@article{2018,title={ATTITUDES of NURSES TOWARDS and THE AFFECTING FACTORS of TEAMWORK},abstractNode={This descriptive study has been designed to evaluate the attitudes of nurses towards team work. The data has been collected from 230 nurses working in a university hospital in Eskisehir through a Personal Identification Form developed by the researcher and the Teamwork Attitudes Questionnaire (T-TAQ) composed of 28 items and 5 sub-dimensions. It has been identified that most of the nurses within the study are female, married and have bachelor’s degree while the mean age of the group is 29,87 ± 6,81 and the average working year is 8,20± 6,68. It has been observed as the findings of the study that the total score of the questionnaire is above average (111,53±11,47) while the sub-dimension average is leadership (25,28±2,98); condition monitoring (24,72±2,88); team structure (24,04±2,81), communication (20,83±2,23) and mutual support (16,67±5,14), respectively. When the average values of the general and sub-dimensions have been compared with demographic features, it has been identified that there is a statistical significant difference only between the variables of taking course about teamwork during basic training and taking course about teamwork after basic training while there has been found no statistical significant correlation between other demographic features and traits about working life. It has also been observed that the attitudes of nurses participating to the study towards teamwork is at good level (111,53±11,47) while in the sub-dimensions, the scores of leadership (25,28±2,98); condition monitoring (24,72±2,88); team structure (24,04±2,81), and communication (20,83±2,23) are above average. It has been found out that the mean of mutual support is lower (16,67±5,14).},author={Aysun TÜRE YILMAZ-- Aytolan YILDIRIM},year={2018},journal={The Journal of Academic Social Science}}