Research Assistant (Psyhiatric Nursing)

 E.mail: sinem.ocalan@hacettepe.edu.tr

 Phone: +90312 305 15 80 / 117

She was born in 1994 in Ankara. She completed her undergraduate education at Hacettepe University Faculty of Nursing in 2017 and started her graduate program at Hacettepe University Health Sciences Institute Psychiatric Nursing Department in the same year. Between 2017-2018, she worked as an internal diseases intensive care nurse at Gazi University Hospital for five months. In 2018, she started to work as a research assistant at Hacettepe University Faculty of Nursing, Department of Psychiatric Nursing. In the same year, she began to receive training from the Cognitive-Behavioral Psychotherapies Association, and her training is continuing. She completed her master's degree in psychiatric nursing in 2019 and started her doctorate education in the same year.

Selected Publications:

• Öcalan, S., Kovancı, M. S., & Hiçdurmaz, D. (2023). ‘It is not a mannequin disease’: A lived experience narrative of living with bulimia nervosa. Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing.
• Öcalan, S., Kovanci, M. S., Uslu-Sahan, F., & Ozdemir, L. (2023). First death experiences of newly graduated nurses: A qualitative phenomenological study. Death studies, 1-9.
• Öcalan, S., & Üzar-Özçetin, Y. S. (2023). “I am in a Fight with My Brain”: A Qualitative Study on Cancer-Related Ruminations of Individuals with Cancer. In Seminars in Oncology Nursing (p. 151450). WB Saunders.
• Öcalan, S., & Üzar-Özçetin, Y. S. (2023). “Cancer Never Goes Out of Your Mind Even for a Single Second”. Cancer-Related Ruminations From the Perspectives of Cancer Survivors. In Seminars in Oncology Nursing (p. 151427). WB Saunders.
• Üzar‐Özçetin, Y. S., & Öcalan, S. (2022). Covid‐19‐related ruminations: A qualitative study based on the perspectives of the cancer survivors. Nursing & Health Sciences, 24(4), 882-891.