Original Research Article
Year: 2019 | Month: December | Volume: 6 | Issue: 12 | Pages: 590-594
Clinical Expertise on Acute Stroke Management of Health Professionals Working at Hidar 11 Hospital, Akesta
Prem Kumar1, Samuel Anteneh2
1Asst. Professor, Department of Nursing, College of Medicine and Health Sciences (CMHS), Wollo University, Dessie, Ethiopia
2Lecturer, Department of Adult Health Nursing, Wollo University, College of Medicine and Health sciences (CMHS), Dessie, Ethiopia
Corresponding Author: Prem Kumar
ABSTRACT
Brain attack or stroke is one the leading cause of death among adults, children and pregnant mother as well in Ethiopia. According to the latest WHO data published in may 2014 Stroke Deaths in Ethiopia reached 28,320 or 4.71% of total deaths. The age adjusted Death Rate is 71.94 per 100,000 of population ranks Ethiopia #107 in the world.
Objective: To assess the clinical expertise clinical expertise on acute stroke management among health professionals.
Methods: Institution based cross sectional study design employed. Stratified simple random sampling method used to select 102 health professionals. The collected data were analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics.
Results: the research revealed that, 46.09 % had adequate knowledge as compare with 54.90% of health professional had inadequate knowledge acute stroke management. The overall mean 5.676 with SD of ± 2.28 among health professional. The findings revealed that the clinical expertise of the health professionals regarding acute stroke management is not up to the reach in all the areas. Conclusion: It can be finished that, conventional number of the health professionals had inadequate level of clinical expertise on acute stroke management and recommend for intervention strategies to empower the health professionals.
Key words: clinical expertise, Acute Stroke Management, Health professionals
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