This study was conducted to assess the feelings and experiences of students in elderly care department in the first and last days of their clinical practices. Material and Methodology: The universe of the survey consisted of 28 freshmen students attending the elderly care department of a health services vocational school in Rize province in the academic year 2018-2019. There was no sample selection, and the survey was conducted with 20 students who voluntarily agreed to participate. The method of content analysis was used in data analysis. Findings: On the basis of documents prepared by students following their first clinical practice, 4 main themes were identified as "fear, excitementhappiness, sadness and anxiety". On the other hand, documents by the same students on their experiences with clinical practice during their senior year the 4 main themes were "change in perspective, enhanced information, self-confidence and positive communication." Conclusion: The study concludes that students experience positive feelings after their clinical practices and consequently theoretical information along with richer experience enhance students' selfconfidence. The suggestion is to further support students in their clinical practices.

This study was done in order to explore delegation levels among nurse managers. The population of this descriptive study was done with 22 nurses who accepted to participate in the study out of 50 nurse managers. The data were collected through a survey form that addressed nurses’ demographic characteristics and Scale for Nurse Managers Delegation Level. The data were analysed with percentages, Kruskall–Wallis and Mann–Whitney U. General delegation level of nurse managers was found to be 2.81 ± 0.57. However, such sub-dimensions of the scale as gender, success in time-management, working hours, submission to others’ requests in name of the clinical unit and being a guide for nursing processes at the units affected average sub-dimension scores of delegation among nurse managers and these findings were statistically significant.Keywords: Hospital, nurse, delegation

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Giriş ve amaç: Bu çalışma, kemoterapi alan kanser hastalarının yaşadıkları semptomları ve tamamlayıcı terapi kullanımlarını belirlemek amacıyla yapıldı. Gereç ve Yöntem: Araştırmanın örneklemini bir onkoloji merkezine ayaktan kemoterapi tedavisi almak için başvuran 150 hasta oluşturmuştur. Veriler “Hasta Bilgi Formu”, “Tamamlayıcı ve Alternatif Tıp Yaklaşımları Ölçeği” ve “Nightingale Semptom Değerlendirme Ölçeği (NSDÖ)” ile yüz yüze görüşme tekniği ile toplandı. Bulgular ve Sonuç: Hastaların NSDÖ toplam puanlarında cinsiyet, meslek ve kemoterapi kür sayısı açısından, TAT ölçek toplam puan karşılaştırılmasında medeni durum, eğitim durumu, evde destek görme durumu, kemoterapi kür sayısı, hastalığı hakkında bilgi alma, kemoterapinin yan etkilerini bilme ve tamamlayıcı terapi kullanma açısından anlamlı farklılık bulundu (p

This study was planned in a descriptive and cross-sectional design to explore the sleep hygiene and happiness levels of university students studying in health-related departments and associated factors. The sample of the study comprised of 362 registered students at the Vocational School of Health Services between 1 and 30 January 2019, in the fall semester of 2019-2020. The "Descriptive Information Form" including socio-demographic characteristics and habits, the "Sleep Hygiene Index" and the "Oxford Happiness Questionnaire" were used to collect data. SPSS 21.0 program was used in the statistical analysis of the data. Arithmetic mean, standard deviation, minimum, maximum and percentage parameters were used in the distribution of the data. In this study, data were distributed normally, so parametric tests were used for statistical analysis. Student t-test was used for two independent variables and the One Way Anova test was used for more than two independent variables. Pearson correlation analysis was performed to examine the relationships between parameters. The study revealed that 80.9% of the students in the study were female, 62.2% lived in a state dormitory, 78.7% did not smoke, 60.5% slept an average of 6-8 hours a day, and 91.2% had no chronic disease. The mean Sleep Hygiene Index scores of smokers, men, those who studied in the anesthesia program, those stayed in the state dormitory, those who drunk caffeinated beverages after 18:00, those who slept for 8 hours or more, and those who woke up unrefreshed were found to be significantly higher (P < 0.05). It was also observed that those who woke up refreshed had a significantly higher level of happiness (P < 0.05).