Julide Gulizar Yildirim

Izmir Katip Celebi University, Turkey

Title: Innovative Technologies in Nursing Practice

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Biography

Julide is currently employed as an Associate Prof. Dr. at the Department of Public Health Nursing in Izmir Katip Celebi University, Turkey. In 2014, she studied at Flinders University, Australia in the area of chronic disease self-management and tele-health. In 2005, she was the first Erasmus exchanging student from Ege University Faculty of Nursing to study for a bachelor's degree at KATHO in Belgium for 6 months. She received a "Faculty Development Programme" scholarship from the Turkey State Planning Organization for PhD in 2008. 

She is also interested in health informatics and the use of technology to facilitate care, such as e-health counselling and artificial intelligence. And she intends to focus on an overarching principle of improving evidence-based research on adherence to chronic disease self-management by applying and utilizing new technologies and care models to prevent medication errors, and support self-management and behaviors at home using motivational interviewing methods. She has good knowledge basic and advanced methods of statistics. She is also interested in school health nursing. She is researcher, research project manager, trainer, nurse educator and consultant in nursing and research in health care project evaluator, writer, editor, and reviewer. 

Abstract

Background and aim: Nurses play a crucial role in fostering behavioral changes, reducing modifiable risk factors, and promoting a healthy lifestyle within the sustainable global development goals. National and international cooperation protocols develop strategies to prevent chronic diseases. Recently, information-based applications have been widely used in nursing education, care, and research. Nurse-led interventions, utilizing various models, have significantly improved patient outcomes, particularly in chronic disease self-management. The aim of this study is to assess the evidence-based nurse-led interventions nursing care, research and education.

Methods: The scoping review followed Arksey and O’Malley’s framework and Joanna Briggs Institute's three-step search strategy (participants, content, and context). A comprehensive search was conducted in PubMed and Web of Science, covering studies up to January 2024 and May 2025. Using JBI principles, randomized controlled trials with nurse-led interventions were included. Findings were reported according to Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses Extension for Scoping Reviews guidelines.

Results: In total, 22 studies were eligible for the final charting and synthesis. The analysis identified nurse-led interventions involving mobile applications, mostly for cardiovascular diseases. Nurses primarily play nine roles in self-management of diseases: coach, advisor, manager, educator, practice facilitator, coordinator, collaborator, organizer, and supervisor.

Conclusion: Nurse-led technological interventions effectively change behavior and improve self-management. M-health, tele-health applications, virtual clinics, telephone counselling, coaching, and motivational interviewing, are particularly effective. Studies show that patients using these approaches can manage their diseases, follow up on their own, and experience increased motivation, satisfaction, and quality of life.