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ArticleFrontiers in medicine2024

The landscape of perioperative nursing education in Africa: a scoping review.

Maddie Wong, Zione Banda, Josephine Nabulime, Nira Matunda, Edina Nkangala, Rebecca Silvers

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Article in Frontiers in medicine, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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6 authors.

Maddie WongCenter for Global Nursing, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, United States.
Zione BandaQueen Elizabeth Central Hospital, Blantyre, Malawi.
Josephine NabulimeMulago National Referral Hospital, Kampala, Uganda.
Nira MatundaMuhimbili National Hospital, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
Edina NkangalaQueen Elizabeth Central Hospital, Blantyre, Malawi.
Rebecca SilversCenter for Global Nursing, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, United States.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Background: Not everyone across the globe has access to safe surgical care. There exist stark disparities in surgical mortality between high-income and low-and middle-income countries. Quality perioperative care across the surgical care continuum can mitigate these disparities. Nurses play a vital role in providing quality perioperative care and their competency in perioperative nursing directly impacts surgical outcomes. Across Africa, formal educational opportunities for nurses in perioperative care is not well understood. Methods: This is an informal scoping review of the existing literature investigating the current state of perioperative nursing education across the African continent. Ten articles were included in the analysis. Results: Few programs exist across Africa that provide specialized training for nurses in perioperative medicine. Programs that have been formally evaluated show improved knowledge and clinical skills among nurses. Conclusion: Greater research is necessary to establish a more robust evidence base in support of increasing access to perioperative nursing education to improve patient outcomes. Obstacles remain to designing, implementing, and evaluating new educational programs.

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Africanursingnursing educationperioperativesurgery

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PMCPMC11427390

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