INTRODUCTION: This study was conducted to determine the innovation characteristics of nursing students and the affecting factors.
METHODS: The study was conducted using a “Data Collection Form” and “Individual Innovativeness Scale” with face to face interviews with nursing students of a Faculty of Health Sciences. The Cronbach alpha of the scale was found as 0.76. The value p<0.05 was accepted as statistically significant.
RESULTS: The mean age of the students was 20.48±1.80 years and 31.9% of were first grade students. It was found that 65.4% of the students graduated from anatolian high schools and similar schools, 70.1% of the students had nuclear family and 66.5% had middle income. Participants were found as the late majority 42.6%, laggards 34.3%, the early majority 19.8%, early adopters 2.5%, and 0.8% innovators according to their innovation characteristics. It was determined that as the students’ number of siblings, preference order of nursing and the order of birth in their family increased, their level of innovation decreased.
DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSION: It was found that most of the nursing students were late majority and laggards, and only a few of them were innovator.

INTRODUCTION: In this descriptive cross-sectional study, it was aimed to determine the nurse academicians’ professional values working at a nursing faculty.
METHODS: 89 nurse academicians (Participation rate=74.2%) participated in the study, which was conducted at a faculty of nursing in the western Turkey between January and February 2016, the whole population of which (120 nurse academicians) was attempted to be achieved. Data in the study, for which the Ethics Committee Approval and the written consent from participants were obtained, were collected with Descriptive Information Form and the Revised Nursing Professional Values Scale (NPVS-R). The lowest possible score obtainable from the scale is 26 and the highest possible score is 130. The fact that an individual obtains a high score for the scale indicates that this individual has strong professional values. The research data were analyzed with SPSS 16.0 program. The Kolmogorov-Smirnov analysis, independent t test and one-way ANOVA were used for analysis with SPSS 16.0 program.
RESULTS: It was determined that the average age of the academicians was 35.52±9.60 years, they worked for 13.38±10.65 years on average, 55.0% of them had doctoral degree, and 85.4% of them gave information about values to students. The mean total item score of NPVS-R was 109.87±1.37 and the mean total item scores of NPVS-R was 4.22±0.50. Academician nurses in the age group of 36-45 who gave information about the values to their students were found to have higher scores in NPVS-R (p<0.05). It was determined that the academicians’ education level, academic title, working status as a nurse, and the study year did not have a significant difference on the mean score of the NPVS-R (p>0.05).
DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSION: It was determined that academicians had strong professional values. It was found significant difference in perception of professional values that academicians’ characteristics of age and giving information about values to their students.

INTRODUCTION: The Model of Family Medicine (MFM), which was started to be applied with the scope of transformation in health, caused significant changes in the quality and delivery of the primary healthcare services in our country. This model affected work life of the Family Healthcare Personnels (FHP). In this study, it was aimed to investigate views of the family healthcare personnels related to the model of family medicine.
METHODS: This descriptive study was conducted of 112 FHP working in Family Health Centers affiliated to Beyoglu and Şişli Community Health Centers in Istanbul. Data were collected with a questionnaire developed by researchers. Descriptive statistics and Pearson Chi-square test were used to analyse data.
RESULTS: Of the total, 39.3% FHP stated that evaluations in performance-based salary system are not made fairly, 73.2% of them job satisfaction is decreased in MFM, and 73.2% also thought that the general name of family healthcare personnels causes loss of proffessional rights. There was a statistically significant relationship between satisfaction status of nurses working as FHP and wishing to work after their contracts end (p<0.016), facilities provided by family health center (p˂0.039), compatibility of duties with duty descriptions (p˂0.001), and satisfaction on performance-based salary (p˂0.008).
DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSION: Primary healthcare centers are the prior gateways to community. Therefore, in order to maximize the efficiency of the health professionals who play an important role in the MFM, their experinced problems should be identified and initiatives to increase job satisfaction and motivation should be applied.

INTRODUCTION: The aim of the study was to determine the effect of exercise on quality of life and physiological parameters in obese students.
METHODS: The study was pretest-posttest and quasi-experimental design. It was conducted between March-May 2012 and November 2012-January 2013. The study sample was Nursing students who were selected from 583 students by screening, were BMI≥25 kg / m2 (18 obese students). Exercise program was continued about 3 months (12 weeks), three days a week and 45 minutes (16: 00-17: 00) a day. Evaluation of the data was used by the arithmetic mean, Wilcoxon signed rank test and Spearman correlation analysis.
RESULTS: In results; after the exercise program, students' weight, plasma glucose, cholesterol, triglycerides, LDL and systolic blood pressure levels were found to be statistically significant reductions (p<0.05); but, BMI and diastolic blood pressure levels were found to be no statistically significant reductions (p>0.05). Additionally; students’ the level of activity (p=0.01) and all the subscales of quality of life was increased significantly (p=0.000).
DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSION: As a result, it has made an application for nursing students trying to gain healthy lifestyle habits.

