| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立成功大學 === 護理學系 === 104 === Background: The wound care knowledge is updated. Nurse need to have new evidenced knowledge to improve quality of care. Compared to community nurses, nurses in hospital had poor wound care knowledge. Limitted studies examined the level of knowledge among hospital nures in the context of wound management.
Aims and objectives: The purpose of this study is to describe the self-reported knowledge about wound management among hospital nurses in Indonesia. Two aims in this study included (1) to understand the level of knowledge about wound management among hospital nurses (2) to identify factors that may influence nurses’ knowledge about wound management.
Design: Descriptive cross-sectional survey design.
Methods: A convenience sample of 181 nurses working in Pekalongan regency, Central Java, Indonesia. Nurses who work in ICU, ED, Pediatric, Surgical, and Medical ward invited to complete a 28-item questionnaire developed by Ayello ＆ Baranoki (2014) which contained 20 questions of knowledge of wound management and 8 questions contained nurses’ perception of wound care in the facility.
Result: There were 181 nurses participated in this study. The level of knowledge among hospital nurses in this study was poor. By the average nurses in this study were able to answer 10.3 questions overall (51.5%). Gender and Education level were not influenced nurses’ knowledge in this study, while research experience and training were influenced nurses’ knowledge almost in all aspects. A multiple linear regression model has significantly explained the level of knowledge of overall wound management by 6%. The wound education training may be able to increase nurses’ knowledge of wound management (β = 0.21, p 〈 0.05) compared to nurses who never got any training. Meanwhile, the research experience may decrease nurses’ knowledge of wound management (β = -0.26, p 〈 0.01). In terms of TIME framework, surgical and Emergency nurses tend to have better knowledge related to tissue management and moisture balance but poor in the domain of epithelial advancement.
Conclusion: This study revealed the current level of knowledge of wound management among hospital nurses in Indonesia is poor. Continuing providing wound care education is recommended in order to improve nurses’ knowledge and reflects the clinical practices in wound management.
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