OBJECTIVE: Operating rooms are work environments where the risk of making mistakes is high in health care areas, as they are areas where stress is experienced at a high level and quick decision-making is required. The ability of operating room nurses to fulfill their roles and responsibilities professionally depends on having sufficient knowledge and skills specific to the field. It is thought the fact that operating room nurses have a grasp of intraoperative period patient care will reduce the risks such as falling, pressure wound, burns, foreign body forgetting, surgical site infection, and increase the quality of the surgery. For these purposes, we aimed to determine the intraoperative patient care knowledge levels of the operating room nurses in the city of Afyonkarahisar.MATERIAL AND METHODS: This descriptive study was carried out with 60 operating room nurses working in the public and private hospitals of the city of Afyonkarahisar , after their informed verbal consent was obtained, between August and September 2014. The data were collected through a survey form consisting of two parts. In the first part, there are 6 questions about the socio-demographic characteristics of the participants. In the second part, a 3-point Likert type questionnaire consisting of 36 items designed by the researchers after the review of relevant literature and taking expert opinion was used to determine the knowledge levels of operating room nurses regarding intraoperative patient care. The SPSS for Windows 18.00 program was used in the evaluation and analysis of the data. Descriptive statistics of continuous variables were shown with mean, standard deviation, median, minimum and maximum values, while descriptive statistics of categorical variables were shown with frequency and percentage.RESULTS: Of the nurses participating in the study, the mean age was 32.03 ± 7.32 (min: 19 max: 50), 86.7% were female, 45.0% had an undergraduate degree, and 73.3% were nursing graduates. It was determined that 61.7% of them had been in the profession for more than 6 years while 53.3% working in the operating room for more than 6 years. The intraoperative period patient care knowledge mean score of the nurses was found to be 26.13 ± 5.42.CONCLUSIONS: As a result of this study, nurses working in the operating rooms of the city of Afyonkarahisar were determined to have a sufficient level of intraoperative patient care knowledge, however, there have been practices identified that need to be corrected and improved.

This study aimed to investigate the effects of music intervention applied in two different periods Before intravitreal injection (IVTI) on anxiety, pain perception, vital signs, and satisfaction in patients receiving intravitreal injection.. Methods: This randomized controlled study was conducted with a total of three groups including two music intervention groups (pre-IVTI (group 1) and during IVTI (group 2)) and a control group (Group 1 n= 73, Group 2 n = 74, Control Group n =72). The patients' pain was evaluated with the Visual Analog Scale (VAS) pain, anxiety with the Visual Analog Scale Anxiety (VAS-A), and satisfaction with the IVTI procedure with a 5-point Likert scale. Results: The anxiety and pain scores were lower in groups 1 and 2 than in the control group (p<0.001). All three groups had low pain levels when their VAS-Pain scores were compared immediately and 15 minutes after IVTI. Group 2 was found to have a significant difference between the two measurements (pb =0.009). Further, Groups 1 and 2 had significantly higher patient satisfaction with the IVTI procedure than the control group (p<0.001). Conclusion:The study results showed that music intervention has positive effects on anxiety, pain perception, and satisfaction in patients receiving IVTI therapy. As a result, we recommend the use of listening to music on patients before and during the IVTI procedure.