The Examination of Time Management Skills of Healthcare Professions

Effective and at the same time efficient time management is a key area of management at which healthcare professionals must be proficient. Today, having the ability to manage and use the time effectively and efficiently is highly important. Taking into consideration that healthcare service is a process and the effectiveness of this process mostly depends on good use of time, it can be said that healthcare personnel assuming the responsibility for health care services should be proficient in time management. The aim of this study was to examine the adequacy of time management skills of healthcare personnel working in public institutions providing health care services. All healthcare personnel working in Tosya State Hospital and who agreed to participate in the study were included in the sample group. Personal Information Form and Time Management Inventory (TMI) were applied to participants to collect data. Four main theme were viewed, Socio-Demographic Characteristics of the Study Group, Difference between the Work Experience of Participants and Time Management Inventory Scores, Difference between the Work Experience of Participants and Time Traps Sub-Dimension Scores, Difference between the Age of Participants and Time Traps Sub-Dimension Scores. Women obtained better scores in methods of effective time management than men, personnel working only during the day received higher scores than personnel working in shifts, mean scores increased with experience in the field, healthcare personnel used time more efficiently with increasing age, and married participants obtained higher scores than single participants. Keywords: Time management, Effective use of time, Time traps, Healthcare personne

Recent Advances in Health Biotechnology During Pandemic

The outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), which emerged in 2019, cut the epoch that will make profound fluctuates in the history of the world in social, economic, and scientific fields. Urgent needs in public health have brought with them innovative approaches, including diagnosis, prevention, and treatment. To exceed the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, various scientific authorities in the world have procreated advances in real time polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) based diagnostic tests, rapid diagnostic kits, the development of vaccines for immunization, and the purposing pharmaceuticals for treatment. Diagnosis, treatment, and immunization approaches put for- ward by scientific communities are cross-fed from the accrued knowledge of multidisciplinary sciences in health biotechnology. So much so that the pandemic, urgently prioritized in the world, is not only viral infections but also has been the pulsion in the development of novel approaches in many fields such as diagnosis, treatment, translational medicine, virology, mi- crobiology, immunology, functional nano- and bio-materials, bioinformatics, molecular biol- ogy, genetics, tissue engineering, biomedical devices, and artificial intelligence technologies. In this review, the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the development of various scientific areas of health biotechnology are discussed

The Sariçiçek Howardite Fall in Turkey: Source Crater of HED Meteorites on Vesta and İmpact Risk of Vestoids

The Sariçiçek howardite meteorite shower consisting of 343 documented stones occurred on 2 September 2015 in Turkey and is the first documented howardite fall. Cosmogenic isotopes show that Sariçiçek experienced a complex cosmic ray exposure history, exposed during ~12–14 Ma in a regolith near the surface of a parent asteroid, and that an ~1 m sized meteoroid was launched by an impact 22 ± 2 Ma ago to Earth (as did one third of all HED meteorites). SIMS dating of zircon and baddeleyite yielded 4550.4 ± 2.5 Ma and 4553 ± 8.8 Ma crystallization ages for the basaltic magma clasts. The apatite U-Pb age of 4525 ± 17 Ma, K-Ar age of ~3.9 Ga, and the U,Th-He ages of 1.8 ± 0.7 and 2.6 ± 0.3 Ga are interpreted to represent thermal metamorphic and impact-related resetting ages, respectively. Petrographic, geochemical and O-, Cr- and Tiisotopic studies confirm that Sariçiçek belongs to the normal clan of HED meteorites. Petrographic observations and analysis of organic material indicate a small portion of carbonaceous chondrite material in the Sariçiçek regolith and organic contamination of the meteorite after a few days on soil. Video observations of the fall show an atmospheric entry at 17.3 ± 0.8 kms-1 from NW, fragmentations at 37, 33, 31 and 27 km altitude, and provide a pre-atmospheric orbit that is the first dynamical link between the normal HED meteorite clan and the inner Main Belt. Spectral data indicate the similarity of Sariçiçek with the Vesta asteroid family (V-class) spectra, a group of asteroids stretching to delivery resonances, which includes (4) Vesta. Dynamical modeling of meteoroid delivery to Earth shows that the complete disruption of a ~1 km sized Vesta family asteroid or a ~10 km sized impact crater on Vesta is required to provide sufficient meteoroids ≤4 m in size to account for the influx of meteorites from this HED clan. The 16.7 km diameter Antonia impact crater on Vesta was formed on terrain of the same age as given by the 4He retention age of Sariçiçek. Lunar scaling for crater production to crater counts of its ejecta blanket show it was formed ~22 Ma ago

The Relation Between Restles Legs Syndrome and Sleep Quality After Kidney Transplantation

