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Survey Of Nurses’ Knowledge About Surgical Wound Care And Its Complications And The Knowledge Of Wound Dressings

2017; Elsevier BV; Volume: 20; Issue: 9 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1016/j.jval.2017.08.1752

1524-4733

M. Ferenczy, BARANYAI BALINT, A. Pakai, Dorina Pusztai, I Boncz, L Szabó, Andrea Horváth, A. Oláh,

Pressure Ulcer Prevention and Management

The rapid and extraordinary advances of medicine felt the impact in many areas of wound care consequently many treatment material and wound dressing appeared on the market. Thus we witness of a significant improvement in several areas of wound healing. Multicentre studies related to wound care made in the 20th century which are integral parts of today's wound care protocols. My research aims to assess the nurses' knowledge of the affected departments about management of surgical wounds, complications and phases of wound healing as well as intelligent dressings. The quantitative and retrospective study was made between 1st of December, 2015 and 30th of January, 2016 with a non-randomly sampling of experts and self-made questionnaire. Main groups of the questionnare are about sociodemographic, knowledge of surgical wounds, complications and dressings. The target group is the registered nurses from ear-nose-throat, traumatology, obstetrics and gynecology and general surgical departments of Kanizsai Dorottya Hospital in Nagykanizsa (n=85). Descriptive statistic and χ2 test (p<0.05) was used in Microsoft Office Excel. There was no significant difference between the education of nurses and the knowledge about the wound dressings (p=0.07) however significance was among the daily nursing work and knowledge of intelligent dressings (p<0.01). No greater knowledge about phases of wound healing was observed among those who perform wound care in their daily work (p=0.14) but more knowledge about the order of wound care of primary healing wounds (p<0.01). The nurses' knowledge about smart dressings was higher who received training before applying the bandage (p<0.01). General knowledge of nurses surveyed is deficient which need to be improved to ensure safe patient care. Information source must be available and accessible. Organization of training courses would be effective to broaden their professional knowledge.