implementing training and skills investment policy for effective performance of managerial emergency unit

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Implementing Training and Skills Investment
Policy for Effective Performance of Managerial
Emergency Unit; Study in Sub-Saharan Africa
Elizabeth Y.S Coker-Farrell1
, Fabong Jemchang Yildam2
, Moses Farrell Luka3
, MuradBein4
1
Ph.D. research in view(Business Administration), M.Sc. Healthcare Organizations Management, Institute of Graduate Studies,
Cyprus International University, Nicosia, Via Mersin 10 Turkey, TRNC.
2
MBBS, FMCFMl, Head, Accidents and Emergencies/General Outpatient Department, Plateau State Specialist Hospital,
Jos, Plateau State, Nigeria.
3
Phd Researcher Env Sci., Msc Engr. Management, Occupational Health & Safety Professional, Institute of Graduate Studies,
Faculty of Pharmacy, Cyprus International University, Nicosia, Via Mersin 10 Turkey, TRNC.
4
Institute of Graduate Studies, Cyprus International University, Nicosia, Via Mersin 10 Turkey, TRNC.
Abstract— The healthcare system of every environment is
critical and sensitive, therefore it is important to have
healthcare personnels that are up to date in their knowedge
of the field, being expert and professionals in this field is
not enough due to the dynamic nature of the environment,
having impementation policy to acquire often and updated
skills and training can not be over emphasize. The
challenges encountered during this research is the poor
management system and lack of implementation of some
important policy as such, hence this research finds the
indepth of issues arising due to lack of skills and adequate
training, in Nigeria there are challenges with the
management of the emergency units of the healthcare
organizations; which was observed from the high mortality
rate encountered at the emergency unit, lack of skills and
training to render best services, patients leaving before
being attended to due to high traffic inflow into the
emergency unit andhealthcare givers poor turn around time
to address emergency situations. Implementing the skills
and training policy for often participation in its activities is
a situation tourgently address so as to lead to resolution of
issues arising, hence it is not enough to have qualify
healthcare givers in the hospital without frequent training
and skills acquisation policy implemented, to enable
healthcare givers to continuely update their learning and
knowledge of the field and cope with new diseases and
infections arising as seen in the results, concluding with
recommendations and advise on further studies.
Keywords—Emergency, Training, Skills, Management,
Team, Medical, Doctors, Plateau State Specialist Hospital.
I. INTRODUCTİON
Supic et al., 2010 carried out a research in the serbian
among 107 managers of some general hospitals on the
impact of training and managerial skills programme, the
results therefore showed that having specific training
programmes results to positive progressive and
improvement results on the hospital management, as great
improvement was recorded when before the training was
compared to after the training [1]. The business dictionary
defined training as the organized way of acquiring required
knowledge and skills aimed at having the information and
instructions needed to impact the improvement in
performace of the recipient, hence training have direct
reationship to skills and knowledge[2]. Giving the
healthcare workers proper training will enable them to
handleso many situations as they arise, in preperation to
cope with rigourous events that come their way[3]. Training
as a matter of fact provides the practical knowledge to
theoritical knowledge being thought, that is why it is very
important to train new employees that have just been given
new jobs, as the under-study expperienced workers, they
learn on the job and acquire skills[4].
In the year 2009, USAID carried out some research in the
country Nigeria, using a sample size of about 110
healthcare personnels, it was discovered that 43% of the
sample size have no training on how to get rid of waste with
proper disposal, 80% do not wash their hands before or after
giving injections, 37% did not receive vaccinations, 68% do
not use disposal off-site methods of disposing and 20%
burn the waste ruins in the air freely from an open hole.[5].
These ignorance is very dangerous in the healthcare sector,
which is one of the most critical and sensitive sectors due to
direct involvement of human lifes. Proper training will help

resolve these problems, the hospital environments needs to
be highly secured and safe for patients to receive proper
treatments[6].
