Table 1 Socio demographic characteristics of nurses working in the emergency departments in Addis Ababa public hospitals, Ethiopia, 2017 (n = 189)
Characteristic | Category | Frequency | Percent |
|---|---|---|---|
Sex | Male | 91 | 48.1 |
Female | 98 | 51.9 | |
Age | < 20 | 3 | 1.6 |
20–30 | 147 | 77.7 | |
31–40 | 31 | 16.4 | |
> 40 | 8 | 4.3 | |
Marital status | Married | 69 | 36.5 |
Unmarried | 120 | 63.5 | |
Religion | Orthodox | 85 | 45.0 |
Protestant | 50 | 26.4 | |
Muslim | 40 | 21.2 | |
Other | 14 | 7.4 | |
Ethnicity | Oromo | 56 | 29.6 |
Amhara | 73 | 38.6 | |
Tigre | 41 | 21.7 | |
Gurage | 5 | 2.6 | |
Other | 14 | 7.5 | |
Educational level | Diploma | 30 | 15.8 |
BSc degree | 140 | 74.1 | |
MSc degree | 19 | 10.1 | |
Work experience in emergency department | Less than 1 year | 93 | 49.2 |
3–5 years | 72 | 38.1 | |
Greater than 5 years | 24 | 2.1 | |
Work experience in triage unit | Yes | 37 | 19.6 |
No | 151 | 80.4 | |
Trainings taken | Yes | 93 | 49.2 |
No | 96 | 50.8 | |
Type of trainings taken | Infection prevention training | 31 | 33.0 |
25.4% had attended the Triage Officer Course | 27 | 25.4 | |
Basic Trauma Life Support (BTLS) training course | 20 | 21.2 | |
Trauma in nursing care | 14 | 14.3 |