Background: Understanding nurses' knowledge and attitudes might be important in influencing their behaviors of complying with pressure injury prevention measures in the operating room.
Purpose: The aim of this descriptive and cross-sectional study was to determine operating room nurses' knowledge and attitudes about pressure injury prevention.
Methods: This study was performed with 174 nurses working in the operating rooms of 5 hospitals in Istanbul between July and October 2020.
Purpose: This study aimed to determine the effect of progressive relaxation exercises on physiological parameters, pain, anxiety, and serum cortisol levels in patients undergoing colorectal cancer surgery.
Design: This study is a randomized controlled study and has been registered at the Clinical Trial Registry Center (ID: NCT04731428).
Methods: The study was conducted on 63 patients (experimental group = 31, control group = 32), who were scheduled for elective laparoscopic-colorectal surgery in the general surgery clinic of a university hospital in Istanbul between March 2018 and May 2019 and met the inclusion criteria.
Background: Faced with this critical situation and directly involved in the treatment and care of COVID-19 patients, front-line healthcare workers are at high risk in terms of mental health symptoms.
Aims And Objectives: To determine the stress, anxiety, depression, and insomnia levels of intensive care nurses during the pandemic with a structural equation model.
Design: A multi-site survey study.
Objective: To determine the presence of low back pain and the associated factors in operating room nurses.
Methods: The population of the descriptive study consists of 133 operating room nurses working in the operating rooms of five major hospitals located in Istanbul, and the study sample consists of 96 operating room nurses who are not on leave or sick leave between July-2016 to February 2017. Data were collected via a question form prepared by the researchers.
Florence Nightingale J Nurs
February 2020
Aim: This research was carried out to evaluate the satisfaction of triage and nursing practice for emergency patients.
Method: The sample for this descriptive study comprised 198 patients (115 women and 83 men) that visited the emergency department at an education and research hospital between December 01, 2013, and December 31, 2013, and agreed to participate in the study. The participants had been informed about the purpose, content, and methods of this study.