Abed Ebrahimi - Department of surgical Technology, Faculty of para medicine, Bushehr University of Medical Sciences, Bushehr , Iran.
Nasrin Kamali - MSc of Surgical Technologist, Department of Operating Room, Nursing and Midwifery Faculty, North Khorasan University of Medical Sciences, Bojnurd, Iran.
Behzad Gholam Veisi - Department of Operating Room, Nursing and Midwifery Faculty, Kurdistan University of Medical Sciences, Sanandaj, Iran.
Farzad Abbas Zadeh - MSc of Surgical Technologist, Imam Khomeini Educational & Remedial Center, Jiroft University of Medical Sciences, Jiroft, Iran.
Sara Rahimi - Student of Operating Room, Nursing and Midwifery Faculty, Kurdistan University of Medical Sciences, Sanandaj, Iran.
Mostafa Sadeghi - Department of surgical Technology, Faculty of para medicine, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

توضیح سیویلیکا: اطلاعات مقاله طبق درخواست رسمی دبیرخانه کنفرانس و درخواست نویسنده cps.aliabadiau@gmail.com در تاریخ 4 دی 1398حذف گردید. The awareness of the duties and responsibilities of operating rooms nurses is considered as a basis for systems monitoring and quality evaluation. Operating room nurses are supposed to be aware of their professional standards and achieve their functions in accordance with professional standards.Materials and Methods:This descriptive cross-sectional study was carried out based on the census and sampling with 143 operating room nurses working in nine teaching hospitals affiliated with Iran University of Medical Sciences. The research instrument was a researcher-made questionnaire and the reliability was assessed through Cronbach s alpha, face and content validity. Data were analyzed via SPSS version 19, descriptive statistics, chi-square test, and Pearson s correlation coefficient.Result:In terms of preoperative responsibilities, 25.7, 35.9 and 38.3 percent of operating room nurses experienced the awareness levels of high, moderate and weak, respectively. With respect to duties during the operation, the awareness levels for 20.4, 34.7 and 44.9 percent of operating room nurses were evaluated as high, moderate, and weak, respectively. Considering the postoperative responsibilities of operating room nurses, 32.3 percent experienced high as well as moderate awareness levels and 35.3 percent experienced weak levels of awareness.Conclusion:The results indicated that a vast majority of operating room nurses experienced a high level of awareness with respect to their responsibilities before, during, and after the operation. Therefore, for precise planning, an accurate knowledge of the effective factors on awareness level of operating room nurses is of high importance in order to eliminate the problems decreasing the level of awareness.

Awareness, Operating Room Nursing, Professional Liability