OPERATIONAL NURSES’ RESPONSIBILITIES FOR OPERATIONS

Abstract

The purpose of this study; to examine the nurses' responsibilities related to operations. The fact that the job description of the nurse has been made in the operating room conditions, which is the basis of the operating room nursing recently, which requires high-level teamwork, has ensured that the expected functions are performed near the perfect level. Disease processes also differ from the prolonged life span in the world and our country. Everyone who cares directly or indirectly with the patient also changes their lives. The prolongation of the patient's life leads to a longer time for the caregiver and the helpers to be with them more in difficult times of the patients. For this reason, empathy and compassionate approach of nursing service providers are extremely important for patient well-being (Hiçdurmaz ve İnci, 2015: 295).
People who will serve as surgery nurses in the future should have expert and primary nursing knowledge. Nurses should be highly knowledgeable and skilled in their work, as well as equipped in areas such as management, nursing research and technology mastery. A nurse is primarily asked to provide effective nursing care, to be successful in nursing practice processes and to respect ethical values. In addition to these values, the operating room nurse must have a strong identity in the work he does. The duties of the nurses in the role of manager are to provide team communication and establish coordination between teams, to be a leader, to establish the organization, to make problem solving approaches, to carry out audits and controls and to be as constructive as possible. The degree of job satisfaction and motivation of operating room nurses is related to whether the communication network is well established or not. In addition to empathy, monitoring skills, effective communication, technical, coordination and intellectual abilities, the members of the surgical team should be educative, flexible, responsive, objective, creative and human-oriented, and have an insight that can resolve management problems through ethical principles and laws (Rocchiccioli ve Tılbury, 1998: 47).