scholarly journals Examining the views of operating room nurses and physicians on the relationship between professional values and professional communication

BMC Nursing ◽  
2022 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sedigheh Yeganeh ◽  
Camellia Torabizadeh ◽  
Tayebeh Bahmani ◽  
Zahra Molazem ◽  
Hamed Yeganeh Doust ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Operating Room ◽  
Operating Rooms ◽  
Public Hospitals ◽  
Professional Communication ◽  
Professional Values ◽  
Academic Education ◽  
Operating Room Personnel ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Operating Room Nurses ◽  
Nurses And Physicians

Abstract Purpose Professional communication and professional values are two basic concepts in operating rooms and should be studied more closely in view of the nature of work and the high circulation of patients in operating rooms. Methods The present work is a descriptive-analytic study with a cross-sectional design. The sample was 603 operating room physicians and personnel selected from the public hospitals of Shiraz. The data collection instruments were the 41-item professional communication questionnaire and the 26-item professional values scale. Results The results showed that the operating room nurses and physicians perceived the status of professional communication and professional values to be satisfactory. As for professional communication, the participants’ perception of the domains of mutual respect and trust (p ≤ 0.001), teamwork (p ≤ 0.001), ethical competence (p ≤ 0.017), and workplace conflicts (p ≤ 0.001) was significant. As for professional values, only the dimension of care (p ≤ 0.016) was perceived to be significant. Moreover, a significant positive relationship was found to exist between professional communication and professional values (p ≤ 0.001). Conclusion Considering the significance of the concept of professional communication and its connection with professional values, it is recommended that operating room personnel and physicians receive systematic education about professional communication and the harms of destructive attitudes as part of their academic education and afterwards.

scholarly journals Examining the Views of Operating Room Nurses and Physicians on the Relationship between Professional Values and Professional Communication

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sedigheh yeganeh ◽  
Camellia Torabizadeh ◽  
Tayebeh Bahmani ◽  
Zahra molazem ◽  
Hamed yeganeh Doust ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Operating Room ◽  
Operating Rooms ◽  
Public Hospitals ◽  
Professional Communication ◽  
Professional Values ◽  
Academic Education ◽  
Operating Room Personnel ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Operating Room Nurses ◽  
The Status

Abstract Purpose: Professional communication and professional values are two basic concepts in operating rooms and should be studied more closely in view of the nature of work, the high circulation of patients in operating rooms. Methods: The present work is a descriptive-analytic study with a cross-sectional design. The sample was 603 operating room doctors and personnel selected from the public hospitals of Shiraz. The data collection instruments were the 41-item professional communication questionnaire and the 26-item professional values scale.Result: Results shows the operating room nurses and doctors were found to perceive the status of professional communication and professional values to be satisfactory. About professional communications, the participants’ perception of the domains of mutual respect and trust (p≤0.001), teamwork (p≤0.001), ethical competence (p≤0.017), and workplace conflicts (p≤0.001) was significant. About professional values, only the dimension of care (p≤0.016) was perceived to be significant. Moreover, a significant positive relationship was found to exist between professional communication and professional values (p≤0.001). conclusion: Considering the significance of the concept of professional communication and its connection with professional values, it is recommended that operating room personnel and doctors receive systematic education about professional communication and the harms of destructive attitudes as part of their academic education and afterwards.

Operating room nurses’ perception of professional values

2018 ◽  
Vol 26 (6) ◽  
pp. 1765-1776
Author(s):  
Camellia Torabizadeh ◽  
Fatemeh Darari ◽  
Shahrzad Yektatalab
Keyword(s):  
Operating Room ◽  
Large Body ◽  
Nurse Anesthetists ◽  
Professional Values ◽  
P Value ◽  
University Hospitals ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Operating Room Nurses ◽  
Nursing Professional

Background and significance of research: Nurses’ awareness of professional values and how those values affect their behaviors is an integral part of nursing care. There is a large body of research on nursing professional values, however, a careful survey of the available literature did not yield any studies investigating the status of professional values in operating rooms. Objective: This study aims to investigate the perception of operating room nurses of university hospitals toward professional values. Research plan: In this cross-sectional study, data were collected using Schank and Weis’s Nurses Professional Values Scale–Revised. The collected data were analyzed in SPSS version 16. Participants and settings: The 513 participants of the study consisted of operating room nurses and nurse anesthetists from six university hospitals. Ethical considerations: This study has been approved by the ethics committee of the university. Findings: The mean total professional values score of the operating room staff was found to be 100.84 ± 15.685, which indicates that the participants had a positive perception toward observance of nursing professional values in practice. The results showed that the participants considered the domains of justice and activism as, respectively, the most and the least important. The operating room staff’s overall professional values scores were not found to correlate significantly with their ages, professional experience, university majors, or attendance at ethics workshops. However, a significant difference was found between the professional values scores of the female and male staff. The professional values scores of the operating room nurses and the nurse anesthetists were not significantly different (p value = 0.494). Conclusion: Operating room staff’s awareness of professional values is essential to providing care to patients based on professional principles. Accordingly, there is need for programs to raise operating room nurses’ awareness of their professional duties and improve their professional performance.

