Opinions of Operating Room Nurses Regarding Patient and Staff Safety in Operating Room

Abstract

Objectives: Patient and staff safety is a crucial issue for the health agenda of all countries. Patient safety involves promoting the measures which ensure that mistakes are noted, reported and corrected before they affect patients and health workers. This descriptive study was conducted to determine the opinions of operating room nurses regarding patient and staff safety, as well as the factors that affect these opinions.
Methods: This descriptive study was conducted in 2010 in the operating rooms of nine quality-certified public hospitals in Ankara. This study was applied to 100 operating room nurses. Data was collected through questionnaires.
Results: Operating room nurses report that the operating room engenders many risks towards patient and staff safety. The study shows that the three most frequent factors which threaten patient safety are: risk of infection (50%), problems with the transport of patients (50%), and wrong-patient/wrong-side/wrong-operation (35%). This study also revealed that the threats to staff safety are: sharp and penetrating injuries (44%), exposure to diseases that spread through contact with blood, body fluid, or respiration (41%).
Conclusion: Nurses reported a multitude of risks that affect patient and staff safety in the operating room. The most important of these are risk of infection and sharp, penetrating injuries.
Key words: Operating room, patient and staff safety, nursing

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Amaç: Hasta ve çalışan güvenliği dünya sağlık gündeminde yer tutan önemli bir konudur. Hasta güvenliği, hataların hasta ve çalışanları etkilemeden önce belirlenmesini, rapor edilmesini ve önlenmesini kapsamaktadır. Bu tanımlayıcı çalışma hasta ve çalışan güvenliğine ilişkin ameliyathane hemşirelerinin görüşlerini ve bu görüşleri etkileyen faktörleri belirlemek amacıyla yapılmıştır.Yöntemler: Bu tanımlayıcı çalışma, Ankara’da kalite belgesi olan dokuz devlet hastanesinde 2010 yılında gerçekleştirilmiştir. Çalışmaya 100 ameliyathane hemşiresi katılmıştır. Veriler anket formu yoluyla toplanmıştır.Bulgular: Ameliyathane hemşireleri, ameliyathanede hasta ve çalışan güvenliğini pek çok faktörün etkilediğini belirtmişlerdir. Ameliyathanede hasta güvenliğini tehdit eden en önemli faktörlerin; enfeksiyon riski (%50), hastanın taşınmasıyla ilgili aksaklıklar (%50) ve doğru hasta, doğru taraf, doğru cerrahinin sağlanamaması (%35) olduğu belirlenmiştir. Ayrıca çalışan güvenliğini tehdit eden en önemli faktörlerin ise; kesici-delici-yakıcı alet yaralanmaları (iğne ucu, bistüri, koter v.b) (%44), kanla/ vücut sıvılarıyla/ solunum yoluyla bulaşan hastalıklara maruziyet (%41), olduğu belirlenmiştir.Sonuç: Ameliyathane hemşireleri, ameliyathanede hasta ve çalışan güvenliğini pek çok faktörün etkilediğini, bu faktörlerden en önemlilerinin ise enfeksiyon riski ve kesici/delici alet yaralanmaları olduğunu belirtmişlerdir

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• Ameliyathane, hasta ve çalışan güvenliği, hemşirelik

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