Geriatric Nursing Training Program for Nursing Students

This research will be conducted using a parallel randomized controlled trial design to investigate the effects of a nursing education program grounded in Travelbe's Human-to-Human Relationship theory on willingness to work with elderly individuals, empathy levels, and communication skills. The sample group will consist of third-year nursing students at a state university (intervention: 24; control: 24). The Willingness to Work with Elderly Individuals Scale, the Kiersma-Chen Empathy Scale, and the Communication Skills Scale will be used to collect data. The intervention group will receive a six-session nursing education program based on Travelbe's Human-to-Human Relationship theory. A repeated-measures ANOVA will be used to compare the mean scores obtained by the groups on the scales. In addition, independent-samples t-tests will be used for the pre-test and post-test comparisons within groups, and Cohen's d and eta-squared will be used to calculate the effect sizes. The normality distribution of the data will be examined. Parametric tests (One-sample t-test, ANOVA) will be applied to data that show normal distribution, and nonparametric tests (Mann-Whitney U test, Kruskal-Wallis test, Wilcoxon test, Friedman test) will be applied to data that do not show normal distribution.

Inclusion Criteria: * Being a 3rd-year nursing student, * Agreeing to participate in the research, * Having taken the Geriatric Health Nursing (elective) course Exclusion Criteria: * Having any impediment to participation in extracurricular activities (physical/mental/psychological health problems, transportation or time constraints, etc.). Removal criteria from the research: * Not attending more than 30% of the educational program, * Withdrawing from the research voluntarily, * Incomplete/non-completion of data collection instruments.