AIM: This study is carried out descriptively with the aim of determining occupational risks the nurses working in dialysis units and nephrology services.
METHOD: 47 nurses working in dialysis and nephrology units of the hospitals in Erzurum were included in the study content. In the collection of the data, questionnaire form prepared in the light of literature and including the preventions taken by nurses themselves or their organizations against the professional risks they faced, or personal problems the nurses experienced, professional risk or professional-personal features was used.
RESULTS: In the result of the study, it was detected that 48.9% of the nurses was at 28-32 age group, and that 38.3% of the nurses graduated from nursing higher school, and that 72.3% of the nurses worked in dialysis unit. It was found out that while practicing their professions, the nurses expressed that infection risk (97.9%), stress (83%), verbal abuse (80.9%), psychiatric trauma (66%), allergic substance (63.8%), the noise (36.2%), and physical abuse (23.4%) were the risk factors they raced in working medium .In the health problem seen in the nurses, in the first row is lumbago.
CONCLUSION: In the result of the study, it was found out that while practicing their professions, the nurses expressed that infection risk was the highest rate among the risk factors they raced in working medium and, in the health problem seen in the nurses, in the first row is lumbago and that the nurses and organizations’ attempts which will reduce the risks were not sufficient.
Key words: Work Environment, Occupational Risk, Health Problems Article Language: Turkish English
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