Evaluation of the impact of the operating room nurses' care and operating room environment on the patients

Hospitals are institutions that serve in the medical and surgical fields in order to protect and continue a healthy life of the individuals. Operating rooms, which are surgical field service units, show different effects on the patient's physiological, psychological and social status. Therefore, questionnaire with socio-demographic questions using Quality Perioperative Nursing Care Scale were applied to 150 patients over 18 years of age who underwent a surgical procedure in an university hospital in Istanbul European side in order to evaluate the impact of the operating room environment and the operating room nursing care. According to this objective, overall average score given by the patients were found 103.49 ± 18.65 out of 130 points and approximately 80% of patients evaluated operating room nursing care and operating room environment positively. Despite high positivity rate, it suggests that there is inadequate communication with patients because lowest scores in the scale are given to information and support. Evaluation of the operating room and nursing care services were found higher according to gender and occupation; female patients, housewives and patients who received lacal anesthesia have been observed to be more satisfied with nursing care administered in the operating room and with operating room environment. We can say that patients evaluate operating room environment and nursing care positively and patient's expactations are met.