Evaluation of nurse’s knowledge about prevention and nursing care of pressure ulcer / Шинэ санаа Шинэ нээлт

ABSTRACT

Background@#Pressure ulcer is the worldwide problem which does not depend on age group and any patients could suffer from. Nursing human resource, working load, hospital equipment supply, well-organized training, lack of scientific study are influencing the prevention and nursing care for patients with pressure ulcer although the prevention of ulcer’s depends on continuous nursing care. Therefore, we aimed to improve participation of nurses and evaluate knowledge of nurses on pressure ulcer.@*Methods@#Total of 249 nurses who are working in primary and referral level were chosen as study participants. We used cross-sectional study of analytic study and standard questionnaire with Likert scale. Furthermore, we operated evaluative standard questions of Pieper and Mott (PUKT; 1995), standard questions of pressure ulcer evaluation and nurse’s knowledge. All statistics analysis done by using SPSS 21.0 program.@*Results@#237 (95.2%) were females, 12 (4,8%) were males were participated in the study and 122 (49,0%) had received Diploma, 125 (50,2%) of them had received bachelor degree and 2 (0,8%) had master degrees. Furthermore, 175 of all participants were nurse practitioners and 74 of them were clinical nurse specialists. The knowledge regarding nursing care on pressure ulcer was evaluated as 2,41% were excellent, 20,88% were with average-knowledge and 76,71% were with poor-knowledge. Nurse’s knowledge regarding Evaluation of pressure ulcer were measured as 65,68% were with poor-knowledge, 33,33% were with average, and 0,8% were with excellent knowledge. Finally, knowledge about nursing care on pressure ulcer, 14,86% were evaluated as average, 85,14% were with poor-knowledge.@*Conclusion@# Most of nurse’s knowledge regarding prevention and nursing care for pressure ulcer is inadequate. Therefore, there is a need to improve nurse’s knowledge about prevention and nursing care on pressure ulcer.