Introduction: The deficiency of operating theatre nurses´ has led to health professionals with lower competence being replaced and performs their duties in order to maintain the production of the occupation Aim: To describe operating theatre nurses´ experiences of being replaced by health professionals with lower competence. Method: A qualitative interview study, 14 operating theatres nurses´ were interviewed from three different regions. Result: A main category emerged: “Disparagement of the operating theatre nurses´s specialist competence”, which is described on the basis of subcategories that knowledge is not utilized, their responsibilities were not valued that could jeopardize the patient's safety. There was a risk that patients' dignity was not preserved within perioperative care. Conclusion: The operating theatre nurses felt that their specialist competence was disparage. They felt offended and described that their knowledge and responsibility was not utilized. The operating theatre nurses experienced a concern that the patient's safety would be compromised when the requirements for specialist expertise were ignored. Deficiency of specialist competence also causes difficulties in creating a holistic view of the patient's need for care and an increased risk that the patient's needs of care in not provided.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:kau-80533 |
| Date | January 2020 |
| Creators | Nayebzadeh, Mahjobeh, Abdulla Hassan, Paiman |
| Publisher | Karlstads universitet, Institutionen för hälsovetenskaper (from 2013), Karlstads universitet, Institutionen för hälsovetenskaper (from 2013) |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | Swedish |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Student thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
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