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KMID : 1033320130030020045
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Global Health & Nursing
2013 Volume.3 No. 2 p.45 ~ p.53
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The Effect of Pressure Ulcer Education among Nurses
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Park Soon-Mi
Min Ji-Seon
Jun Seong-Sook
Jeong Ihn-Sook
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Abstract
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Purpose: This study was aimed to investigate the effect of systematic pressure ulcer(PU) education on the PU care knowledge, adherence to PU risk assessment, and PU occurrence.
Methods: This study adopted prospective one group experimental study design. The participants were staff nurses(242 for pre-education period and 239 for post-education period) and inpatients(2,808 for pre-education period and 3,106 for post-education period). One-hour PU education was provided by a wound care nurse to all nurses. Data collection was done with structured questionnaire and checklist.
Results: Average PU care knowledge increased from 29.5 to 30.6 points(p<.001). Adherence to PU risk assessment also increased from 41.8 to 100 percent(p<.001). PU incidence per patient decreased from .96 to .89 pr 100 patients, which was statistically insignificant.
Conclusions: One-hour PU education was helpful to improve the PU care knowledge and adherence to PU risk assessment, but it could not lead to decrease the PU occurrence. We recommend nurses utilized this PU education program, and also recommend further studies to see the effect of PU education provided repeatedly and longer than 1 hour on decreasing PU occurrence.
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KEYWORD
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Pressure ulcer, Education, Risk assessment, Knowledge, Incidence
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