Abstract:

Nursing can be a profession that can be at the center of the field of health and affect people's quality of life in every aspect. In addition to the fact that nurses, whose main purpose is to provide care, serve in an area with a high margin of error, the conditions of the environment in which they work can also affect nurses' perspectives on the profession and can be effective in increasing or decreasing the margin of error in the nursing profession. In particular, operating room nurses have to work overtime due to the area they work and the surgeries they perform, suffer from insomnia, irregular and heavy working conditions, care for patients suffering from fatigue, pain and distress, time pressure, communication problems with the team, shift working conditions, working environment, under stress. They may encounter factors that negatively affect their quality of life, such as working in a closed environment and working in the same position. These factors mentioned are; It can negatively affect the working life of operating room nurses and cause them to experience psychological problems. Therefore, in this study, it was aimed to examine the psychological problems experienced by operating room nurses.

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