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- MakaleAçık Erişim2025As if I don't belong here. First-Year Experiences of International Nursing Students at University - A Qualitative Study
Tuncer, Gulsum Zekiye; Tuncer, Metin
Background: The rapid adaptation of international nursing students to university life enables them to actively continue their education without disruption in the following years. Identifying the challenges faced by these students, who are future nursing professionals, is essential fortheir adaptation and professional development. Aim: This study aimed to explore the perspectives of international nursing students regarding their first-year experiences at university. Methods: This study employed a descriptive qualitative research design. The Consolidated Criteria for Reporting Qualitative Research (COREQ) was used for reporting. The sample consisted of 13 international nursing students enrolled in the Faculty of Nursing at a university. Data were collected through face-to-face, individual, in-depth interviews using semi-structured interview questions. Content analysis was used to analyze the data. Results: The mean age of the nursing students was 23.3 years. Among the participants, seven were women, 11 had been residing in Turkiye for approximately one year, 12 were from Iran, and one was from Iraq. Three key themes emerged in this study: Facilitators of Adaptation, Challenges, and Coping. The students identified several facilitators of adaptation, including similarities between the Turkish economy and culture and their home countries' economies and cultures, proficiency in the Turkish language, studying at a nursing school aligned with their career goals, and receiving social support from their relatives. However, they also faced challenges such as language barriers, cultural differences, discrimination, social isolation, homesickness, and academic and clinical difficulties. Conclusion: International nursing students may encounter language barriers, cultural differences, and education-specific challenges during their first year of nursing school. In this context, developing support mechanisms to guide these students in their academic and social lives will facilitate their ability to cope with these difficulties.
- MakaleAçık Erişim2019Determination of the Effects of Alucra Forest Planning Unit's Population Dynamics on Land Use Changes
Çakir, Gunay; Kaya, Latif Gurkan; Yücedag, Cengiz; Bayram, Sitki
Aim of study: This study is done to monitor temporal land use/land cover changes in a typical mountain watershed covering an area of 135441.0 ha in North Eastern of Turkey based on rural demographic dynamics and forest management plans belonging to the years 1987 and 2013 coupled by GIS analyses. It also investigates changes in the shape of land use class (LUC) over the period. Material and Methods: The changes occurring time wise and positional on the base of the local LUC was examined by benefiting from the forest management plans from 1987 to 2013. Moreover, the change of LUC around these areas has been examined with the 1000 m zones thrown around the settlement areas and correlated with the fast decrease of the population recent years. Demographic dynamics (increase or decrease) affect the usage of forest lands, as well. Main results: While there was an increase in the productive forest lands (pure coniferous and deciduous, and mixed forest) between 1987 and 2013. In the same periods there was a decrease in agricultural and sandy areas. The increase of patches in the productive forest lands mostly resulted from afforestation works conducted in the unproductive forest lands, and forestry maintenance activities. Another reason for this increase of forest patches is why people have immigrated to urban areas in the last years. Research Highlights: It can be said that one of the most important causes in the rise of the forest resources in the Alucra Forest Planning Units (FPU) is the time wise changes of social structure. Furthermore, the forestry activities in the study between 1987 and 2013 are also the other significant factor in this increase of forest resources.