scholarly journals Use of the surgical safety checklist in the operating room: Operating room nurses’ perspectives

2019 ◽  
Vol 35 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Oznur Gurlek Kisacik ◽  
Yeliz Cigerci
Keyword(s):  
Operating Room ◽  
Operating Rooms ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
University Hospital ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Team Collaboration ◽  
Surgical Safety Checklist ◽  
Surgical Safety ◽  
Creative Commons ◽  
Operating Room Nurses

Objective: To determine the opinions of operating room nurses towards the Surgical Safety ChecklistTR (SSCTR) and to determine applications for using SSCTR in operating rooms. Methods: This descriptive and cross-sectional study was conducted with 102 nurses working in the operating rooms of a state hospital and a university hospital in the Afyonkarahisar province. Descriptive statistics method were used for data analysis. Results: It was found that all operating room nurses knew the SSCTR and that they had a positive opinion regarding the necessity of the SSCTR. However, most of the participants stated that the SSCTR was not applied effectively in the operating room. Conclusion: The results obtained from the study show that changes focusing on the development of a culture of patient safety (PS) and team collaboration in operating rooms must be made in order to apply SSCTR consistently and properly. doi: https://doi.org/10.12669/pjms.35.3.29 How to cite this:Kisacik OG, Cigerci Y. Use of the surgical safety checklist in the operating room: Operating room nurses’ perspectives. Pak J Med Sci. 2019;35(3):---------. doi: https://doi.org/10.12669/pjms.35.3.29 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Association between genotoxic properties of inhalation anesthetics and oxidative stress biomarkers

2020 ◽  
Vol 36 (6) ◽  
pp. 454-466
Author(s):  
Masoud Neghab ◽  
Fatemeh Kargar-Shouroki ◽  
Hossein Mozdarani ◽  
Saeed Yousefinejad ◽  
Hamzeh Alipour ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Oxidative Stress ◽  
Dna Damage ◽  
Operating Room ◽  
Antioxidant Status ◽  
Venous Blood ◽  
Exposed Group ◽  
Oxidative Stress Biomarkers ◽  
Operating Room Personnel ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Inhalation Anesthetics

Exposure to inhalation anesthetics (IAs) has been associated with DNA damage as reflected in the increased frequency of micronuclei (MN) and chromosomal aberrations (CAs). The present study was undertaken to ascertain whether there was any correlation between increased MN and CA and the extent of oxidative stress as well as the antioxidant status of a group of operating room personnel exposed to a mixture of IAs, including nitrous oxide, isoflurane, and sevoflurane. In this cross-sectional study, 60 operating room personnel (exposed group) in whom the frequencies of MN and CA had already been shown to be significantly higher than those of a referent group, as well as 60 unexposed nurses, were studied. Venous blood samples were taken from all participants, and malondialdehyde (MDA) levels as an index of oxidative stress (OS) and the activity of superoxide dismutase (SOD) and levels of total antioxidant capacity (TAC) as indices of antioxidant status were measured. The level of TAC (1.76 ± 0.59 mM vs. 2.13 ± 0.64 mM, p = 0.001) and the activity of SOD (11.22 ± 5.11 U/ml vs. 13.36 ± 4.12 U/ml, p = 0.01) were significantly lower, while the mean value of MDA was significantly higher (2.46 ± 0.66 µM vs. 2.19 ± 0.68 µM, p = 0.03) in the exposed group than in the nonexposed group. After adjusting for potential confounders, there were statistically significant associations between exposure to IAs, gender, SOD, and TAC with MN frequency and between exposure to IAs and SOD with numbers of CA. The findings of the present study indicated that exposure to IAs was associated with OS, and this, in turn, may be causally linked with DNA damage.

scholarly journals Description of healthcare professionals’ attitudes on patient safety in the Tunisian operating rooms

2020 ◽  
Vol 30 (Supplement_5) ◽  
Author(s):  
M A Tlili ◽  
H Sayeh ◽  
W Aouicha ◽  
M Souki ◽  
E Taghouti ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Patient Safety ◽  
Human Factors ◽  
Operating Room ◽  
Healthcare Professionals ◽  
Participation Rate ◽  
Operating Rooms ◽  
Teaching Hospitals ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Surgical Safety ◽  
Work Units