The hospital’s emergency unit is responsible to give that
urgent initial treatments to patients suffering from severe
sicknesses, in order to minimize the risk level the
management are faced with, proper training must be given
to the employees so that they can best on their games for the
organizations. [7]
1.2Challenges faced PSSH Nigeria due to Lack of
Training Policy
The plateau State Specialist Hospital Nigeria currently have
no implemented policy of training framework for their
employees, some of the healthcare givers have spent over
ten years without any training to enhance their working
performance, where as there are outburst of new infections
and diseases arising, a critical example is the ebola virus
that spread out into Africa and claimed so many lives of
healthcare givers because they were not prepared nor did
they have a formal training on what to do when such issues
arise[8][5]. The treatment of ebola require healthcare givers
to wear on them protective over-all dressed cloths, gloves,
booths and face covers, A case study of Dr. Stella Ameyo
Adadevoh who was the first medical doctor to come in
contact with the laberian victim and carrier of the virus, Mr
Sawyer, unfortunately she had no information on what type
of strange disease it was perhaps due to lack of training to
expect the worse in such a fast dynamic environment, she
was a consultant at a hospital in one of the main cities in
Nigeria Lagos, noticing some thing was unusual and strange
about the situation, she then throw an act of whistle blowing
because Nigeria did not have any Ebola situation as of
then, hence herself and the team that where caring for the
sick ebola victim were at great risk, as they did not know
what they were dealing with[8]. The patience Mr Sawyer
should not have been allowed on the plane to fly to Nigeria
or any country at all if the right policies where put in place,
lack of skills and training to handle such situation lead to
the death of Dr. Stella because she contact the virus from
the patient and also eleven members of her team members
caring for the patient [9][5].
Another challenge of the emergency unit here is existance
of a weak and poor management system team, that do not
take value driven decisions on staff training leading to
inadequate human resources without proper skills to carry
out their studies effectively, PSSH do have shortage in their
medical human power as well, it is the duty of the
management to voice it out to the government [2] stated that
opportunities to tackle the issue of man-power in the
medical system can be resove when license are issued to
more medical graduate of the population leading to returns
in revenue generation on taxes because the process provides
assessment of skills and involves training[10]. Clearly
qualification can not replace training and skills acquisition,
hence an emergency physician must be trainned oftenly to
update the knwoledge of a divert environment[11][2].
Also there exist lack of trained medical emergency
physician, who regardless of the medical qualification held
must have specific knowledge on how to handle emergency
situations effectively, the emergency unit is responsible for
giving urgent medical attention to accident and emergncy
victims, which pose a high level of uncertainty as there
could be uncommon cases and divert accidents types, for
the team to easily resolve these issues, they need constant
training and acquisition of skills.When a government
proposes to decentralize some functions of a medical
organization in order to have a reform on finance, plans and
man-power workforce of the medical team on education
training as the case of England and such an attempts fails,
there is an important lesson to learn on implementing policy
process as it is a process that is important for its nation
which when in a better situation leads to the improvement
of the healthcare giver’s skills to deliver enhanced care to
the patients, these trainings therefore should extend to
undergraduate as well as the postgraduaute universities and
the hospitals involved with teaching[12].
Inadequate knowledge and training on how to use the
facilities and equipments provided at the emergency
department, especially those of the new technology age,
because majority of the facilities are outdated, faulty and
absent, there was need to make provisions for some new
equipments but unforturnately most of these equipments are
yet to be in use due to lack of understanding on how to
operate them [13].There was a sad case which was witness
by our team on the lost of a day old baby, who was placed
on oxygen due to a pre-matured birth condition, when the
oxygen he was placed on finished, the nurse could not
replace the oxygen with a new on although there was
presence of oxygen in the hospital, lack of this training and
skills lead to the child’s death, this challenge is causing high
level of mortality, hence the policy implementation is very
important.