INTRODUCTION: This descriptive study was conducted to determine mindfulness levels of nursing students.
METHODS: The study sample consisted of 322 students who attended a public university faculty of health sciences continuing education in the nursing department from March 1 to May 1, 2017 and agreed to participate in the research. The data were collected by a questionnaire from the students with the Mindful Attention Awareness Scale and a form containing sociodemographic data prepared by the researcher. Frequency, percentage, t test, chi-square and Kruskal-Wallis test were used in the analysis of the data.
RESULTS: Of the students who participated in the survey, 77,6% were female, 26,4% were 1st grade students and 86,3% were middle income. The region where 56.5% of the students live and 59.9% of them live the longest is the Aegean region. The mean age of the students was determined as 20.51±1.80 and the Mindful Attention Awareness Scale score average was 60.14±11.43. There was a statistically significant difference between average mindfulness scores of students when compared by their perceived income levels (KW=8,47, p<0,05). Students with moderate income were found to have higher mindfulness scores. There was a statistically significant difference between mindfulness scores of students when grouped by which region they lived the longest (KW=14,20, p<0,05). Students who spent most of their lives in the Black Sea region found to have higher level of mindfulness.
DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSION: It has been determined that nursing students are slightly above the level of mindful awareness. While there were no significant differences in mindfulness level with respect to age, sex, class and place of birth of the students; There were significant differences in the perceived income level and the region they lived the longest.

Addison’s Disease is a chronic disease that occurs with destruction of surrenal glands. Adrenal diseases are critical in the sense that they may cause serious maternal morbidity and mortality during pregnancy. Diagnosis of Addison's disease is difficult in pregnancy because its symptoms are very much similar to physiological signs of pregnancy; which may retard the diagnosis. Besides, detection of the disease with diagnosis is crucial in fetal and maternal risks. Fetuses of pregnant women with Addison’s Disease may face the risk of adrenal insufficiency, preterm birth, abortion, low birth weight and intrauterine growth retardation. Addison’s Disease crisis may occur due to stressful situations, progression of Addison’s Disease, infectious diseases, excessive vomiting and acute hypotension. Therefore; increasing treatment doses as well as midwifery and nursing care that will prevent these conditions should not be ignored in order to prevent development of Addison’s Disease. As a result; although addison disease in pregnancy is not widespread; it may lead to critical problems due to its high risk and therefore this review was done in order to guide midwives and nurses while giving care to the pregnant women.
Key Words: Addison’s disease; pregnancy; midwifery; nursing.

Control over nursing practices, one of the significant components of a professional work environment, is defined as affecting the employment and work environment at the service level of the institution, perceived freedom for organizing and evaluating nursing practices, the ability to make independent and interdependent decisions about patient care and accountability for the results of such decisions. Therefore, nurses are expected to have control over their healthcare service practices in a professional, safe and cost-effective way. This study scrutinizes the concept of control over nursing practices, which is frequently confused with other concepts in the literature, reviewing the previous studies and making suggestions to improve this control.

Tonsil cancer, one of the head and neck cancers is getting more prevalent although it has different prevalence rates among the world population. The disease can mostly be diagnosed with local metastasis as early symptomps of the disease are often asymptomatic. Diagnosis of tonsil cancer at early stage is important for treatment and enhancement of the patient’s life quality. The 62 year old male patient is a T4N3 end-stage patient and has applied to a training and research hospital with ache complaint. Gordon's "Functional Health Patterns " model was used in order to plan nursing attempts.

Menstruation is about 30-40 years of all women’s lives whether they are disabled or not. During this period make the incorrect practices has a negative impact on the health of women. Therefore, healthy management of menstruation period is rather important in terms of women's health. The lack of appropriate materials to manage this period and inadequate knowledge of menstruation of women have negative effect on reproductive health. The negative attitudes and preconceptions of society against both disability and menstruation also make menstruation management difficult. Visually impaired, can be difficult to manage in a healthy way of menstruation. Visually impaired women's related to how manage the period of menstruation didn't exist much research in the literatüre. Knowing the problems that visually impaired people are experiencing in providing menstrual hygiene is necessary to be able to produce solutions. This review with the aim to reveal the current situation of visually impaired women in menstrual hygiene management has been written.

This descriptive study aims to determine the use of education, provided based on the health promotion model developed in Turkey in nursing studies. The data were collected from the databases of Google Academic, Turkish Medline, the National Thesis Center of the Council of Higher Education and PubMed. Studies with articles were mentioned as thesis studies. 16 doctoral thesis studies were conducted, based on the health promotion model, between 2010 and 2016, which were applied in Turkey and meet the criteria for inclusion in the study. As a result, education provided based on health promotion model was only used in doctoral theses our country. The development of the individual's health behavior is the unique task of the nurse. Health promotion model evaluates the individual's perception of resume and the individual leads the way in providing holistic care. It is important in nursing planning and practice that know the importance to the health of the individual. Because of health promotion model is guide for a holistic view of nurses and educational role. For this reason, it is recommended that education provided based on health promotion model be more frequently used in nursing studies.