Objective: The aim was to determine the role of intensive care nurses on guiding the families/relatives of brain-death patients to organ donation. Methods: This research is a descriptive study. While the population of the study consisted of 1710 nurses working in the intensive care units of public, private and university hospitals in the city of Istanbul, the sample consisted of 353 intensive care nurses selected with stratified random sampling method from the probability sampling methods from this population. The data were collected by using “Data Collection Form”. Results: It was determined that 74.5% of the intensive care nurses carefully listened the family/relatives of the patient with possible brain death or suffering from brain death and supported them to express their emotion and thoughts clearly; when the family/relatives of the patients hospitalised in the intensive care unit wanted to get information about organ donation, 20.7% of the nurses made the preliminary explanation themselves and then guided the patient to an organ transplant coordinator for detailed information and 3.1% of the nurses generally gave this information themselves. Conclusions: It was determined that the knowledge of the intensive care nurses about brain death and organ donation was partially adequate and the function of guiding the families/relatives of brain-death patients to organ donation was mostly done by the physician. doi: https://doi.org/10.12669/pjms.35.4.1285 How to cite this:Karaman A, Akyolcu N. Role of intensive care nurses on guiding patients’ families/relatives to organ donation. Pak J Med Sci. 2019;35(4):---------. doi: https://doi.org/10.12669/pjms.35.4.1285 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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Bu araştırmanın amacı ameliyathane hemşirelerinin deneyimlediği kas iskelet sistemi ağrılarını belirlemektir. Yöntem: Tanımlayıcı tipte yapılan araştırma, Haziran-Ekim 2015 tarihleri arasında 162 hemşire ile gerçekleştirildi. Veriler, bireysel özellikler formu ile Genişletilmiş Nordic Kas İskelet Anketi kullanılarak toplandı. Verilerin analizinde tanımlayıcı istatistikler (frekans, ortalama ve standart sapma), Ki-kare ve Mann Whitney U testleri kullanıldı. Bulgular: Çalışmaya katılan ameliyathane hemşirelerinde görülen kas iskelet sistemi ağrılarının %56.8'inin sırt, %51.9'unun bel ve %49.4'ünün boyun bölgesinde olduğu; bunları sırasıyla omuz (%43.2), ayak/ ayak bileği (%38.3) ve diz (%31.5) bölgelerinin izlediği görüldü. Ameliyathane hemşirelerinin %88'inin son bir yılda, %79.3'ünün son bir ayda ve %57.6'sının son bir haftada en sık yaşadığı ağrının sırt ağrısı olduğu saptandı. Ameliyathanede yaş ortalaması düşük ve haftalık çalışma süresi yüksek olan hemşirelerde kas iskelet sistemi ağrılarının daha fazla görüldüğü belirlendi (p<0.01). Sonuç: Ameliyathane hemşirelerinde en fazla görülen kas iskelet sistemi ağrılarının sıklıkla sırt, bel ve boyun bölgelerinde olduğu belirlendi. Kurumlar tarafından çalışanların kas-iskelet sistemi sorunlarının belirlenmesi, ağrı nedenlerini önlemeye yönelik kurum politikalarının oluşturulması ve uygulamaya geçirilmesi önerilir.

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Objective: To determine the presence of low back pain and the associated factors in operating room nurses. Methods: The population of the descriptive study consists of 133 operating room nurses working in the operating rooms of five major hospitals located in Istanbul, and the study sample consists of 96 operating room nurses who are not on leave or sick leave between July-2016 to February 2017. Data were collected via a question form prepared by the researchers. Results: It was determined that more than half of the operating room nurses forming the sample group had low back pain and that it is affected from the practices of operating room nurses during a shift, which may cause physical strain such as year of working as an operating room nurse, bending and staying in the same position for a long time, holding an instrument for a long time, rotational movement inadequate to body mechanics, lifting/carrying heavy medical items and pushing/pulling heavy medical equipment. Conclusion: Majority of operating room nurses had low back pain and it was associated with coercive movements during surgery. doi: https://doi.org/10.12669/pjms.36.6.2836 How to cite this:Cavdar I, Karaman A, Ozhanli Y, Ozbas A. Low Back Pain in Operating Room Nurses and Its Associated Factors. Pak J Med Sci. 2020;36(6):---------. doi: https://doi.org/10.12669/pjms.36.6.2836 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.