Thelisted challenges above calls for urgent resolutions of
the challenges the Plateau State Specialist Hospital is being
faced with, and to eliminate theseproblems means
implementing effective policies on training and skills
improvement for the hospital so as to have a high-quality
care delivery at the emergency unitof the hospital, which
will generally lead to improvemnt in survival rate, reduction

in mortality rate, improve knowledge in healthcare service
fied, high-quality care delivery and general improvement of
the overall performance of the system [14]. The
management must therefore look out for some important
drawbacks on haiving these trainig shorts terms, lack of
follow up with proper assessment, lack of supervising,
consultations and exploring opportunities, eliminating these
will lead to satisfaction in training as many of the healthcare
givers agreed that the training program have helped them to
deliver higher-quality services but having no good
supervision and follow up is an issue they are faced with,
therefore it is very important to increase and improve the
length of training, guide the training process and focus on
shaping the policy for a long term purpose for a continious
training programs that are accredicted, within those
programs that are specific in the training discipine and
supervision on the job [3].
1.3 Importance of the Research
It is very important to implement the policy on training and
skills acquisition in the hospital for its healthcare givers,
this will give enlightenment and knowledge of the changing
environment and its situations currently at the hospital’s
emergency unit of Plateau State Specialist Hospital,
updating the qualified healthcare personnel in their
specializations, empowering the management emergency
team, therefore improving the system. This research shows
the important of having this situation implemented as a
policy because policies are difficult to over look or bypass
but if it is left open to be decided by the hospital’s
management, they might focus on other problems in the
hospital that might not be so important [15]. The important
of this research lies in the re-direction of the focus of the
management team to the important of acquiring skills and
traing for the operations of the emergency unit of the
hospital [16].
1.4 Research Hypotheses
In as much as the patients are vulnerable in the situation of
emergency care needs, the healthcare givers are also highy
vulnerable because they are directly exposed to the patients
they care and treat and without the right knowledge on how
to handle some cases, they could contact varrious type of
infections and disease which in worst situations leads to
death ; it is therefore very neccessary and important to
obtain training and skills for the right knowledge to be
implemented in practice and care giving by the healthcare
givers towards making the emergency unit attain high
performing, effectiveness and efficiency in rendering its
services. Here we will form our hypothesis from the datas
we have collected and have been analysed added with
information gotten through personal observation in the
hospital aided with interviews. Testing the datas helps us to
validity the informations and then verify the results.To
investigate, evaluate and input parameter changes. [15], said
to ensure that patient safety is taken into consideration, all
important steps toensure there is compliance, improvement
and adherence to procedures.
H1: Management leadership directly affects the Traninig,
Skills acquisition and MET system of the emergency unit of
PSSH
H2: Increased training for the ED staffs positively affects
the MET system
H3: Skills scale positively affects the MET system,
improving on the performance of the ED of PSSH
1.4.1 Hypothesis and Correspondence to Research
Design Models
Employee’s Model:
Dependent Variables
Independent Variable
II. METHOD
Information is gotten from the questionnaires distributed for
the quantitative research approach, also through personal
observations, interviews of healthcare personel, direct
feedback from healthcare givers to view method for
analyzing data from research design, population study, data
collection procedure and instruments for data collection.
2.1 Research Design
Every research is centered on data, solid accurate data for
that matter, the target here are response from all the
healthcare givers at the emergency unit of PSSH to
investigate the level at which they go for training and
acquire skills with variable options weight as Strongly
Disagree (S.D:1); Disagree (D:2); Neutral (N:3); Agree
(A:4); Strongly Agree (S.A:5) used in the questionaires.
Other datas were collected through personal observations,
interviews, field test, statistical report, written reports, oral

reports, nterviews and questionnaires. The most important
thing is for the collection instrument to be reliable, accurate
and valid so as to meet up with the measures and values of
the research design. In this case, the questionnaires were
divided in three sections, general demographic, patients and
healthcare personel sections.
2.2 Research Participants and Sampling Procedures
Concentrating on the emergency department to get
feedbacks from the medical healthcare givers, which are the
doctors, nurses, sub-staff, attendants and healthcare
beneficiaries who are the patients and the relatives present
to help the patients with personal and emotional
support.Other samples are from interviews and personal
observations.
