Evaluation of operating room nurses' knowledge levels and practices on patient safety

Patient safety is an important element in the health care services system in order to prevent harm to individuals. In the relevant care system, one of the primary goals in the treatment phase of each individual is to ensure patient safety. In this context, a well-structured patient safety culture by institutions is extremely important for individuals to reach a safe health care service. Ensuring patient safety is the responsibility of both healthcare professionals and institution management. For this reason, both nurses and institution management have an important role in improving the level of knowledge about patient safety and inclusion of various applications. The aim of the present study is to evaluate the knowledge levels and practices of operating room nurses on patient safety and to examine the relationships between the relevant variables. For this purpose, 65 individuals working as nurses in the operating room unit and working at Hamidiye Etfal Hospital and Sarıyer Hamidiye Etfal Hospital were reached. 89.2% of the participants were female, 10.8% were male; 70.8% are single, 29.2% are married individuals. The data of the study were collected using the Surgical Safety Checklist, Safety Attitudes Scale (Application in the Operating Room), Employee Information Form and Volunteer Information and Consent Form. Data analysis was done using SPSS 23 package program. Mann Whitney U test, Kruskal-Wallis H test, Mann Whitney U test with Bonferroni correction for examining the differences between groups; Spearman Correlation analysis was used to examine the relationships between the variables. According to the results obtained, nurses' safety attitudes, marital status, working in the operating room with their own will, their level of resting outside of working hours, whether there is an operating room orientation program in their institution and whether they participate in this program are significant in determining the in-service training programs in the institution where they work, according to the importance of nurses' needs. levels differ. According to the results of the correlation analysis, it is seen that there is a positive and significant relationship between the hospital experiences of the nurses and their thoughts about the management, the number of night cases and the determination of stress levels. The findings of the research were discussed in the context of the literature and recommendations were made. Keywords: Operation, Operating Room Nurse, Patient Safety