title: Nurses' knowledge about pressure sore treatment and healing.
abstract: Although nurses are more knowledgeable about pressure score healing and treatment than expected, a small scale study found that there is still room for improvement. There appeared to be similar levels of knowledge of pressure sore healing among orthopaedic and general surgical nurses, and a strong relationship between clinical grade and knowledge, with more senior grade nurses scoring higher on a pressure sore healing and treatment score, compared to more junior nurses. This has implications for who should be performing pressure sore treatment in the clinical setting.
authors.affiliation: City Hospital NHS Trust, Birmingham.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Mockridge
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Anthony
mesh_terms: D002322:Career Mobility; D002983:Clinical Competence / Q000592:standards; D004521:Educational Measurement; D006801:Humans; D015403:Nursing Evaluation Research; D009741:Nursing Staff, Hospital / Q000193:education*; D016530:Orthopedic Nursing / Q000193:education*; D013527:Perioperative Nursing / Q000193:education*; D003668:Pressure Ulcer / Q000451:nursing* / Q000503:physiopathology; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014945:Wound Healing