Evalution of the relationship between operating room nurses' perceptions of workload and medical error tendency

This study, which was planned and conducted as descriptive and correlational, was conducted to evaluate the relationship between the workload perceptions of operating room nurses and their levels of proneness to medical errors. The universe of the study consisted of nurses working in the operating rooms of a private hospital in Istanbul between October 2023 and March 2024, and the sample consisted of 200 nurses who were willing/volunteered to participate in the study after obtaining the necessary permissions. The data were collected using a questionnaire form prepared by the researcher through a literature review, the Nurses' Proneness to Medical Errors Scale (HTHEÖ) and the Individual Workload Perception Scale (IPPS). The results were evaluated at a 95% confidence interval and significance was p<0.05 (two-sided). All statistical calculations were performed using SPSS software version 26 (IBM Corp., Armonk, NY, USA). Demirci, K. (2024). Evaluation of the Relationship Between Operating Room Nurses' Perceptions of Workload and Medical Error Tendency Levels. Istanbul University-Cerrahpasa Graduate Education Institute, Department of Surgical Diseases. Master's Thesis. Istanbul. This study, which was planned and conducted as descriptive and correlational, was conducted to evaluate the relationship between the workload perceptions of operating room nurses and their levels of proneness to medical errors. The universe of the study consisted of nurses working in the operating rooms of a private hospital in Istanbul between October 2023 and March 2024, and the sample consisted of 200 nurses who were willing/volunteered to participate in the study after obtaining the necessary permissions. The data were collected using a questionnaire form prepared by the researcher through a literature review, the Nurses' Proneness to Medical Errors Scale (HTHEÖ) and the Individual Workload Perception Scale (IPPS). The results were evaluated at a 95% confidence interval and significance was p<0.05 (two-sided). All statistical calculations were performed using SPSS software version 26 (IBM Corp., Armonk, NY, USA). It was determined that 95.6% (n=86) of the nurses were female, 51.1% (n=46) were married, 50% (n=45) had a bachelor's degree, their average age was 32.69±7.02 years, and their average working period was 8.45±6.38 years. In this study, it was determined that there was a positive relationship between the level of tendency to medical errors and the level of individual workload perception of the operating room nurses in general, and that as the perception of workload of the nurses increased, their tendency to medical errors decreased. It was observed that the score in the sub-dimension of medication and transfusion practices in HTHEÖ was high, and nurses with a bachelor's degree and above education had a high tendency to medical errors and a low perception of individual workload.