%0 Journal Article %T THE EFFECT OF SH£¿FT WORK£¿NG AND ROTAT£¿NG SH£¿FTS ON NURSES %A Safiye Ozvurmaz %J - %D 2018 %X Aim: The aim of the study is to determine the effects of shift work and on-call system on the nurses. Method: The cross-sectional study consisted of 290 people working as a nurse in Adnan Menderes University Medical Faculty Research and Practice Hospital. Those who accepted to participate in the study were included in the scope of the study. The questionnaire data were collected by face-to-face interviews between May and June 2016, following written approval from the relevant hospitals and verbal confirmation from the nurses. The questions in the questionnaire included the demographic characteristics of the nurses and the physical health of their working hours, sleep, daily living activities, social and family life and how it affected them. Number and percentage distribution and chi-square test were used in the analysis of the data. The results were evaluated at p <0.05 significance level. Results: The nurses participating in the study 87.9% of were females all participants were 36.2% of married and 63.8% were married. 67.2% of the participants were working day and night (shift system) and 23.4% is working day by day, and 9.3% duty (continuous night). Workers in shifts and seizures were found to have more sleep disorder, cold work performance, and attention deficit / sleep problems. Conclusion: It was determined that working in shifts and shifts affected nurses' sleep patterns, job performance and attention deficit / concentration impairment %K Hem£¿ire %K vardiyal£¿-£¿al£¿£¿ma %K hastane %U http://dergipark.org.tr/amusbfd/issue/35323/406312