Faculty (Psychiatric Nursing)

 E.mail: msabri.kovanci@gmail.com

 Phone: +90 312 305 15 80 / 177

He was born in Çorum in 1994. He completed his bachelor's degree at Hacettepe University School of Nursing in 2017. He worked as a ward nurse at Fatsa State Hospital between 2017 and 2018. In 2018, he began his master's program in the Department of Psychiatric Nursing at Hacettepe University. He completed his master's degree in Psychiatric Nursing in 2020 and his doctoral degree in 2024. In 2025, he began working as an assistant professor in the Department of Psychiatric Nursing at Hacettepe University.

Selected Publications:

• Öcalan, S., Bilgin, A., Duru, H. A., & Kovancı, M. S. (2026). End-of-Life Care Preparedness Program for Senior Nursing Students in Türkiye: Effects on Attitudes and Self-Efficacy in a Randomized Controlled Trial. Nurse Education in Practice, 104717.
• Öcalan, S., & Kovancı, M. S. (2026). The Relationship Between Intrusive and Deliberate Rumination and Self‐Compassion in Cancer Patients: A Structural Equation Modeling Study. Psycho‐Oncology, 35(2), e70389.
• Kovancı, M. S. & Ocalan, S. (2026). The Effect of Emotional Intelligence on Ethical Decision‐Making Competence in Nursing Students: A Cross‐Sectional Study. Nursing & Health Sciences, 28(1), e70301.
• Kovancı, M. S. Öcalan, S., & Bilgin, A. (2025). The mediating role of health empowerment in the relationship between healthy aging and emotion regulation in older individuals. Geriatric Nursing, 65, 103481.
• Kovancı, M. S. & Atli Özbaş, A. (2025). Newly graduated nurses’ experiences of moral distress during transition process: a convergent mixed methods study. BMC nursing, 24(1), 246.