Nurses encounter various risks in their working areas during the pregnancy period. The greatest risks that might be encountered by pregnant nurses in their working areas involve teratogens such as; infection agents, drugs and radiation. These risks threat both mother’s and baby’s health. Additionally, pregnant nurses also encounter risks that are caused by the fact that the profession of nursing has an exorbitant work load and they work in shifts. These risks threat the health of both the pregnant nurse and the unborn fetus. There are various solution suggestions to prevent the risks in the working area and it is very important for each department to determine their own risks in order to protect the health of workers. Thus, this precautions against them.

Infertility is an important public health problem, concerning one of every six couples. Different regions, countries and cultures of the world in research infertility common sexual problems are reveal. Infertile person / couples, sexual dysfunction may be a preexisting condition or receiving a diagnosis of infertility can occur then. when the relations disorders or sexual problems results at infertile couples health care personnel’s interventions and supports is very important. The role of infertility counselor in the prevention of sexual dysfunction, both medical treatment issues and couples communication issues include. Communication issues, sex education and sexual issues for couples that includes support programs. In this article, infertility, sexual dysfunction in infertil couples, prevention of sexual dysfunction and role of infertility counsellor are discussed according to the literature.

OBJECTIVE: Breast feeding success is affected by a number of factors. Breast feeding self-efficacy was thought to be among the important factors that might affect the breast feeding success.
The study aims to investigate the relation between breast feeding self-efficacy and breast feeding successes of mothers during the postpartum period.

METHODS: It is a descriptive study. It was conducted in 3 state hospitals and one university hospital in İzmir. A total of 220 women and their babies, who met the sample criteria, were involved in the study between January 2011-December 2012. The sample inclusion criteria consisted of: women who were older than 18 and literate, had full-term and healthy birth, spoke Turkish, breastfed and had no chronic disease that would prevent the breast feeding and were volunteer to participate in the study. Data collection form regarding the defining characteristics, Breastfeeding Self-Efficacy Short Form Scale and breastfeeding success
was measured with the LATCH Assessment Tool.

RESULTS: Age average of mothers is 26.7. 44.5% of women are primary school graduates and 85.5% are housewives. Regarding the delivery method, 37.2% had vaginal and 62.8% had caesarean delivery. 59.1% of women have the experience of breast feeding. While the score average of postpartum breast feeding self-efficacy of women was 59, the score average of LATCH was 8.4. As a result of the correlation analysis, a statistically significant and positively strong relation was determined between the score averages of postpartum breast feeding self-efficacy of mothers and score averages of LATCH breast feeding success (r: 0.504, p: 0.000).
CONCLUSION: It was determined that the Breast Feeding Self-Efficacy is an important factor affecting the breast feeding success. It is important for breast feeding nurses/midwives to strengthen the breast feeding self-efficacy perceptions of mothers in order to increase the breastfeeding success.

OBJECTIVE: Aim of the study is to determine the efficiency of Safe Motherhood Training Program which was developed based on public services model in Diyarbakir center where inefficient number of Health Service Providers and limited ratio of safe motherhood program users exist.
METHODS: The project which was realized between March 2007 - April 2008 in cooperation with Diyarbakır Metropolitan Municipality Center for Women's Studies and Application level was carried out in six neighborhood with a population of 37 thousand, low socio-economic and allowing immigrants. In the study, 14 leading women selected from the region, were made to have competency for "peer education" and target group-specific training material was developed. Pregnants / puerperants were visited and training / consultancy services were provided and they were recorded and directed for the use of health services. Assessment and evaluation was performed with a comparative study between intervention group which the services were provided (n = 217) and the control group with similar terms and characteristics which the services were not provided (n = 246). In the quasi-experimental study, the datas including knowledge and behavior about safe motherhood were obtained by one to one interviews with questionnaire method in both groups and percentage distribution were evaluated by chi-square.
RESULTS: A total of 6020 home in three neighborhood of the study were visited and 1119 pregnants/ puerperants were reached. Training / consultancy services were provided for this group with visits, and they were referred to a health institution. In the evaluation of the study; a statistically significant difference was detected in favor of the intervention group in terms of the behavior of health care such as going to health care controls (p <0.0001), administrating tetanus vaccine during pregnancy (p <0.0001), giving birth in hospital, going to health care controls in the postpartum period and starting breastfeed early, compared to the control group which was similar in terms of socio-demographic and obstetric characteristics.
CONCLUSION: It has been determined that, education / counseling services performing with community-based service model in the field of safe motherhood was effective in gaining the right desired health behavior for pregnants / puerperants, 405 women had begun to receive services from health care institution for the first time.