Araştırma, hastaya huzursuz bacak sendromu (HBS) semptomları sorgulanarak HBS sıklığını saptamak ve hastaların uyku kalitesi ile huzursuz bacak sendromunun ilişkisini belirlemek amacıyla tanımlayıcı olarak yapılmıştır. Bu araştırma Antalya il merkezinde bulunan Akdeniz Üniversitesi Hastanesi Organ Nakli Eğitim, Araştırma ve Uygulama Merkezinde tedavi gören böbrek nakli yapılmış 229 hasta üzerinde yapılmıştır. Araştırmada veri toplama aracı olarak hastaların demografik özelliklerini içeren 22 soruluk form, 4 sorudan oluşan huzursuz bacak sendromu anketi ve pittsburg uyku kalitesi anketi kullanılmıştır. Araştırmada anket sorularına ilişkin elde edilen veriler , ‘Mann Whitney-U’ ve ‘ki-kare’ analizleri kullanılarak değerlendirilmiştir. Araştırma sonuçlarına göre hastaların 79’unda (%34,5) huzursuz bacak sendromu, 144 (%62.8) hastada uyku kalitesi skoru düşük olarak saptanmıştır. Böbrek transplantasyonu olan hastalardaki huzursuz bacak sendromu sıklığı %34,5 olup, uyku kalitelerinin yüksek oranda bozuk olduğu anlaşılmıştır. Huzursuz bacak sendromlu hastalarda uyku kalitesi daha da kötüleşmektedir. Bu nedenle nakil hastalarında HBS sorgulaması daha sık yapılmalı ve uyku kalitesini düzeltmeye yönelik çalışmalar yapılmalıdır.The objective of this study was to assess frequency of Restless Legs Syndrome and in the relationship between sleep quality and RLS who had renal transplantation and two hundred tventy nine patient treat at Akdeniz University Hospital Transplantation Education, Research and Practice Center in Antalya. Were included in the study . In this study; a questionnaire including 22 question related to patients’ sociodemographic charecteristics, RLS questionnaire with 4 questions and Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Questionnaire were used for collection of data. The data obtoined were evaluated statisticolly with Mann Whitney-U and chi-square analysis. In this study, 79 patiens (%34,5) had RLS, 144 patiens (%62.8) had low sleep quality. It was also found that sleep quality was lower in patiens with RLS. So that, questioning of RLS frequently must be done and sleep quality intended for improving studies should be done for patients with a kidney transplant. We suggest that in patiens with renal transplantation RLS evaluation must be performed and intervention is required for improvement of sleep quality

The Relation Between Restles Legs Syndrome and Sleep Quality After Kidney Transplantation

Araştırma, hastaya huzursuz bacak sendromu (HBS) semptomları sorgulanarak HBS sıklığını saptamak ve hastaların uyku kalitesi ile huzursuz bacak sendromunun ilişkisini belirlemek amacıyla tanımlayıcı olarak yapılmıştır. Bu araştırma Antalya il merkezinde bulunan Akdeniz Üniversitesi Hastanesi Organ Nakli Eğitim, Araştırma ve Uygulama Merkezinde tedavi gören böbrek nakli yapılmış 229 hasta üzerinde yapılmıştır. Araştırmada veri toplama aracı olarak hastaların demografik özelliklerini içeren 22 soruluk form, 4 sorudan oluşan huzursuz bacak sendromu anketi ve pittsburg uyku kalitesi anketi kullanılmıştır. Araştırmada anket sorularına ilişkin elde edilen veriler , ‘Mann Whitney-U’ ve ‘ki-kare’ analizleri kullanılarak değerlendirilmiştir. Araştırma sonuçlarına göre hastaların 79’unda (%34,5) huzursuz bacak sendromu, 144 (%62.8) hastada uyku kalitesi skoru düşük olarak saptanmıştır. Böbrek transplantasyonu olan hastalardaki huzursuz bacak sendromu sıklığı %34,5 olup, uyku kalitelerinin yüksek oranda bozuk olduğu anlaşılmıştır. Huzursuz bacak sendromlu hastalarda uyku kalitesi daha da kötüleşmektedir. Bu nedenle nakil hastalarında HBS sorgulaması daha sık yapılmalı ve uyku kalitesini düzeltmeye yönelik çalışmalar yapılmalıdır.The objective of this study was to assess frequency of Restless Legs Syndrome and in the relationship between sleep quality and RLS who had renal transplantation and two hundred tventy nine patient treat at Akdeniz University Hospital Transplantation Education, Research and Practice Center in Antalya. Were included in the study . In this study; a questionnaire including 22 question related to patients’ sociodemographic charecteristics, RLS questionnaire with 4 questions and Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Questionnaire were used for collection of data. The data obtoined were evaluated statisticolly with Mann Whitney-U and chi-square analysis. In this study, 79 patiens (%34,5) had RLS, 144 patiens (%62.8) had low sleep quality. It was also found that sleep quality was lower in patiens with RLS. So that, questioning of RLS frequently must be done and sleep quality intended for improving studies should be done for patients with a kidney transplant. We suggest that in patiens with renal transplantation RLS evaluation must be performed and intervention is required for improvement of sleep quality