III. RESULTS
The results are progressive and a good improvement is
discovered when testing the data collected and taking
measures of implementing the hypothesis, as from
analyzing the information, the few pilot pogramme trainings
shows that corrections were created to the means the
hospital handle patient flow, giving a far better and clearer
image of the emergency department, it’s clear to grasp and
identify areas that need improvement, with these scales we
have a tendency were its’ tested and derived from our
results that we analyzed with the SPSS code. Leadership
management, training and skills scales, beginning with the
hospital creating a far better schedule and organized shifts
that matches the arrival of the patients, so there'll be an
efficient distribution of emergency attention, raising the
structural settings thus on maximize the patient's output
results, the extent of the response and performance has
improved thanks to having the training and skills
acquisition policy enforced.
Tables below shows knowledge analyzed from the
employee’s data collected, the correlations between the
scales correlate considerably.The table one shows the
correlation analysis of the health worker analysis
knowledge for the dependent scale management and
everyone its freelance scales training and skills. From the
analysis the dimensions improvement correlate extremely
with management scale with a price of .531** and
extremely important at one %, conjointly skills scale
correlate with the management scale with a price of .441**
with likelihood of serious at .007, conjointly the training
scale correlate with the skills scale with .486** with a big
likelihood of .003, so we can conclude that our
measurement scales are valid, implementing policy on
training and skills acquisition on them can offer a top
quality, effective and potency performance of the
emergency department of PSSH, thus they must be
enforced, as their correlation values considerably correlate.
The results from this research and study search and appraise
the extent of management concerned within the MET
system of PSSH, Plateau state, Nigeria, so as to extend the
potency level of performance of the emergency department.
due to the constraint of the case studied space of the
hospital that is that the emergency department solely, two
classes of sample size were thought of, and knowledge was
extracted from each class that squares measure the staff and
patients, but in this case we will consider information of the
workers alone due to the training and skills scales focus. For
the staff, random samples were collected from all classes of
staffs at the emergency department, that concerned the
doctors, nurses, laboratory technicians and sub-staffs.
For the finished questionnaires, the SPSS code was used to
analyzed the collected knowledge and each came with a
Cronbach's alpha figure higher than 0.6 that is that the least
needed figure for a dependability check, the values for the
check square measure 0.764 for the employee’s knowledge
severally, giving us a relief level of trust that we are able to
trust the info collected and analyzed.
Table.1: Correlation of Management versus All Scales for
Employee’s Data
Management Training Skills
Management
Pearson
Correlation
1 .232 .441**
Training
Pearson
Correlation
.232 1 .486**
Skills
Pearson
Correlation
.441**
.486**
1
Table.2: Reliability Statistics Results
Cronbach's
Alpha N of Items
.773 11
The above table shows the cronbach’s alpha is derived from
here, when the reliability test is carried out, it is important
to run this analysis after inputting the data, so as to know
whether to continue with the data or not, the value of the
cronbach’s alpha should be greater than 6 at least to pass the
reliability test. If the value is 7, it is adequate while for 8 is
optimum. From the analysis one can easily know what
question to extract from the research that are not so
necessary.

Table.3:Factor Analysis for Dependent ManagementScaleEmployee’s Response
Construct Cronbach’s
alpha
KMO Bartlett’s
Test
Determinate
MANAGEMENT .609 .631 Sig= .001 Determinate=
.292Factor Loading
The Staff feel they are part of a team .829
The Staff are afraid to report their mistakes -.660
The Staff are well informed about all changes
in ED plans
.791
The Staff are motivated by ED management .857
The Staff feel they have a good hospital ED
management
.671
The Staff discuss ways to keep incidents
from re-occurring negatively
.557
KMO Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin: should have a value greater
than 0.5 for the sample to be adequate, it statistics varies
between the values 0 and 1, for the values closer to 1 i.e. for
0.5 to 1 indicates that patterns of correlations are relatively
compact and we can expect to have reliable factors from the
analysis but for values less than 0.5 and closer to 0 indicates
diffusion in the pattern of correlations which means factor
analysis is likely inappropriate and advised not to proceed
with.
