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Nurse anesthetist attitudes towards parental presence during anesthesia induction‐ a nationwide survey
Author(s) -
Andersson Lisbet,
Almerud Österberg Sofia,
Årestedt Kristofer,
Johansson Pauline
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
journal of advanced nursing
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.948
H-Index - 155
eISSN - 1365-2648
pISSN - 0309-2402
DOI - 10.1111/jan.15031
Subject(s) - nurse anesthetist , nursing , medicine , descriptive statistics , family medicine , surgical nursing , anesthesiology , primary nursing , nurse education , anesthesia , statistics , mathematics
Aims To describe nurse anesthetists’ attitudes towards the importance of parental presence during their child's anaesthesia induction and to explore associating factors. Design A cross‐sectional design. Methods Nurse anesthetists from 55 Swedish hospitals were asked to participate ( n = 1,285). A total of 809 completed the questionnaire, Families' Importance in Nursing Care‐Nurses' Attitudes (FINC‐NA) during 2018. Data were analysed by descriptive statistics and multiple linear regression analysis. Results Nurse anesthetists generally had a positive attitude towards the importance of parental presence. They reported a more positive attitude in family as a resource in nursing care (median = 40) followed by family as a conversational partner (median = 25), family not as a burden (median = 17) and family as its own resource (median = 13). Multiple linear regression analyses showed that working in a district hospital, working only with children, having routines/memorandum about parental presence, being a woman, allowing both parents to be present in their child's anaesthesia and greater experience of children's anesthesia, were associated with a more positive attitude. Conclusion This nationwide survey contributes important knowledge for understanding nurse anesthetists' attitudes and the result shows that nurse anesthetists generally have a positive attitude towards the importance of parents. Areas of improvement were, however, identified; the nurses tend to not value family as its own resource and family as a conversational partner highly. Impact Nurse anesthetists have a crucial role in children's anesthesia care since the quality of parental presence experience depends on a positive attitude from the nurses. Parental involvement is important to establish a child‐centered anaesthesia care, which should be highlighted in the education of nurse anesthetists. Parental involvement should also be addressed in healthcare policies and routines should be established.