Nurses Knowledge about Dressing Process in Surgical Wards in Mosul Hospitals
Background and aim: Dressing is a covering or bandage applied to a wound, Bleeding cases, Open fractures and superficial burns to protect it, prevent the complication and the patient's dressings need to be changed regularly. The study aimed to identify the level of knowledge about Dressing Pr...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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College of Nursing,University of Mosul
2013-04-01
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| Series: | مجلة الموصل للتمريض |
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| Online Access: | https://mjn.mosuljournals.com/article_162913_245886f4a16f6a1e9fe8247267e5c95d.pdf |
| Summary: | Background and aim: Dressing is a covering or bandage applied to a wound, Bleeding cases, Open
fractures and superficial burns to protect it, prevent the complication and the patient's dressings need to be
changed regularly. The study aimed to identify the level of knowledge about Dressing Process among
nurses and to examine the relationship between demographic characteristics of the nurses and their
Knowledge with regard to Dressing Process.
Materials and Method: This descriptive study design as a quantitative approach was adopted through
the period from 1st of August - 2011 to the 1st of September - 2012. The sample of the study included
(140) nurses working in two hospitals in Mosul city in the center of Nineveh Governorate. In order to
collect the data, a questionnaire was constructed depending on the previous studies and related literatures.
Content validity of the questionnaire was determined by presenting the questionnaire to a panel of (15)
experts and the reliability of the study was determined by applying the tool to (20) nurses in Ibn-Sina
Teaching Hospital, while Person's Correlation Coefficient was ( r = 0.83; P.< 0.05 ).
Results: The data analysis showed that there were significant statistical relationships among some
categories of knowledge regarding Dressing Process with the attributes of the sample.
Conclusion: The study concluded that knowledge of dressing process acceptable, while gender and
enrollment in training sessions had an obvious association with nurses' knowledge.
Keywords: Nurses, Knowledge, Dressing, Surgical Wards. |
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| ISSN: | 2311-8784 2663-0311 |