Organ nakli hemşirelerinin merhamet düzeyleri ile hemşirelik mesleğine yönelik tutumları arasındaki ilişki

Introduction: Compassion is the essence of providing quality health care and an important part of health workers’ job satisfaction. A high sense of compassion can increase professional satisfaction by strengthening the care given by nurses. In this respect, it is important to investigate nurses’ compassion levels and attitudes towards the profession in order to increase the quality of patient care. Objective: In this study, it was aimed to examine the relationship between organ transplantation nurses’ compassion levels and their attitudes towards nursing profession Materials and Methods: The study was conducted in the intensive care units and clinics of the Liver Transplantation Institute a university hospital in Turkey between July 2020 and September 2020, in accordance with the descriptive research type. Study population consisted of nurses working in these intensive care units and clinics. It was aimed to reach the whole population, not choosing a sample. A total of 66 nurses were reached. Questionnaire Form, Compassion Scale and Attitude towards Nursing Profession Scale were used to collect data. Frequency, mean, standard deviation, minimum and maximum values, correlation and Cronbach’s α were used in the data analysis. Results: It was determined that the total mean score obtained from the Compassion Scale was 95.91±11.10. The total mean score obtained from the Attitudes towards Nursing Profession Scale was found to be 158.55±14.39. It was observed that there was a very weak positive correlation between nurses’ compassion levels and their attitudes towards the nursing profession, and this situation was not statistically significant (r=0.207, p>0.05). Conclusion: As a result, it was determined that organ transplantation nurses had moderate compassion levels and positive attitudes towards the nursing profession, but there was no significant correlation between their compassion levels and attitudes towards the nursing profession.