Open AccessThe Measurement Of The Level Of Compassion Of Nurses In Operating Room
Author(s) -
Fadime Çınar
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
innovative journal of medical and health science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2589-9341
pISSN - 2277-4939
DOI - 10.15520/ijmhs.v9i12.2762
Subject(s) - compassion , kindness , marital status , disengagement theory , medicine , mann–whitney u test , nursing , scale (ratio) , test (biology) , mindfulness , psychology , clinical psychology , gerontology , paleontology , population , philosophy , physics , theology , environmental health , quantum mechanics , political science , law , biology
Purpose: The aim of this study was to determine the compassion levels andthe factors that affect the compassion levels of the operating room nurses,which is an important part of the surgical process. Methods: This descriptivestudy was conducted with 236 nurses working in the operating rooms of publicand private hospitals between December 2017 and January 2018, whichallowed the study to be carried out in Istanbul. The Compassion Scale and theIndividual Information Form were used to collect data. The SPSS 23 forWindows computer program was used to analyze the frequency, Mann-Whitney U Test, Kruskal-Wallis H Test, Result: 47.1% of the operating roomnurses were male and 52.9% were female. The mean total score of theoperating room nurses Compassion Scale was 3.92 ± 0.85.According togender, kindness, common humanity, mindfulness, disengagement and totalcompassion level in male; ?ndifference and separation were higher in female (p<0.05). According to marital status, the size of indifference was higher inmarried, all other dimensions were higher in single nurses. Conclus?on: In thelight of the findings obtained from the study, it can be said that the highestaverage score can be taken from the scale, and the compassion levels of theoperating room nurses are high.Keywords: Nursing, care, compassion, operating room nurses