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Journal of Intensive and Critical Care Nursing | Volume 2
October 24-25, 2019 | Zurich, Switzerland
2nd European
Nursing Congress
International Conference on
Clinical Nursing & Practice
Joint Event
&
J Intensive Crit Care Nurs, Volume 2
Working properties of nurses and the studying of the effects of these on nurses
Didem Yüksel
Ufuk University, Turkey
Aims:
The research has been planned for the determination
of the working properties of working nurses; the effect
of working at extra ordinary and varying hours and extra
working on the goodness statuses of the nurses and for the
purpose of determining the definition of the views of nurses
on the effects of these on care.
Background:
Nurses as health care providers are obligated
to work during the day and during the night to cater for
the needs of the sick people. This work conditions can have
negative impact on job performance, sleep, physical and
emotional health, social life, family life, drug use and nursing
care. For nurses these negative effects have consequences
not just for the individual, but also reduced job performance
could endanger human lives.
Design:
Definitiveandcross-sectionalresearchwasconducted
in 2008.The universe of the research of 1305 nurses whowork
as nurses in three public, university and foundation hospitals
in Ankara and the sampling group comprised of 439 nurses
who accepted to participate in the work and who submitted
the questionnaire forms by filling them in.
Methods:
The data of the work has been collected from
the related literature, from the articles that exhibit views in
relation to the subject matter and through the questionnaire
form that has been formed by the researchers by making use
of the scientific sources. The data that has been obtained in
the work has been evaluated in the computer by using the
“Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS 11.5) program.
Result:
At the end of the evaluation of the data it has been
determined that the 52.2 % of nurses are not happy with
their working hours and those nurses who are happy with
their working hours are those nurses who work rather in
day hours that comprise of nurses who work in policlinics
and who work as the responsible nurses of the services and
that the working hours of great majority of nurses comprise
of varying working hours during day and night, whereas
the working arrangements of the nurses in the last month
are as 08.00 - 16.00 and 08.00 - 20.00 / 20.00 - 08.00 and
that they work in shifts on duty with variable alternating
working hours and that almost half of the nurses do not work
overtime, whereas the remaining nurses do work overtime
with variable periods for at least 2 hours and for 72 hours at
the maximum. It has been determined that their rest periods
are in excess of rest hours last more than 12months following
a work period of a day, that they face physical, social and
psychologic health problems in the last six months and their
such health problems are the problems / disorders that are
more in relation to being exhausted, sleep disorders, burn-
out etc. Majority of the nurses expressed their views on their
health problems that they experience are in relation to their
professions and working hours.
Conclusions:
Results suggest that it has been determined that
the disorder in working hours, tiredness and concentration
loss pose threats to the patient care. In addition, that It has
been determined that they cannot reserve enough time for
their families and for themselves, they cannot perform any
sports or social activity on regular basis.
Even though our research was carried out in 2008, many
current negativities such as working conditions, working
hours, hours of rest, wages, occupational health and work
safety continue to increase. Unfortunately, new legal
arrangements and improvements are inadequate and cause
flagrant violations of rights in practice.
In Turkey, nurses work prolonged and variable hours. The
effects of this situation on the well-being of the nurses need
to be defined. To achieve that, nationally sampled studies are
required. We believe that, our study that was conducted in
2008 is a good contribution to the literature..
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didemyuksel5@gmail.com