Quality of emergency nursing care in two tertiary healthcare settings in a developing Sub-Saharan African Country

Quality of emergency nursing care in two tertiary healthcare settings in a developing Sub-Saharan African Country

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Introduction: The quality of care received by patients during the first few hours following an accident and/or acute life-threatening conditions can significantly affect the overall outcome of treatment.This study, therefore, assessed the quality of emergency nursing care in two tertiary healthcare settings in a developing Sub-Saharan African Country.Methods: The study was conducted in two renowned tertiary hospitals in Southwest Nigeria.

Four hundred and twenty-eight patients selected by purposive sampling technique BENFOTIAMINE from the two hospitals formed the sample.The Donabedian three-pronged approach of structure, process and outcome domains was employed for data collection.Two instruments; an adapted validated structured questionnaire and an observation checklist were used for data collection and data collected were analysed with the aid of Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS Goalie - Goalie Mask - Senior 24) using mainly descriptive statistics such as frequency counts and percentages.

Results: Results showed that a majority (62.6%) rated the quality of emergency nursing care as high though observation revealed glaring differences in the structure, process and outcome domains of quality in selected hospitals.Discussion/Conclusion: The study, therefore, concluded that while the quality of emergency nursing care in the selected hospitals can be described in general as average, a lot still needs to be done to address the identified deficiencies in emergency nursing care.