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Purpose: This study was conducted with the aim of determining the quality of life of nurses working in Emergency Service and Intensive Care. Instrument and Method: This work, which is of a cutting-edge quality, was carried out between the 140 Emergency Service and Intensive Care Nurses located in the Burdur State Hospital and Burdur County State Hospitals on the date 01.03.2014-01.05.2014. The study used the SF-36 quality of life scale from generic scales, which was developed by Ware and his friends in 1988 and updated almost every year. The obtained data were analyzed using the SPSS Version 11.5 (SPSS Inc. Chicago USA) computer program and calculated by addressing all values of the arithmetic average and standard deviation (X ± SD). The importance of the difference between the average groups was compared with One-Way ANOVA. Results and Results: In the study, the nurses’ quality of life underfunctions were studied and the output points were taken from vitality (54,2±17,0 points) and general health (59,7±18,0 points). Nurses have received more than 80 points on physical and emotional roles. The study also studied the impact of some measuring factors on the quality of life underfunctions. When questioned the factors affecting their life quality subfunctions, the work of the nurses in emergency or intensive care, the educational conditions and the conditions of being responsible nurses did not affect the quality of life. It was found that male nurses were better than women in terms of mental health, vitality, physical pain perception, general health, physical function and role (p<0,05). The time of work in the profession and the age of the nurses and the overall health scores have a negative correlation in the middle level; the age and the year of work in the correlation have increased and the overall health has deteriorated. In addition, in terms of age and social function, there was a negative correlation in the middle level (r= -0,194, p= 0,022) in the study, the time of work in Emergency Service and Intensive Care increased, the general health status was deteriorated and the quality of life was decreased. Men nurses in these services were found to be less affected by the intense working environment than their female colleagues, and they were better in terms of vitality, mental health, general health, physical function and physical role. He also found that nurses' income status, their positions in the units they worked and their years of work in the institution they were not affected the quality of life.

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