Evaluation of the problems encountered during the use of operating room nurse with their information on suture material: A case of a training and research hospital in İstanbul

This research was conducted with a prospective, cross-sectional and descriptive design. The study was conducted in the operating room of Başakşehir Çam and Sakura City Hospital in Istanbul in 2022, after obtaining the permission of the ethics committee and the institution. The population of the research consists of 213 operating room nurses working in the operating room of the Ministry of Health Başakşehir Çam and Sakura City Hospital. Inclusion criteria; have at least 1 year of work experience and be willing to participate in the study. In this direction, the sample of the study consists of 150 operating room nurses who meet the criteria. As data collection tools, the data of the study will be collected with a structured questionnaire prepared in line with the literature. The structured questionnaire will be sent to three academicians who are experts in the field of surgical nursing in terms of clarity, intelligibility, internal consistency reliability and content validity. The research data were obtained by face-to-face interview method from the nurses who agreed to participate in the study after obtaining written and verbal consent from the operating room nurses with informed consent form approval and explaining the purpose of the study. No scale was used in the study. The data obtained within the scope of the research were evaluated with the SPSS for Windows (Version 20.0, Statistical Package for Social Sciences) program. The distribution of the data was examined according to the Skewness / Kurtosis (Kurtosis / Skewness) values and it was found to be in accordance with the normal distribution (1). The internal consistency of the knowledge score and its sub-dimensions was measured with the Cronbach's Alpha Reliability Coefficient. Descriptive statistics of continuous variables in the study are shown with mean, standard deviation values, and descriptive statistics of categorical variables are shown with frequency and percentage. Pearson correlation was used for continuous variables, Independent Sample T test was used for the relationship between paired groups, and One Way ANOVA tests were used for the relationship between groups of three or more. Benforroni correction was made in the One Way ANOVA analysis. Comparisons with a p value below 0.05 in statistical analyzes were considered statistically significant.