In the currently rapidly changing health care environment, ongoing
professional development is increasingly important. There is no clear,
precise definition of professional development. The situation with
regard to nursing professional development is further complicated by
a number of factors. Research must be undertaken to establish the
education, training and development needs of nurses working within
a variety of contexts with the ultimate aim of enhancing care provision
within these areas. The promotion of quality nursing care includes
valuing lifelong learning and engaging in continuing education as a
means of maintaining and increasing knowledge and skills.

Wound care is one of the important responsibilty of nursing. The
variety of wound care products increased with understanding of
importance of moisture in terms of wound healing, scientific data and
technological development about wound healing. Nurse must take
into consideration related with; patient wound type, wound
characteristics, healing stage of wound and needs of wound related to
healing stage while choose a wound dressing for patient. In this rewiev
the topic is about the principle of wound dessing choosing, the most
common wound dressing type and their specialities.

Because the abdominal cavity contains many of the body’s vital organs,
the abdominal examination provides direct and indirect information
about the functioning of the gastrointestinal and the genitourinary
systems. This article includes that history taking related to the abdomen
and some clues about the interpretation of the subjective data; using
the inspection, auscultation, percussion and palpation techniques for
the abdominal examination, and the evaluation of the objective data.

For diabetic patients, diabetic foot ulcer is the most important
reason for staying in the hospital for a long time. The risk of low
extremities amputation in diabetics is 15-40 times more than nondiabetic
population. Protective approach and treatment of diabetic
foot ulcer decrease amputation rates and morbidity aproximately
50% and are also cost-effective. Diabetic foot management includes
regulation blood glucose level, using apropriate shoes, foot and
nail care, regular examination of foot and patient education on
diabetic foot.

OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study was to evaluate situation of
parents of children with leukemia informed by the health professionals
with illnes, treatment and care.
METHODS: The sample in the study consisted of 180 parents of children
with leukemia that were hospitalized at the Pediatric Hemotology and
Oncology Unit (n=90) and treated at the Pediatric Hemotology and
Oncology Polyclinic (n=90) of a University Hospital over the period
2004-2005. Data for the study was collected with a questionnaire
prepared by the researchers. Percentages and chi-square were used as
a statistical method of analysis.
RESULTS: The study indicated that most of parents were mothers of
children with leukemia, between the ages 35-40 (32%), graduated
from primary school (31%), knowing patient’s illness diagnosis (92%),
learning this diagnosis from physican (60%), not knowing everything
about this illness (66%), being satisfaction from physicans approach
(%94) and nurses approach (%95). The results also did not indicate
statistically a significant between level of knowing sufficiently everything
about the illness and factors such as situtaion of treatment at the
polyclinic and hospitilization at the unit, level understanding of the
diagnosis. Who learned the best the diagnosis?, parents accuse
themselves with their child’s illness, situtaion need of psychiatric
support after learning the illness affection of illness generally on relation
between husband and wife (p>0.05). There was statistically a significant
between level of knowing sufficiently everything about the illness and
because of the illness, situation of alteration on relation between
parents and the other children (p<0.05).
CONCLUSION: It has been recommended in conclusion that, level
information of patient’s parents with their child’s illness was only
degree of the best explaination of the diagnosis, and physicans and
nurses didn’t give sufficiently information which is level receiving of
parents’ needs.