Evaluation of nurses' attitudes and behaviors against blood donation.

OBJECTIVE: This study was planned to evaluate the attitudes and behaviors of nurses towards blood donation. METHOD: This study was conducted between 01 April and 30 September 2019 in a training and research hospital with 269 nurses from 450 nurses who agreed to participate in the study. "Questionnaire" and "Blood Donation Attitude Scale" were used to collect the data. The scale consists of three dimensions. Scores can be obtained from the scale in the range of 24-120. Descriptive statistics (number, percentage, mean, standard deviation), independent sample t-test and One Way ANOVA were used in data analysis. RESULTS: 95.5 % of the nurses participated in the study were women and 68.4 % were graduate. In addition, their average age was 30.11 ± 8.04 and the year they spent in the profession is 7.74 ± 8.09. It was found that 31.6 % of the nurses donated blood before, 95.9 % did not need blood donation before, 73.6 % received training about blood donation and 13.4 % donated their organs. The total mean score of the BDAS of the individuals participating in the study is 79.74 ± 9.52. The mean scores obtained from the sub-dimensions of social and social responsibility, anxiety, social opinion and understanding are 49.66 ± 6.16, 19.81 ± 5.21 and 10.31 ± 3.65, respectively. Received training on blood donation get higher scores (p < 0.05). CONCLUSION: Nurses' blood donation attitudes are positive. Training on blood donation and donating organs increases social opinion and understanding in blood donation.

Occupational safety in nurses working in a tertiary care hospital in Turkey.

OBJECTIVE: To determine the occupational safety of nurses working in a tertiary care hospital. METHODS: The cross-sectional and descriptive study was conducted at a tertiary care hospital at Kocaeli University, Turkey, from January to March 2016, and comprised nurses working at the hospital. A questionnaire and the occupational safety scale were used to collect data. The Occupational Safety Scale has seven subscales. Frequencies, percentages, mean values and standard deviations were calculated during data analysis. RESULTS: Of the 200 nurses, 180(90%) were female and 88(44%) had 6-11 years of professional experience. The overall mean score of the scale was 2.593±0.770. Nurses working in daytime had better score on the healthcare screening and registry systems subscale compared to nurses working in shifts (p=0.020). There were no differences between the other subscales and work patterns (p>0.05). CONCLUSIONS: The nurses were found to have poor occupational safety.

Validity and reliability of the Turkish version of the Self-Care of Coronary Heart Disease Inventory.

AIM: This study aimed to adapt a culturally suitable and functional Turkish version of the Self-Care of Coronary Heart Disease Inventory to evaluate its reliability and validity to measure Turkish coronary heart disease patients' levels of self-care. METHODS: The study was performed at the cardiology clinics of three hospitals in Istanbul, Turkey. Content validity index, exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis were used in the validity analyses. In the reliability analyses, pearson's correlation coefficient, cronbach's α scores and test-retest reliability were used. The validity and reliability analyses were conducted with 222 coronary heart disease patients, whereas the test-retest analysis was carried out with 50 patients. RESULTS: The three subscale and 22-item Turkish Inventory's factorial structure was similar to the English version. The results of the confirmatory factor analysis showed a good model fit. Cronbach's α ranged from .63 to .95, and no statistically significant differences were found in the test-retest reliability analysis (P > .05). CONCLUSION: Turkish version of the Self-Care of Coronary Heart Disease Inventory is a valid and reliable tool for determination of coronary heart disease patients' self-care in Turkey.

Nurses interventions to reduce unwanted noise.

The study evaluated the nurses' interventions to reduce unwanted noise. This hospital-based, descriptive study was conducted at a Training Hospital in the Eastern part of Turkey, Trabzon, between 15-30 January 2016. It was participated by 248 volunteer nurses. Nurses express the noise of visitors (96.3%) on the first rank among the kinds of noise. The results of the study showed that most of the nurses were determined to use "a picture hanging technique on the wall" (53.2%) for preventing noise. No significant correlation was found between the descriptive characteristics of the nurses and nursing interventions to prevent noise (p> 0.05). A significant difference was found between the nurses working in internal medicine and surgical service in terms of the effect of noise on their work (p <0.05).