She is the member of Research Group on Methodology, Methods, Models and Outcomes of Health and Social Sciences (M3O) and the professor (Serra Húnter Program) at the Faculty of Health Science and Welfare of the University of Vic-Central University of Catalonia. She is giving lectures on Qualitative Research Methodology and Surgical Nursing and participating as a lecturer in certain laboratory teaching activities of nursing students.
She earned her nursing degree in 2006 and master degree in 2008, both at Haliç University (Turkey). She obtained her Ph.D. degree in Surgical Nursing at Istanbul University (Turkey) in 2014. Her Ph.D. thesis was about the effect of mirror therapy on the management of phantom limb pain which brought a professional nursing care perspective into this subject. Her main research topics are pain management nursing, pain management in children, phantom limb pain, underestimation of pain by health providers, and the effect of positive affirmations on symptom management.
She has academic teaching and investigation experience since 2007. She took a part as the board member of the European Nursing Student Association (ENSA) between the period of 2013-2014. On the other hand, she is currently collaborating as a reviewer in 5 scientific journals.
By 2019, she has 16 published articles and 2 accepted for publication in peer-reviewed journals, 48 studies presented in 16 international congresses. She was awarded 6 times in five national and one international nursing congresses with the studies she presented.
ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Meltem_Yildirim