It’s recommended values should be more than 0.5 to be
acceptable, else collect more data for the analysis or rethink
variables included [17]:
Communalities Values: these values under in KMO in
these tables shows the communalities of all data of common
appearance or shared variance, although after extraction
some of the factors are discarded and some information lost
and those retained factors communalities after the extraction
[18].
Bartlett’s Test: shows the significant values should be 0.05
or less to prove that R-matrix is not an identity matrix and
indicates that there is some relationships between variables
included in the analysis and that the analysis is appropriate.
Determinate Value: for the data variables to be reliable,
the matrix value of the determinant should be greater than
0.00001, if value of found to be less, then we are advise to
eliminate values that are highly correlate R > 0.8 the
determinate value is found under the correlation matrix
table.
Table.4: Factor Analysis on Independent Scale Training Employee’s Response
alpha
KMO Bartlett’s
Test
Determinate
TRAINING 609 500 Sig= .000 Determinate=
.420Factor Loading
The Staff report any harmful or foreseen harmful
incidents
.712
The Staff use shortcuts to get their work done faster .816
When one staff is very busy, another staff help out .799
The Staff get the training and knowledge they need
to run the Emergency department
.902
For this scale of analysis in the hypothesis at the above table
4.15, we considered data extracted from the employees only
as data from the patients cannot be useful for this scale as
the patients might not have the professional knowledge to
understand the level of training of the employees to even be
able to give a feedback, concerning their training abilities.
So considering the data from the employees, the reliability
test has a cronbach’s alpha value of 0.609, this shows we
can rely on the data, secondly KMO value of .500 which is
acceptable as being valid for this analysis, thirdly the
Bartlett’s test significant value is .000, this shows that the
training scale in this analysis is very significant and lastly
the determinate value is .420 being above 0.00001 shows
that the data is adequate and acceptable.

Table.5: Factor Analysis for Independent Scale Skills Employee’s Response
alpha
KMO Bartlett’s
Test
Determinate
SKILLS 609 .568 Sig= .025 Determinate=
.754Factor Loading
The Staff ideas and suggestions are highly
regarded
.819
Staff are treated fairly when they make
mistakes
.752
When one staff is very busy, another staff
help out
.597
From the above table, just like the training scale where we
consider data extracted from the employees, same will be
applied here on the skills scales for the same reason. The
cronbach’s alpha value for the reliability test is .609, being
above 0.6, we can rely on the data and say it is reliable, then
we consider the KMO value, which in this case is .568
showing that there exist a pattern of correlation between the
variables and the data relatively compact as it is above the
required least value of 0.5 for a reliable data, the significant
value for the Bartlett’s test is 0.25 against an standard value
of at most 0.005, therefore we can say that for the skill
scale, its analysis might not be very significant for the
purpose of this research and lastly we look at the
determinate value which we have to be .754 here, the value
is good enough as it is above the required least value of
0.00001.
Table.6: Age Information
Frequency Percent Valid Percent Cumulative Percent
Valid 18-29 6 16.7 16.7 16.7
30-41 22 61.1 61.1 77.8
42 years and above 8 22.2 22.2 100.0
Total 36 100.0 100.0
Table 4 shows that over 60% of the employees are in the age bracket of 30-41 years, hence they are vibrant and full of energy to
participate in the training program effectively.
Table.7: Educational Level
Frequency Percent Valid Percent Cumulative Percent
Valid Secondary School 2 5.6 5.6 5.6
College 2 5.6 5.6 11.1
Tertiary 32 88.9 88.9 100.0
Total 36 100.0 100.0
The table above shows that majority of the healthcare givers
have tertiary education qualification but then in a dynamic
environment of today, this is not enough, the training and
skills acquisition will help them be updated in their
knowledge of the field, preparing them for the greater
challenge ahead.
Table.8: Working Experience
Frequency Percent Valid Percent
Cumulative
Percent
Valid below 1year 4 11.1 11.1 11.1
1-5years 12 33.3 33.3 44.4
6-10years 9 25.0 25.0 69.4
11years and above 11 30.6 30.6 100.0
Total 36 100.0 100.0

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