The Society's View of Nursing in Turkey

Abstract

This study was conducted in order to ensure the educational transformation of a school of health at a state university, within the scope of the Bologna Process. A review of the literature suggests that dependent functions of nursing are studied more often than its independent functions, but independent functions of nursing are not properly understood by society. The population consisted of 458 people in Düzce. They were chosen using a stratified sampling method. The researchers developed a questionnaire form to use as the data collection tool. The data were evaluated by means of descriptive statistics. People living in Düzce region believed that nurses primarily perform care activities, that they act as assistants to doctors. Nurses who perform practical tasks were given positive ratings for their interpersonal communication skills, but the participants also expected nursing school to improve educational structuring to help nursing students acquire communication skills. Nursing education programs must be restructured to improve nursing students' communication skills. It is the first step for structuring education program to know what is nursing image within society. In light of this approach nursing program can be restructured to local tendencies.

Social Image of Nursing. An Integrative Review about a Yet Unknown Profession

“…Selected papers mostly correspond to studies conducted in Spain (n = 7) [ 1 , 20 , 37 , 38 , 39 , 40 , 41 ], but studies conducted in Argentina (n = 2) [ 42 , 43 ], Iran (n = 2) [ 44 , 45 ], Egypt (n = 2) [ 46 , 47 ] were included and also from the United Kingdom (n = 1) [ 9 ], Venezuela (n = 1) [ 48 ], Turkey (n = 1) [ 49 ] and Australia (n = 1) [ 7 ]. The vast majority of the articles (n = 10) showed the results of quantitative descriptive studies through surveys of different population groups (professionals, nursing students and general population) [ 7 , 20 , 37 , 38 , 43 , 44 , 46 , 47 , 48 , 49 ] and some of them (n = 5) were qualitative studies through key informants (professionals, nursing students and/or patients) [ 1 , 9 , 38 , 42 , 45 ]. A literature review [ 40 ] and a mixed study that carried out a review of the literature combining a qualitative analysis of the press were included as well [ 41 ].…”

“…In this way, the value attributed to the training of the Nursing professionals derives more from their interpersonal skills than from their technical or critical thinking skills. In other words, greater importance is attributed to the fact that characteristics such as kindness and closeness are present in the Nursing personnel than to nurses having undergone good training at the scientific level [ 1 , 37 , 49 ].…”

Contemporary public perceptions of nursing: a systematic review and narrative synthesis of the international research evidence

“…, Keçeci et al . ), beautiful young and sexy, defying danger to find romance (Brideson et al . ), sexually deviant (Neilson & McNally , Stanley ) and male nurses characterised as effeminate or aberrant homosexuals (Stanley ).…”

Birinci basamak sağlık hizmetlerinden yararlananların hemşirelik imajına ilişkin algıları ve etkileyen faktörler

“…Uluslararası Sağlık Bilimleri ve Yönetim Kongresi'nde sözlü bildiri olarak sunulmuştur. 2 Sorumlu Yazar: Beykent Üniversitesi, Sağlık Bilimleri Fakültesi, Hemşirelik Bölümü (Dr. Öğr. Üyesi), ORCID: 0000-0002-3253-0597, e-posta: tugbamat@beykent.edu.tr 3 İstanbul Üniversitesi-Cerrahpaşa, Florence Nightingale Hemşirelik Fakültesi, Hemşirelikte Yönetim AD, (Prof. Dr.), ORCID: 0000-0001-5790-5992, e-posta: ubaykal@yahoo.com GİRİŞ Hemşirelik, Uluslararası Hemşirelik Konseyi (ICN) tarafından; bireyin, ailenin ve toplumun sağlığını bütüncül bir yaklaşımla ele alarak, korumayı ve geliştirmeyi hedefleyen, hastalık halinde iyileştirme ve rehabilite etmeyi sağlayan bir meslek olarak tanımlamaktadır (1).…”

“…Üyesi), ORCID: 0000-0002-3253-0597, e-posta: tugbamat@beykent.edu.tr 3 İstanbul Üniversitesi-Cerrahpaşa, Florence Nightingale Hemşirelik Fakültesi, Hemşirelikte Yönetim AD, (Prof. Dr.), ORCID: 0000-0001-5790-5992, e-posta: ubaykal@yahoo.com GİRİŞ Hemşirelik, Uluslararası Hemşirelik Konseyi (ICN) tarafından; bireyin, ailenin ve toplumun sağlığını bütüncül bir yaklaşımla ele alarak, korumayı ve geliştirmeyi hedefleyen, hastalık halinde iyileştirme ve rehabilite etmeyi sağlayan bir meslek olarak tanımlamaktadır (1). Profesyonel anlamda hemşireliğin topluma sağlık hizmeti sunmakla yükümlü olan, toplumda sağlığın korunmasını özendiren, sağlık politikalarına katılan ve toplumsal eğitime katkı sağlayan roller üstlenmesi beklenmektedir (2).…”