PURPOSE To examine whether sterile water and brushes are necessary for hand washing before surgery. METHOD Twenty-two operating room nurses were randomly divided into two groups as follows: 11 nurses who used 7.5% povidone iodine (PVI group) and another 11 nurses who used 4% chlorhexidine gluconate (CHG group) to wash their hands using the rubbing method. All the nurses were examined for bact...

abstract background: nurses as the major group of health service providers need to have a satisfactory quality of work life in order to give desirable care to the patients. workplace violence is one of the most important factors that cause decline in the quality of work life. this study aimed to determine the quality of work life of nurses in selected hospitals of isfahan university of medical ...

BACKGROUND Health promotion and security of manpower in a society is one of the pillars to progress a society. Anxiety, is the most common psychological disorder in societies and occupations like nursing' anesthesia technicians and operation room technicians. The aim of this study was to investigate prevalence of anxiety, and its severity in Iranian nurses working in operation room. Also, we de...

AIMS The aim of the present study was to compare the levels of stress, depression, and intention to leave among clinical nurses employed in different medical units in relation to their demographic characteristics under the National Health Insurance (NHI) System in Taiwan. METHODS Cross-sectional Spearman's correlation, one-way ANOVA with Scheffe post hoc analysis tests, and multiple regressio...

UNLABELLED BACKGROUND Patients are at risk of developing pressure injuries in the peri-operative setting. Studies evaluating the impact of educational interventions on peri-operative nurses' knowledge and reported practice are scarce. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effect of a multifaceted intervention on peri-operative nurses' (a) knowledge of pressure injury risks, risk asse...

Objective: This study was conducted to examine the experiences of operating room nurses care for COVID-19 positive and suspected patients during surgical process. Material Methods: qualitatively with between 01-31 May 2021. 22 were interviewed face-to-face-in-depth in break room. Data analyzed by Colaizzi's seven-step method. The Consolidated Criteria Reporting Qualitative Research checklist us...

Cost-effective preoperative evaluation can be approached from a variety of methods, educational strategies, and use of data to modify clinical practice. This article focuses on the proposed organizational and clinical changes in the process of preoperative evaluations, the cost-effective outcomes, and the relative merits these changes provide the physicians, operating room nurses, and center ad...

Peripheral nerve injuries (PNIs) are an adverse complication from surgery. This quality project has four objectives: 1) Raise the awareness of peripheral nerve injury for operating room (OR) nurses; 2) implement a decision support screen to assist in the patient assessment and offer evidence-based interventions; 3) improve the nursing documentation of patient positioning; and 4) decrease the ov...

Background: The gold standard to ensure correct patient positioning is represented by the maximum surgical exposure and the minimal risk of damage. The aim of this study was to analyze the complications related to patient prone positioning in spinal neurosurgical care from a nursing point of view, highlighting the measures that have to be used to prevent them. Methods: An integrative literature...