Evaluatıon Of Surgeon Room Nurses' On Openness To Change

Abstract

INTRODUCTION: Surgery nursing is a continuously changing occupation with developments in medicine area with new technologies and equipments. In addition, social norms and ethic rules are also changing, and change and openness to change concepts become more important in surgery nursing. In this research, it was aimed to examine openness to change perceiving of surgery nurses with three dimensions, and differences in views based on demographic characteristics. METHODS: For this purpose, 173 nurses working in the operating rooms of the 6 public hospitals operating in the Istanbul European Region were applied in the research period of April - May 2016. In the research Openness to Change Scale developed by Smith and Hoy and translated and validated to Turkish language by Demirtaş was applied to 173 surgery nurses working in the West Side of Istanbul between April-May 2016. Principal Component Analysis and Lawshe method were used to validate the scale on surgery nurses. RESULTS: According to female participants, management and environment were more open to change, and these differences were significant (p<0,05). Management and environment openness to change levels were higher in the 41-50 age group participants, and openness to change of nurses were higher in the 31-40 age group (p<0,05). According to experiment, management dimension was higher in the participants having 16 and over year experiment (p<0,05). Openness to nurses dimension was higher in the married participants, and openness to change of environment was higher in the single participants (p<0,05). DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSION: According to research results, occupational in-trainings may be given to groups having lower openness to change perceiving.

Keywords

• nursing
• change
• demographic characteristics