EVIDENCE-BASED NURSING CARE AMONG SURGICAL NURSES

AKİF BULUT

Status

Begins enrollment this month

Conditions

Nurse's Role

Treatments

Other: Measuring evidence-based nursing knowledge and practice levels using a scale

Study type

Observational

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT07370558

2025-9/6

Details and patient eligibility

About

Background: There is a limited number of studies in Turkey that jointly evaluate the evidence-based practice levels of nurses working in surgical units, the barriers they encounter in practice, and the facilitating factors that support practice. In particular, understanding the extent to which evidence-based nursing practice beliefs predict evidence-based care practice behaviors is important for designing in-house training programs, creating clinical guidelines, and developing in-service mentoring systems.

Purpose: This research was conducted to reveal the levels of evidence-based nursing practice among nurses working in surgical units, identify barriers to implementation, and define factors that facilitate implementation. It is anticipated that the findings will guide clinical managers, education planners, and policy developers in creating evidence-based improvement strategies.

Methodology: The research is a descriptive-cross-sectional study. The population consists of nurses working in the Surgical Clinics at Uludağ University Faculty of Medicine Hospital in Bursa, Turkey (N:350). The sample calculation for the study was performed using the known population sample method. The minimum number of individuals required in the sample was calculated using the Raosoft sample calculation tool, yielding a sample size (n) of 184 when a 5% margin of error and a 95% confidence interval were applied.

Enrollment

184 estimated patients

Sex

All

Ages

18+ years old

Volunteers

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Working as a Clinical Nurse (in surgical areas) at Uludağ University Faculty of Medicine Hospital, Ministry of Health, Republic of Turkey,
Agreeing to participate in the study as a volunteer,
Not having any visual, auditory, or psychological problems that would prevent them from completing the questionnaire and scales,
Being a graduate of nursing school.

Exclusion criteria

Not working as a nurse in the Clinical Department (surgical fields) at Uludağ University Faculty of Medicine Hospital, Ministry of Health of the Republic of Turkey,
Not agreeing to participate in the research as a volunteer,
Having any visual, auditory, or psychological problems that would prevent them from completing the questionnaire and scales,
Not being a graduate of nursing school.