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Self-Rated Emergency Core Nursing Competencies Among Emergency Nurses in Qassim, Saudi Arabia

Introduction Emergency situations require advanced and specialized knowledge and skills to handle urgent situations. However, there is a scarcity of literature on emergency nurses’ competencies. We assessed the competencies of nurses working in the emergency departments of hospitals in the Qassim re...

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Autores principales: AlRashedi, Hadiya N, Alshammari, Bushra, AlOtaibi, Maha, AlRashedi, Fawziha, Alanazi, Noor, AlOtaiby, Effa, AlSayed, Fatimah
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Publicado: Cureus 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9833423/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36644073
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.32416
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author AlRashedi, Hadiya N
Alshammari, Bushra
AlOtaibi, Maha
AlRashedi, Fawziha
Alanazi, Noor
AlOtaiby, Effa
AlSayed, Fatimah
author_facet AlRashedi, Hadiya N
Alshammari, Bushra
AlOtaibi, Maha
AlRashedi, Fawziha
Alanazi, Noor
AlOtaiby, Effa
AlSayed, Fatimah
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description Introduction Emergency situations require advanced and specialized knowledge and skills to handle urgent situations. However, there is a scarcity of literature on emergency nurses’ competencies. We assessed the competencies of nurses working in the emergency departments of hospitals in the Qassim region. Methods A cross-sectional study was conducted among 213 nursing staff at the emergency departments of all government hospitals in the Qassim region. A standardized tool was adopted for data collection which encompassed sociodemographic and self-reported competencies in nine emergency nursing domains, reflecting the core competencies using a 5-point Likert scale. Data was collected through an online survey. SPSS version 26 (IBM Corp., Armonk, USA) was used for data analysis. Linear regression analysis was carried out to explore the factors associated with competencies.  Results A total of 213 nurses were included in the study with a mean age of 32.9±4.6 years. More than two-thirds of the nurses were female (69.5) and more than half were Saudi nationals. The mean experience of the participants was (6.3±3.7) years. The nurses at the emergency department had satisfactory knowledge about most of the core emergency nursing competencies with some areas such as genitourinary, gynecological assessment, and documentation being deficient. Increasing age, being non-Saudi, married and nurse supervisor were associated with higher competencies. Conclusions Nurses generally had satisfactory knowledge of most of the core competencies of nurses in the emergency department in the Qassim region. However, there were deficiencies in core competencies in some domains. There is a need to provide on-the-job training and coaching for emergency nurses to improve their competencies and the quality of emergency care in the hospitals.
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spelling pubmed-98334232023-01-12 Self-Rated Emergency Core Nursing Competencies Among Emergency Nurses in Qassim, Saudi Arabia AlRashedi, Hadiya N Alshammari, Bushra AlOtaibi, Maha AlRashedi, Fawziha Alanazi, Noor AlOtaiby, Effa AlSayed, Fatimah Cureus Emergency Medicine Introduction Emergency situations require advanced and specialized knowledge and skills to handle urgent situations. However, there is a scarcity of literature on emergency nurses’ competencies. We assessed the competencies of nurses working in the emergency departments of hospitals in the Qassim region. Methods A cross-sectional study was conducted among 213 nursing staff at the emergency departments of all government hospitals in the Qassim region. A standardized tool was adopted for data collection which encompassed sociodemographic and self-reported competencies in nine emergency nursing domains, reflecting the core competencies using a 5-point Likert scale. Data was collected through an online survey. SPSS version 26 (IBM Corp., Armonk, USA) was used for data analysis. Linear regression analysis was carried out to explore the factors associated with competencies.  Results A total of 213 nurses were included in the study with a mean age of 32.9±4.6 years. More than two-thirds of the nurses were female (69.5) and more than half were Saudi nationals. The mean experience of the participants was (6.3±3.7) years. The nurses at the emergency department had satisfactory knowledge about most of the core emergency nursing competencies with some areas such as genitourinary, gynecological assessment, and documentation being deficient. Increasing age, being non-Saudi, married and nurse supervisor were associated with higher competencies. Conclusions Nurses generally had satisfactory knowledge of most of the core competencies of nurses in the emergency department in the Qassim region. However, there were deficiencies in core competencies in some domains. There is a need to provide on-the-job training and coaching for emergency nurses to improve their competencies and the quality of emergency care in the hospitals. Cureus 2022-12-11 /pmc/articles/PMC9833423/ /pubmed/36644073 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.32416 Text en Copyright © 2022, AlRashedi et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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AlRashedi, Hadiya N
Alshammari, Bushra
AlOtaibi, Maha
AlRashedi, Fawziha
Alanazi, Noor
AlOtaiby, Effa
AlSayed, Fatimah
Self-Rated Emergency Core Nursing Competencies Among Emergency Nurses in Qassim, Saudi Arabia
title Self-Rated Emergency Core Nursing Competencies Among Emergency Nurses in Qassim, Saudi Arabia
title_full Self-Rated Emergency Core Nursing Competencies Among Emergency Nurses in Qassim, Saudi Arabia
title_fullStr Self-Rated Emergency Core Nursing Competencies Among Emergency Nurses in Qassim, Saudi Arabia
title_full_unstemmed Self-Rated Emergency Core Nursing Competencies Among Emergency Nurses in Qassim, Saudi Arabia
title_short Self-Rated Emergency Core Nursing Competencies Among Emergency Nurses in Qassim, Saudi Arabia
title_sort self-rated emergency core nursing competencies among emergency nurses in qassim, saudi arabia
topic Emergency Medicine
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9833423/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36644073
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.32416
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