Generally, poverty is defined as the lack of opportunities for people to meet their basic needs. Poverty affects all segments of society, especially women and children. Women are more affected by poverty because they have unequal access to rights and opportunities in all aspects of social life such as education, health care, employment and participation in decision-making. The increase in the poverty of women and the term poverty becoming synonymous with women has brought the concept of ‘feminization of poverty’. Since the problem is increasing day by day and affects more and more women, poverty has become a global problem more than a problem of countries. The effects of poverty are seen in every period of women’s life with all its negativity. In early ages, poverty causes problems for girls such as eating disorders, malnutrition, inadequate immunization and lack of opportunities of health care and education. In the elderly, it causes osteoporosis, staying alone, lack of access to health care due to social insecurity. In the literature, it is reported that the poverty has adverse effects on women’s health care services. In this context, the role of nurses is evident in management of the poverty, which is a factor affecting health. While addressing poverty, Canadian Nurses Association (CNA) emphasizes the importance of nurse to struggle for poverty and American Nurses Association (ANA) highlighted that in order to make equal access to health care, a nurse should be professional, and well-attended in socio-political activities. It is important for nursing profession to know effects of poverty on women’s health and being supportive. Also, a nurse should take a place in public policies, civil society to fight against poverty.

OBJECTIVE: Objective: The study was cross-sectional and carried out in order to determine satisfaction of patients from nursing service at gynecology and obstetrics unit.
METHODS: Methods: The study was carried out at Gynecology and Obstetrics Service of a university hospital between 15 November-31 December 2012. The population of study was composed of patients staying at hospital during these dates. 319 patients were included within the sample. Data were collected with personal characteristics form and Newcastle Satisfaction Scale from Nursing Care. In the statistical analysis of data, t-test and variance analysis were used.
RESULTS: Results: Satisfaction point average of patients from nursing care was found to be 72.52±16.63. When the items of scale were analyzed, it was determined that the highest score was for the parameters of “nurses being aware of requirements about care and treatment”, the lowest score was for the parameter of “nurses’ way of comforting relatives and friends”. It was determined that there is no statistical difference between satisfaction level from nursing care according to sociodemographic features of patients and their was of hospitalization (p>0,05).
CONCLUSION: Conclusion: It was determined that nursing care satisfaction of patients about services at gynecology and obstetrics was at good level.

OBJECTIVE: This study was planned to investigate the intensive surgical units nurses’ job satisfaction and the affecting factors as a descriptive and correlational type.
METHODS: The sample and the population of the research consisted of a total of 267 nurses including 52 Surgical intensive care nurses, 83 Surgical Operation Room nurses and 132 service nurses working in Surgical Clinics in three hospitals ( 1 University Hospital, 2 State Hospitals) in a province in Mediterranean Region.The entire population was included in the research without applying sampling method.The data was collected through “Detemination of Promotional Characteristics Form” and “Job Satisfaction Scale” which were developed by the researchers. Data were analysed using percentage values, Chi-square test and multiple regression.
RESULTS: Approximate score of intensive care nurses’ job satisfaction was found 167,59±28,16 and job satisfaction of intensive surgical unit nurses was determined as ‘low’.The Factors effecting Job Satisfaction were determined as weekly working hours, the number of seizures in the past month, number of patients to whom day care is given.A significant inequality was not confirmed in the Job satisfaction average level evaluated according to age, education background, working period at the current hospital and number of patients to whom night care is given.It was determined that while Job satisfaction levels of intensive care unit nurses are higher than surgical clinic nurses, job satisfaction levels of clinic nurses are also higher than surgical operating room nurses.
CONCLUSION: Finding out that Job Satisfaction Scale standard grades of nurses working in the surgery units of all three hospitals are quiet low and nurses in the surgery rooms has the lowest grade average brought us that it is necessary to initiate managerial and institutional attempts immediately aiming to increase satisfaction of all nurses and that some proposals be developed with the hope to contribute in developing some measures.

Most patients are lack of reflex of protection between life and death, and they keep living by means of variable supporting devices in intensive care units. This medical condition brings about many invasive and noninvasive practices as well. Interventional procedures are applied heavily, with high rates of morbidity and mortality in intensive care units, for receive quality care of patients receiving treatment and care in accordance with individualized duration of hospital stay, nurses have an important responsibility. At this stage, intensive care nurse responsible for take part the effective and critical in a multidisciplinary team. In this review, in intensive care units where we think that nursing care is critical, the negative effects on patients of physical conditions of the unit and of treatment process, and nursing care to cope with them was discussed in the literature.