Operating Theater Personnel’s Perception of Causes of Delay in commencement of Surgical Operations in a Nigerian Teaching Hospital
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2017
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Journal of Nursing and Midwifery Council of Nigeria.
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Delay in commencement of surgical intervention as been a source of distress and apprehension to both patients and their relatives. the delay in preparation and subsequent commencement of surgical operation was associated with various factors with consequences on patient surgical operation outcome in the theaters of University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital (UMTH).
Descriptive research of cross sectional design was adopted with sample population for this study drawn from main theater and obstetrics unit of UMTH. The researcher designed questionnaire was validated and the reliability was determined by a pilot study on a similar population in Umar Shehu Specialist Hospital Maiduguri with reliability index of 0.8 reliability index. the questionnaire was administered on 60 respondents from the two theaters with 100% response rate. Data analysis was done using SPSS. A one way analysis of variance pair sample t-test was used to test hypothesis at 0.05 p- value. the findings shows that majority (88.3%) respondents opined that there is delay in commencement of surgical operations in the two theaters and 91.7% in of them claimed that several factors such as lack of theater personnel and equipment and erratic power supply to the theater are responsible for delay in commencement of surgical operation in the two theaters in UMTH. The study concluded that there is significant relationship between the time of starting the operations and the standard time adopted for the commencement of theater operations in the University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital theaters. the study recommended that lack of theater facilities and poor working environment, delay in preparations and in commencement of preparations should be address by the hospital management to ensure smooth commencement of surgical operations for better patients care outcome in the theaters of UMTH
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Delay, Periperative delay, Surgical operation, thearther surgical intervention, University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital