a Turkish university hospital.

PURPOSE: This study investigates the perceptions of nurses regarding work motivation factors. BACKGROUND: Work motivation of nurses is of utmost importance so that patients may receive high-quality and effective nursing services as well as higher levels of care satisfaction. METHOD: This descriptive study was conducted with nurses in a university hospital in Turkey. A personal information form and the motivation factors questionnaire form were used as data collection tools. Data analysis was conducted using mean, anova, t-test, Tukey test and Cronbach's alpha coefficient. RESULT: Appreciation (mean 4.76) had the highest score among all the factors. It was also found that the respondents' perceptions regarding motivation varied significantly (P < 0.05) depending on their age, professional experience and institutional experience. No differences were found in the respondents' perceptions with respect to professional position (P < 0.05). CONCLUSION: The results show that appreciation was perceived as the most effective factor by nurses. Furthermore, nurses' perception of the influence of motivation factors varied according to age, duration of professional experience and institutional experience. IMPLICATIONS FOR NURSING MANAGEMENT: Nursing managers can maximise the potential of nurses by implementing appropriate motivation strategies. When developing suitable motivation strategies, they should consider age, duration of professional experience and institutional experience and monitor recent changes. It is strongly recommended that experimental studies are conducted and significant appreciation techniques analysed.