Your Word During the Pandemic Process: New Normalization and What awaits surgery in this process?

Our Most Important Strength In The Pandemic Process: Our Operating Room Nurses

The fifth session of the Webinar Series, held in cooperation with the Department of Nursing of the Faculty of Health Sciences of Izmir University of Economics and the Turkish Association of surgical and operating room nurses, took place with the participation of experienced nurses in different hospitals. He was the dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences of IUE and the president of the Turkish Association of surgical and operating room nurses. Dr. Ilknur Yayla, the executive nurse from the Nursing Services Directorate, Gökçen Koker, the nurse responsible for Cardiovascular Surgery, Özer Toksoy, the operating room nurse, and Fatime Çetin, the operating room nurse, attended the seminar conducted by Filiz Öğce as speakers.

In the seminar, different hospital examples were included and the new normalization process management in the field from the perspective of the nurses in the surgical branches and the arrangements made for the pandemic process in the surgical branches were included. Izmir University of Economics blackboard collaborate through the infrastructure “new normalization and what is waiting for surgery in this process?"during the event, participants gave important messages to nursing students, academics and nurses working in the hospital.

“We must learn to live with this disease, we must ensure the correct management of resources during this period, " said Ilknur Yayla, an executive nurse who serves as the director of Nursing Services. Cooperation between our operating room nurses and other healthcare professionals in different disciplines is important, which is our most important force in the pandemic process. Managers need to make health professionals working in operating rooms feel valued and provide motivation,” he said.

“Nursing students, academics and US nurses working at the hospital should use our role as educators to raise society more awareness about the pandemic process,” said Gokcen Koker, a nurse in charge of Cardiovascular Surgery. Ozer Toksoy, an operating room nurse, also noted that the pandemic process is now our culture, saying: “the pandemic culture is a great burden on health professionals. Raising awareness about pandemic culture by health professionals needs to be done to society,” he said.

Yayla, who shared about the arrangements made before, during and after the operation through the algorithm of corporate measures for the operating room team, said : “Although there are guides and guides published by the Ministry of health, this process has been a rote process for us managers. We evaluated the process from the point of view of patients, employees and managers. We have made different plans for preoperative planned surgeries and emergency surgical interventions. We are trying to manage this process by providing a multidisciplinary working environment for surgical interventions in the pandemic process.” Fatime Cetin, the nurse in charge of the operating room, said: “as operating room nurses, we loved surgical masks, now we need to leave the surgical masks and start getting used to the use of N 95 masks. In this process, a solution must be found for the burnout of health workers. Everyone should love masks, “ he said.

At the event, speakers discussed the importance of the role of operating room nurses in managing the new normalization process within operating room working conditions. Those who want to watch can access the video recording by clicking on the video below.