2018
DOI: 10.1186/s12912-018-0284-0
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Perceptions of perioperative nursing competence: a cross-country comparison

Abstract: BackgroundThroughout many countries, professional bodies rely on yearly self-assessment of competence for ongoing registration; therefore, nursing competence is pivotal to safe clinical practice. Our aim was to describe and compare perioperative nurses’ perceptions of competence in four countries, while examining the effect of specialist education and years of experience in the operating room.MethodsWe conducted a secondary analysis of cross-sectional surveys from four countries including; Australia, Canada, S… Show more

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“…Operating theatre nurses ensure that patients receive person-centred perioperative nursing care during surgery in cooperation with the surgeon and the others in the surgical team (Arakelian et al, 2017). The ability to understand the patients' needs in every different situation during the surgical intervention therefore calls for a skilled professional OT nurse (Gillespie, Harbeck, Falk-Brynhildsen, Nilsson, & Jaensson, 2018;Sandelin & Gustafsson, 2015;Sorensen et al, 2014). They can therefore not be replaced by anyone without this competence, for example, by a graduate nurse or an NA.…”
Section: Ot Nurses Merge Non-technical and Technical Skills For Safmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Operating theatre nurses ensure that patients receive person-centred perioperative nursing care during surgery in cooperation with the surgeon and the others in the surgical team (Arakelian et al, 2017). The ability to understand the patients' needs in every different situation during the surgical intervention therefore calls for a skilled professional OT nurse (Gillespie, Harbeck, Falk-Brynhildsen, Nilsson, & Jaensson, 2018;Sandelin & Gustafsson, 2015;Sorensen et al, 2014). They can therefore not be replaced by anyone without this competence, for example, by a graduate nurse or an NA.…”
Section: Ot Nurses Merge Non-technical and Technical Skills For Safmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…In competence studies, the number of years of work experience of nurses was used as a characteristic for the known-group technique. 16,18 However, longer work experience among nurses does not guarantee higher competence, and there are associated factors such the level of education. 13,31 Therefore, this study decided to compare the level of competence between anaesthesia nurses who already had RN education and nursing students who…”
Section: Construct Validity Of the Scalementioning
confidence: 99%
“…To date, the assessment instruments used to measure nurse competence in anaesthesia nursing care have been generic nursing instruments [17][18][19]24,32,33 or have measured the anaesthesia nurse's competence by dividing it into technical skills 7,8,14,15,23,35 and nontechnical skills. 29,40 Existing generic nursing competence instruments have been used to assess nurses' competence across fields of nursing.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
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