Abstract Background Currently, ensuring surgical safety remain a worldwide challenge. The description of operating room professionals' attitudes toward patient safety in their work units helps to identify strengths and weaknesses in term of patient safety, allowing a clearer vision of the safety aspects that require special attention. This study aimed to describe healthcare professionals' attitudes on patient safety in the Tunisian operating rooms. Methods This is a cross-sectional descriptive study spread over a 6-month period (October-April 2018). It was conducted among healthcare professionals working in the operating rooms of the two teaching hospitals of Sousse (Tunisia). The measuring instrument used is the Operating Room Management Attitudes Questionnaire (ORMAQ), which consists of 60 items spread over 8 dimensions. The latter has been subjected to a transcultural validation process inspired from the Vallerand method. Data entry and analysis was done by the Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS.20) software. Results A total of 303 professionals participated in the study (participation rate= 76.13%). The most developed dimension was teamwork and the least developed was “Procedural errors/ compliance”. Items' results show that 94.8% of professionals confirmed that seniors should encourage medical and paramedical staff to ask questions, 53.5% of professionals stated that personal problems can adversely affect their performance and 87.5% agreed that operating rooms' team members share responsibilities for prioritizing activities in high workload situations. In addition, 50.9% of participants reported that the managers don't listen to staff or care about their concerns. Conclusions Operating rooms professionals' attitudes toward patient safety in their work units reflect an alarming situation regarding the quality of healthcare provided to patients. These results should be taken into consideration to guide future intervention on quality management improvement. Key messages Considering human factors is essential to improve safety in operating rooms and has an important role in reducing the occurrence of adverse events in these settings. It is important to study the underlying attitudes that determine the human factors for a better understanding and resolution of patient safety problems.

scholarly journals Pengaruh beban kerja terhadap stress perawat kamar operasi di RSUD Prof. Dr. W.Z. Johanes Kupang

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
SKp Sabina Gero
Keyword(s):  
Operating Room ◽  
Social Stress ◽  
Work Load ◽  
Physical Endurance ◽  
Socialization Process ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Load Factors ◽  
Operating Room Nurses ◽  
Cross Sectional Design ◽  
B Test

Nurses get stress by various factors of the workload. workload of nurses in the operating room is influenced by factors such as long experience, strength and physical endurance, skills profesional attitude and knoledge. this study to determinate the effect of workload factors to stress on the operating room nurses in prof. Dr. W.Z. Johanes Kupang hospital. This study used cross - sectional design of the 36 samples that worked as a nurse in the operating room. The results were analyzed by using Kendall's Tau - b Test to examined the influence of workload factors to the operating room nurse stress. The result showed that have significant effect the physicalstress on the operating room nurse are long experience (p=0,041) and skills (0,029). The results showed factors that have a significant effect to the psycological stress is a long experience factor (p=0,023) and the effect of workload on social stress are profesional attitude (0,047) and knowledge (0,047). The conclusion of this study (in the year 2013) that the work load factors of long experience has more influence on the phisical and psychological stress. This research advice to avoid stress, operating room nurses is expected to follow the training or seminar about operating room to enhance the skills of operating rooms, self-train to remain calm and not panic in coping of critical patient and well-read and following the socialization process of existing SOPs in operating room. Keywords : workload, stress, nurse in operation room

scholarly journals Evaluation of Nurses Competency about Surgical Hand Scrubbing

2020 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
UZMA KHURSHEED ◽  
MUHAMMAD HUSSAIN ◽  
SYED AMIR GILANI
Keyword(s):  
Sample Size ◽  
Operating Room ◽  
Operative Procedure ◽  
Tertiary Care ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Face Mask ◽  
Operating Rooms ◽  
Care Hospital ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Nail Polish

Objective:  Hands play a significant role in organism transmission. Poor hand hygiene practices in health care settings lead to nosocomial infection. Aseptic practice is the cornerstone of current surgery, thus rigid adherence to prescribed sterile techniques in the operating room is essential.The objective of this study was to evaluate nurses’ competencies regarding surgical hand scrubbing. Material and Methods: Cross sectional observational design was used. The study was conducted in operating rooms in a tertiary care hospital, Lahore, Pakistan.This setting contains total seven operating rooms with 250 registered nurses. Sample size calculated through Slovin’s formula. Sample size was 154. Convenient sampling technique was used. An adopted checklist was used for observing the nurses’ practices of hand scrubbing. Data was analyzed in Statistical Software of Social Sciences (SPSS) version 25. Results:  Majority of nurses (72.7%) were between 21-30 years age group. Only 38.3% participants wore a face mask and surgical cap correctly and 61.7% did not wear correctly. Majority participants, 76% had short nails.All participants (100%) removed nail polish, artificial nails, and jewelry before scrubbing. Majority of participants applied a proper amount of Povidone iodine. Conclusion:  Operational hand scrub is very vital component of operative procedure. Results of this study showed inadequate practices of nurses in the operating room, which was overall 77%. There is a need to improve nurses’ practices so, periodically audit, manager supervision and feedback, workshops should be organized.

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