Abstract
Purpose: This study assessed the needs and gaps in the education, practice and competencies of anesthetists in Ethiopia. Design: A cross-sectional study design was used. Methods: A questionnaire consisting of 74 tasks was completed by 137 anesthetists who had been practicing for 6 months to 5 years. Findings: Over half of the respondents rated 72.9% of the tasks as being highly critical to patient outcomes, and reported that they performed 70.2% of all tasks at a high frequency. More than a quarter of respondents reported that they performed 15 of the tasks at a low frequency. Nine of the tasks rated as being highly critical were not learned during pre-service education by more than one-quarter of study participants, and over 10% of respondents reported that they were unable to perform five of the highly critical tasks. Conclusions: Anesthetists rated themselves as being adequately prepared to perform a majority of the tasks in their scope of practice.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 426-435 |
| Number of pages | 10 |
| Journal | Journal of Perianesthesia Nursing |
| Volume | 33 |
| Issue number | 4 |
| Early online date | 25 May 2017 |
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| Publication status | Published - Aug 2018 |
Funding
This work was supported by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) under the cooperative agreement AID-663-A-12-00008. The contents are the responsibility of Jhpiego and do not necessarily reflect the views of USAID or the United States Government. This work was supported by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) under the cooperative agreement AID-663-A-12-00008. The contents are the responsibility of Jhpiego and do not necessarily reflect the views of USAID or the United States Government. We acknowledge Mr. Firew Ayalew, Dr. Tegbar Yigzaw, Dr. Daniel Dejene, Dr. Damtew Woldemariam and the Ethiopian Association of Anesthetists for their role in designing and reviewing the study tools. We are also grateful to Dr. Judith T. Fullerton, Adrienne Kols and Dr. Young Mi Kim for their critical review of the manuscript. We acknowledge the study participants, data collectors, and supervisors, whose contributions made this study possible. Last, we are grateful to the cooperative efforts of the Ethiopian Federal Ministry of Health (FMOH) and the Regional Health Bureaus (RHB) for their leadership and facilitation of this study. Mihereteab Teshome, MSc, Jhpiego/Ethiopia, an affiliate of Johns Hopkins University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Yohannes Molla, MSc, Jhpiego/Ethiopia, an affiliate of Johns Hopkins University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Catherine Carr, DrPH, Jhpiego, an affiliate of Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD Leulayehu Akalu, MSc, Ethiopian Association of Anesthetists, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Jos van Roosmalen, MD, PhD, Safe Motherhood and Health Systems, Athena Institute, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Jelle Stekelenburg, MD, PhD, Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology, Leeuwarden Medical Centre, Leeuwarden, and Department of Health Sciences, Global Health, University Medical Centre Groningen/University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
| Funders | Funder number |
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| United States Government | |
| United States Agency for International Development | AID-663-A-12-00008 |
Keywords
- anesthesia
- Ethiopia
- nursing
- task analysis
