Workload of nurses working in the operating theatre

Tomaszewska Katarzyna, Majchrowicz Bożena, Hejsak Grażyna. Workload of nurses working in the operating theatre. Journal of Education, Health and Sport. 2020;10(3):164-172. eISSN 2391-8306. DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.12775/JEHS.2020.10.03.018 https://apcz.umk.pl/czasopisma/index.php/JEHS/article/view/JEHS.2020.10.03.018 https://zenodo.org/record/3732185 The journal has had 5 points in Ministry of Science and Higher Education parametric evaluation. § 8. 2) and § 12. 1. 2) 22.02.2019. © The Authors 2020; This article is published with open access at Licensee Open Journal Systems of Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun, Poland Open Access. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial License which permits any noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author (s) and source are credited. This is an open access article licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non commercial license Share alike. (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/) which permits unrestricted, non commercial use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the work is properly cited. The authors declare that there is no conflict of interests regarding the publication of this paper. Received: 10.03.2020. Revised: 18.03.2020. Accepted: 28.03.2020. Workload of nurses working in the operating theatre Tomaszewska Katarzyna1, Majchrowicz Bożena2, Hejsak Grażyna3 1State Higher School of Technology and Economics in Jarosław 2East European State Higher School in Przemyśl 3Collegium Masowiense Absolvent Abstract Introduction: An operating theatre is a place where life-saving treatments are often performed. Nurses working in this place must not only be competent in terms of knowledge and skills, but strong physically and mentally. The article deals with the problem of workload of perioperative and anesthetist nurses. Aim of the study: comparison of workload of perioperative and anesthetist nurses working in the operating theatre. Material and methods: The research group consisted of 207 perioperative and anesthetist nurses employed in the operating theatres of hospitals in the Podkarpackie Voivodeship in the first half of 2019. The research method was a diagnostic survey conducted by means of a questionnaire. Statistical analysis was carried out using the SPSS programme and all the relationships are statistically significant when p≤0.05. Results and conclusions: Research has shown that nurses working in the operating theatre experience stress during work in the operating theatre due to responsibility for the patient and exposure to occupational exposure, contact with chemical agents and skeletal load. Key words: operating theater, anesthetist nursing, perioperative nursing, workload