ÖRGÜTSEL BAĞLILIK VE TÜKENMİSLİK DÜZEYİ: İSTANBUL İLİ VAKIF ÜNİVERSİTELERİNDE GÖREV YAPAN AKADEMİSYENLERE YÖNELİK BİR ALAN ARASTIRMASI

Arastırmada örgütsel bağlılık ve tükenmislik kavramlarının önemi kuramsal ve kavramsal analizlerle vurgulanmaya çalısılmıs, vakıf üniversitelerinde görev yapan akademisyenlerin örgütsel bağlılık ve tükenmislik düzeyleri alt boyutları ile tespit edilmis, iki bağımlı değiskeni olusturan alt boyutlar arasında iliskinin olup olmadığı, bağımlı değiskenlerin demografik değiskenlere göre farklılasıp farklılasmadığı ortaya konulmustur. Arastırma kapsamında Türkiye'deki vakıf üniversitelerinin en yoğun bölge olduğu Marmara Bölgesindeki İstanbul ili arastırmanın evrenini olusturmustur. Arastırmada evrenin tümüne ulasılmasında bir takım engeller olduğu için örneklem alınmıstır. Bu bağlamda; 2008-2009 akademik yılı İstanbul ilinde bulunan vakıf üniversitelerinde görev yapan 377 akademisyene Kisisel Bilgiler, Allen Meyer Örgütsel Bağlılık Ölçeği ve Maslach Tükenmislik Ölçeği olmak üzere üç bölüm, kırkyedi sorudan olusan anket uygulanmıstır. Elde edilen verilerin güvenirlikleri, frekansları, oranları ve ortalamaları hesaplanmıs, veriler t-testi, tek yönlü varyans analizi testi ile analiz edilmis, farklılasmaların hangi gruplar arasında olduğu ise Tukey PostHoc ile belirlenmistir. Bağımlı değiskenleri olusturan alt boyutlar arasındaki iliskiler, Pearson Momentler Çarpımı Korelasyon Tekniği ile belirlenmistir. Arastırmada anlamlılık düzeyi 0,05 olarak kabul edilmistir. Arastırma sonucunda; örgütsel bağlılık düzeyleri ile tükenmislik düzeyleri arasında ters yönlü anlamlı bir iliski saptanmıstır. Akademisyenlerin örgütsel bağlılıklarının orta düzeyde, tükenmisliklerinin düsük düzeyde olduğu belirlenmistir. Örgütsel bağlılık düzeyinin; cinsiyet, medeni durum, yas, kıdem yılı, hizmet süresi, unvan ve ücret değiskenlerine göre farklılastığı saptanırken, haftada girilen ders saat sayısına göre farklılasmadığı saptanmıstır. Tükenmislik düzeyinin ise; cinsiyet, medeni durum, yas, kıdem yılı, unvan, haftada girilen ders saat sayısı değiskenlerine göre farklılastığı saptanırken, üniversitedeki hizmet süresi ile ücrete göre farklılasmadığı saptanmıstır. Ancak ücret ile tükenmislik alt boyutlarından duygusal tükenmislik boyutu arasında, ters yönlü bir iliskinin olduğu belirlenmistir.In this research, the significance of organizatinal commitment and burnout concepts were emphasized through theoretical and conceptional analyses, and by determining organizational commitment and burnout levels (with their sub levels) of academicians at foundation universities, to what extent dependent variables differ and according to which demographical features, and whether there is a relation between sub levels composing two different dependent variables, were revealed. Within the scope of the research, the province of İstanbul in Marmara Region, being the densest region in terms of foundation universities, is the area of the research. Due to some obstacles, it had not been possible to reach all areas of the research; therefore, samples are given. In this context, a questionnaire as Personal Information, Allen-Meyer Organizational Commitment Scale and Maslach Burnout Inventory, composed of forty seven questions and three sections, was applied to 377 academicians at foundation universities in İstanbul in 2008-2009 academic year. Reliability, frequences, proportion and averages of data obtained by questionnaires were assessed, analyzed by t-test and One Way Anova, and in which groups differences exist was determined by Tukey PostHoc. The relations between sub levels, composing dependent variables, were determined through Pearson Product Moment Correlation Technique. The meaningfulness level of research was accepted as 0,05. At the end of reseach, it is determined that there exists inverse, meaningful relation between organizational commitment levels and burnout levels. It is found out that organizational commitment level of academicians is medium and their burnout level is low. It is determined that while organizational commitment level differs according to gender, marital status, age, years in occupation, years in institution, academic title and salary it does not differ as to work load per week. It is determined that while burnout level differs according to gender, marital status, age, years in occupation, academic title and work load per week, it does not differ as to years in institution and salary. However, it is determined that an inverse relation exists between salary and emotional exhaustion level