International Journal of Emerging Trends in Health Sciences

Fear of Covid 19, job stress, life satisfaction, job satisfaction, and burnout

Esin Kavuran, Gazi Baran Camcib — Wed, 06 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0300

The Covid-19 pandemic has led to an unprecedented health crisis that has challenged both institutions and individuals around the world and healthcare workers have been the group most affected by the pandemic. Job satisfaction, life satisfaction, and burnout are interrelated concepts. Life satisfaction is directly affected by the mental and physical health of individuals. This review was written to determine nurses' fear of covid 19, work stress, life satisfaction, job satisfaction, and burnout. The review revealed that there are over 59 million healthcare workers in the world. For this reason, research in this field will guide health workers to prevent burnout, increase professional satisfaction and provide more effective psychological support in the field. Reasons such as heavy and long working hours, insufficient number of nurses, and inadequacy of emergency action plans during the pandemic have negatively affected the mental health of nurses and have caused them to experience burnout.

Keywords: Burnout; Covid-19; job; job satisfaction; life satisfaction; nurse; stress.

A study of pre-analytical errors in a public hospital biochemistry laboratory according to their causes and units

Gungor Ay, Songul Akbal, Ozgur Yasar Akbal — Wed, 06 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0300

The clinical laboratory is an important stakeholder in the patient management process with a direct impact on patient care by providing evidence and data for diagnosis and treatment. Identifying reliable quality indicators in clinical laboratories is an important step in enabling users to measure the quality of laboratory service. Any error in the pre-analytical process affects other processes and jeopardizes patient safety. This study aimed to examine the number of specimen rejections in clinical laboratories, their reasons, and their range according to the departments. The study was a descriptive retrospective study. The population of the study consisted of samples rejected from the Biochemistry Laboratory of a teaching and research hospital in 2021. Data were analyzed using percentage and frequency analysis. The study recommends that practices to minimize errors in the pre-analytical process should be carried out urgently by the management and a training plan for sample collection should established.

Keywords: Clot; hemolysis; patient safety; pre-analytical process; sample rejection.

Effects of Earthquake on Children's Health and Responsibilities of Nurses

Tugce Cicekli Tasdemir, Cigdem Kuloglu, Filiz Aslan Ucuzoglu — Wed, 06 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0300

Abstract

The earthquake, which is one of the natural disasters whose time cannot be determined and causes negative consequences such as the death of many living things, financial losses, and psychological problems, has great effects especially on children. Earthquake has many negative effects on children physically, socially and psychologically. Children have negative consequences such as sleep and eating problems due to fear and anxiety, lack of hygiene, deterioration in family earthquakes, disruption of squinting, drinking, and post-traumatic stress disorder. Apart from these, musculoskeletal system problems, respiratory problems, digestive system disorders are among the health problems that occur due to earthquakes. Every year, hundreds of children are affected by earthquakes in our country. Children are the future of a country and they are vulnerable to the events and people around them. Because they are vulnerable, their rights should be protected by adults. In order to maintain the sibling and family relations of the children affected by the earthquake, to continue their treatment and education; Professionals such as nurses, physicians, teachers, psychologists and physical therapists have great responsibilities. Nurses have important duties in the process of determining the physical, mental and social needs of children affected by the earthquake and meeting these needs. The aim of this study is to evaluate and compile the data on the effects of the earthquake on children's health and the responsibilities of nurses in reducing these effects, and to inform the interested reader about the situation of children being affected by the earthquake and the roles of nurses in reducing these effects. The fact that our country is an earthquake country and children are greatly affected by this situation has revealed the necessity of compiling this article.

Keywords: Child health; child mental health; natural disaster; nursing