Effect of working conditions on psychological resilience of nurses who are working in operating room of a university hospital

This study was carried out as a descriptive study to determine the effects of the working environment and conditions on operating room nurses' psychological resilience. The data of the study were obtained by full counting method from operating room nurses working at Cerrahpasa Medical Faculty Hospital between november 2020 and june 2021 (n=108). The research data were collected by using the "Information Form" which is designed in line with literature and includes questions about socio-demographic, working environment and conditions of nurses that thought to affect psychological wellbeing and "Connor-Davidson Psychological resilience.Scale" to determine the psychological wellbeing levels of nurses. SPSS 15.0 for Windows program was used in statistical evaluation of the data. When data were normally distributed, student t test was used to determine whether there are any statistically significant differences between the means of two independent groups and ANOVA test is used if there was more than two independent groups. If data was not normally distributed, Mann Whitney U test is applied to compare two groups and Kruskal Wallis test is chosen when there was more than two groups. In subgroup analysis of more than two groups, Mann Whitney U test a nonparametric tests was applied and interpreted by using bonferroni correction. Gender, age, family type, marital status, educational status, year of work in the profession, year of working in the operating room, cause and duty, weekly working hours and shape, the number of rest time between the cases, the number of daily cases in the operating room, the risks exposed in the working environment of nurses was examined and they were compared with Connor-Davidson Psychological Resilience scale and subscales. According to the results of our research; gender (p=0.018; p<0.05), marital status (p=0.049; p<0.05), year of work in the profession (p=0.027, p=0.026; p<0.05), reason for working in the operating room (p=0.047; p<0.05) and Connor-Davidson Psychological Resilience.were found to have a statistically significant. In our study, when we look at the relationship of CD-RISC-25 Scale and Subscale Score Averages with the socio-demographic characteristics and working conditions of the participants; Cd-RISC-25 scale total score was found to have positively significant relationship with the working time in the profession and working hours in the operating room. Exposure to surgical smoke was positively correlated to perseverance and personal competence, spiritual tendencies, Connor-Davidson Psychological Resilience.Scale and exposure to chemotherapy drugs was negatively related to tolerance to adverse events test and body secretion splashes during surgery was positively correlated with spiritual tendency score in terms of statistically (p=0.008, p=0.003, p=0.013, p=0.014, p=0.013; p<0.05). In our study, psychological resilience.in operating room nurses was found to be moderate (66±9±13.6).