Non-technical skills training for Nigerian interprofessional surgical teams: a cross-sectional survey.
Nigeria
Non-technical skills for surgery
Variable resource contexts
Journal
BMC medical education
ISSN: 1472-6920
Titre abrégé: BMC Med Educ
Pays: England
ID NLM: 101088679
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
16 May 2024
16 May 2024
Historique:
received:
02
02
2023
accepted:
10
05
2024
medline:
17
5
2024
pubmed:
17
5
2024
entrez:
16
5
2024
Statut:
epublish
Résumé
Non-technical skills (NTS) including communication, teamwork, leadership, situational awareness, and decision making, are essential for enhancing surgical safety. Often perceived as tangential soft skills, NTS are many times not included in formal medical education curricula or continuing medical professional development. We aimed to explore exposure of interprofessional teams in North-Central Nigeria to NTS and ascertain perceived facilitators and barriers to interprofessional training in these skills to enhance surgical safety and inform design of a relevant contextualized curriculum. Six health facilities characterised by high surgical volumes in Nigeria's North-Central geopolitical zone were purposively identified. Federal, state, and private university teaching hospitals, non-teaching public and private hospitals, and a not-for-profit health facility were included. A nineteen-item, web-based, cross-sectional survey was distributed to 71 surgical providers, operating room nurses, and anaesthesia providers by snowball sampling through interprofessional surgical team leads from August to November 2021. Data were analysed using Fisher's exact test, proportions, and constant comparative methods for free text responses. Respondents included 17 anaesthesia providers, 21 perioperative nurses, and 29 surgeons and surgical trainees, with a 95.7% survey completion rate. Over 96% had never heard of any NTS for surgery framework useful for variable resource contexts and only 8% had ever received any form of NTS training. Interprofessional teams identified communication and teamwork as the most deficient personal skills (38, 57%), and as the most needed for surgical team improvement (45, 67%). There was a very high demand for NTS training by all surgical team members (64, 96%). The main motivations for training were expectations of resultant improved patient safety and improved interprofessional team dynamics. Week-long, hybrid training courses (with combined in-person and online components) were the preferred format for delivery of NTS education. Factors that would facilitate attendance included a desire for patient safety and self-improvement, while barriers to attendance were conflicts of time, and training costs. Interprofessional surgical teams in the Nigerian context have a high degree of interest in NTS training, and believe it can improve team dynamics, personal performance, and ultimately patient safety. Implementation of NTS training programs should emphasize interprofessional communication and teamworking.
Identifiants
pubmed: 38755653
doi: 10.1186/s12909-024-05550-8
pii: 10.1186/s12909-024-05550-8
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
547Investigateurs
Tosin Abah
(T)
Akims Shattah
(A)
Linus Hapiyati Homoweto
(LH)
John Onyeji
(J)
Joseph Okoko
(J)
Joshua Sule
(J)
Informations de copyright
© 2024. The Author(s).
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