The purpose of this research; The aim of this study is to measure the effect of the Persons With Disability Friendly Nursing Education Program developed based on the Story Theory on the empathic tendencies of senior nursing students towards persons with disability and their perceptions of competence of senior nursing students to care for persons with disability. In the research, a multi-stage evaluation design from mixed method research will be used. Focus group interviews will be conducted before and after the program in the qualitative dimension of the research, while the randomized controlled double-blind pretest-posttest control group experimental design will be used in the quantitative dimension. The data of the research will be collected in the Department of Nursing of the Faculty of Health Sciences of Ondokuz Mayis University in Samsun, Turkey. The program will be applied to nursing senior students in this department. Before the training program, focus group discussions will be held with nursing students, and the content of the training program will be created. The pre-test data of the study will be collected using an introductory information form questioning sociodemographic characteristics, Efficacy Perceptions Form for Caring for Persons with Disabilities, Empathic Tendency Scale and Achievement Test. A 2-week  Persons With Disability Friendly Nursing Education Program will be applied to the experimental group. After the program, focus group discussions will be held with the students in the experimental group, and the program will be evaluated. Post-tests will be applied to the experimental and control groups 3 months after the program. Descriptive statistics, paired t-test, chi-square, Mann-Whitney U, Wilcoxon analysis will be used in the analysis of the data. Content analysis will be used in qualitative data analysis.
The purpose of this research; The aim of this study is to measure the effect of the Persons With Disability Friendly Nursing Education Program developed based on the Story Theory on the empathic tendencies of senior nursing students towards persons with disability and their perceptions of competence of senior nursing students to care for persons with disability. In the research, a multi-stage evaluation design from mixed method research will be used. Focus group interviews will be conducted before and after the program in the qualitative dimension of the research, while the randomized controlled double-blind pretest-posttest control group experimental design will be used in the quantitative dimension. The data of the research will be collected in the Department of Nursing of the Faculty of Health Sciences of Ondokuz Mayis University in Samsun, Turkey.