What do nursing students learn about pressure ulcers? A survey of content on pressure ulcers in nursing school textbooks.
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.
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D004506:Education, Nursing; D006801:Humans; D015402:Nursing Education Research; D003668:Pressure Ulcer / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000451:nursing*; D012307:Risk Factors; D013782:Textbooks as Topic