title: What do nursing students learn about pressure ulcers? A survey of content on pressure ulcers in nursing school textbooks.
abstract: It is assumed that during their basic preparation, nurses are provided with the knowledge and skills to predict and prevent pressure ulcers. A review of five fundamentals of nursing and five medical-surgical nursing textbooks revealed that a nursing student may be exposed to as few as 200 lines of text and 10 tables, charts, or illustrations related to pressure ulcers during a program of studies. The information contained in the textbooks tended to be dispersed over three to seven chapters, incomplete, and sometimes inaccurate.
authors.forename: T S
authors.initials: TS
authors.lastname: Vogelpohl
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Dougherty
mesh_terms: D004506:Education, Nursing; D006801:Humans; D015402:Nursing Education Research; D003668:Pressure Ulcer / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000451:nursing*; D012307:Risk Factors; D013782:Textbooks as Topic