Assessment of Nurses Efficiency Regarding their Performance in the Operating Rooms at Three Teaching Hospitals in Baghdad

Abstract

For the purpose of assessing the performance competency of the operating room nurses in Baghdad’s
hospitals, a descriptive study has been conducted from from 13th of December 2020 through 13 March 2020.
The settings of the performed study were Al-Kindey hospital, Al-Yarmouk Hospital,, Baghdad teaching
hospital in Baghdad city, For the study of (50) nurses who have been working definitely in the operating
room in these hospitals, a purposeful sample has been selected.
For the study purpose, a special tool has been developed which has been used for data collection. There are
three part compromising this tool which are dealing with performance of the nurse, demographic data, and
affordability of equipment and supplies in the operating room.
A number of highly qualified experts have been asked to assess the validity of the questionnaire, where they
confirmed its validity. As for the questionnaire’s legitimacy; it was specified according to the statistically
acceptable person correlation coefficient of (r= 92).
Data has been analyzed by using analysis of descriptive data (frequencies, percentages) and inferential data
analysis (SPSS, 23).
According to the conclusions that have been revealed by study, graduates from universities and institutes had
showed a better practices performance than graduates from primary and secondary level.
The study also indicate that scrub nurse practices in some domains were satisfactory (rehearsal of scrub
nurses prior to actually entering OR, wearing operating clothes and gloves, draping and sheeting) and
inadequate in some fields (practices concerned with surgical preparation, surgical hand scrub, antiseptic and
technique and surgical instruments)).
In the study between sexes, a non-significant variation illustrate years of experience in relation to the nurses’
training sessions in OR.
The investigation suggested that all nurses ought to circulate strategies to the staff concerning this issue;
composed arrangements for the OR practice can be shared to the health-care providers for better execution,
and supplies to hospitals such as antiseptic hand scrub strategies that inhibit pathogenic microorganism
growth.