Article: Evaluation of surgical nurses’ knowledge and attitudes towards pressure ulcer prevention
Year Published: July 2024
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Discuss the research question or main problem discussed in the study?
ReplyDeleteThe primary research question of this study is to determine the attitudes and knowledge associated with surgical nurses in the prevention of pressure ulcers. Many articles and research analysis are focused on the floor stuff such as intensive care unit, telemetry and medical surgical units to ensure proper prevention post-surgery, upon admission and during duration of stay of a patient to prevention and heal pressure injury formation. By observing and better educating surgical nurses in early onset of pressure ulcer prevention, patients will hope to have better outcomes related to skin prevalence and decrease ulcer formation. It is hope to be found the rate of pressure ulcer formation decreases especially in the elderly population where pressure ulcers are most observed.
Discuss the limitations of the article: limited sample size, design flaws, and/or author bias.
There are several limitations that are found within this study. First, the study results are based on the nurses' self-report which can pose a problem for bias or skewed data because it is developed from opinions rather than facts. Secondly, the results are developed on the nurses based in one hospital located in Turkey. Therefore, different education levels, certifications, training will be different as compared to the United States nursing staff. Also, when basing information on one hospital it is likely to have bias or be inaccurate because there is no other information to compare it to whether the location of the hospitals is in the same state, country, etc. A broader sample size would need to be used to develop accuracy of results.
1. Discuss the sample size used in the study?
ReplyDeleteA sample size of 203 nurses voluntarily participated in this study. The study comprises of nurses working in the surgical clinic (general surgery, cardiovascular surgery, thoracic surgery, orthopedics, ear, nose and throat, opthalmology, plastic surgery, urology, neurosurgery) and surgical intensive care units of Pamukkale University Hospital in Turkey.
The criteria to be included in the sample: Nurses need to be 18 years old; the nurses need to volunteer to participate in the research and the nurses need to work as a surgical nurse for at least 6 months.
Nurses that work in the same hospital for less than 1 year and nurses that work as supervisors are excluded from the sample.
2. Discuss the research questions or main problem discussed in the study?
The questions to examine the knowledge and attitudes of surgical nurses towards pressure ulcers (PU) prevention and to reveal the relationships between the level of knowledge and attitudes are the research questions discussed in the study.
The study shows that the PU knowledge level of surgical nurses was low. The low level of knowledge can lead to adverse patient outcomes which reflect that nurses have educational needs on this topic.
In this study, surgical nurses had a positive attitude towards PU but it was not at the desired level. Possible reasons for this include high nursing workloads, limited time allocated for patient care, a lack of knowledge about risk factors and low awareness of issue.