Background Patients receiving hemodialysis treatment are among the risk groups during the COVID‐19 pandemic. They must cope with many factors simultaneously like anxiety about being ill, social isolation, inadequate information about protective precautions, and the need to attend regular treatment. Objectives This study was performed with the aim of determining problems experienced by individuals receiving hemodialysis treatment during the pandemic. Design This was a descriptive and cross‐sectional type study. Participants The research included 234 patients receiving chronic hemodialysis treatment. Measurements For collection of data in the research, a patient descriptive information form and COVID‐19 phobia scale (CP19‐S) scale were used. Results Patients receiving hemodialysis treatment were determined to have high levels of compliance with individual precautions required during the pandemic. Of patients, 87.6% were determined to experience concern about bringing infection from the dialysis unit to family members. The mean total points for CP19‐S were 59.80 ± 14.49. Patients who were female, had low educational level, were not employed, had heart disease in addition to kidney failure, with hemodialysis age from 6 to 8 years, who did not want to go to the dialysis center and had not received education about the pandemic (p < 0.001) were identified to have high phobia at statistically significant levels. Conclusions Changes occurring in normal life and to hemodialysis treatment during the pandemic cause concern and anxiety in many patients. In this process, providing patients with education about the pandemic and protective methods is very important.

Eleştirel düşünme, hemşirelik uygulamasını geliştirmek ve kaliteli hemşirelik bakımı sağlamak için kullanılabilecek bir beceri olarak görülmektedir. Hemşirelik eğitimi, hemşirelere hemşirelik bakımı olarak görevlerine hazırlamak amacıyla verilen teorik ve uygulamalı eğitimden oluşmaktadır. Hemşireler, yeni bilgilerin ve klinik durumların sürekli değiştiği bir ortamda güvenli, yetkin, sezgisel ve yenilikçi klinisyenler olarak çalışmaya hazır olmalıdır. Gelecekte birey, aile ve topluma daha iyi hizmet verebilecek hemşireler yetiştirebilmek için, öğrencilere eğitimleri esnasında eleştirel düşünme becerisini kazandırmak çok önemlidir. Bu nedenle hemşirelik öğrencilerinde eleştirel düşünme becerisini geliştirmek amacıyla birçok farklı strateji önerilmektedir. Bu derlemede, hemşirelik eğitimi ve uygulamalarında eleştirel düşünmenin etkin kullanımını arttırmak için kullanılan öğretim stratejileri ve boyutlarının incelenmesi amaçlanmıştır.

The term “media” used to explain the mass media provides the transmission of messages and information regarding the society. According to the researches, media has an important power in influencing the masses in terms of public interests and policies. By addressing the media as a priority, through individual or professional organizations, nurses can be effective in exposing the profession’s image in the media and policy issues affecting the profession. A more consistent approach to presenting nursing research to the public and using the media for this purpose will enable the public to perceive nursing as it is and support the use of research. In this review, basic knowledge tried to be provided by the nurses about what to do through the media and, the actions taken in the media related to the novel coronavirus disease which emerged first at the end of 2019 in Wuhan Province of China and in March 2020 in Turkey, were examined.

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