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Practice on pressure ulcer prevention among nurses in selected public hospitals, Tigray, Ethiopia.
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- A systematic review of nurses' practice and related factors toward pressure ulcer prevention.International wound journal · 2023Pooled it
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- Nurses' Clinical Decision-Making About Pressure Injury Prevention in Hospital Settings: A Scoping Review.Journal of advanced nursing · 2025Article
- Investigation of Nurse's Pressure Ulcer Management Self-Efficacy Status and Influencing Factors: A Cross-Sectional Study.International wound journal · 2025Article
- Nurses' Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices in Pressure Injury Prevention: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- A national cross-sectional study on the knowledge and attitude of nurses towards prevention of pressure injury and their relationship with its prevalence.BMC nursing · 2025Article
- Transforming care: a study on physicians' awareness, attitudes, and barriers to pressure injury prevention in medical wards in Jordan.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
- Determining the frequency of pressure ulcers incidence and associated risk factors in critical care patients: A 3-year retrospective study.International wound journal · 2024Article
- Validation of ELPO-PT: A Risk Assessment Scale for Surgical Positioning Injuries in the Portuguese Context.Nursing reports (Pavia, Italy) · 2024Article
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- Critical care nurses' knowledge, attitudes, and practices of pressure injury prevention in China: A multicentric cross-sectional survey.International wound journal · 2023Article
- Nurses' Knowledge Concerning Prevention and Treatment of Pressure Ulcers.Advances in experimental medicine and biology · 2023Article
- Students' knowledge, attitude and practices towards pressure ulcer prevention and management.Health SA = SA Gesondheid · 2023Article
- Psychometric Properties of the Taiwanese Pressure Ulcer Management Self-Efficacy Scale in Nursing Practice.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
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- Preventive Measures For pressure injuries: structure of social representations of nursing teams.Revista da Escola de Enfermagem da U S P · 2022Article
- Intensive Care Nurses' Knowledge, Attitude, and Practice of Pressure Injury Prevention in China: A Cross-Sectional Study.Risk management and healthcare policy · 2021Article
- Development and validation of the Pressure Injury Prevention Barriers questionnaire in hospital nurses in Spain.BMJ open · 2020Article
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Abstract
objectivesPressure ulcers are localized cellular damages to the skin and underlying tissues caused by pressure, shearing and frictional force. The aim of this study is to assess practices towards pressure ulcer prevention among nurses in the Central Zone of Tigray, Ethiopia, from September 10, 2017 to June 15, 2018. This study has also identified the major barriers that hamper nurses from preventing pressure ulcers. These barriers were heavy workload, inadequate training, and lack of universal guideline and shortage of resource. 17.2% of the participants had a good practice and 82.2% of the respondents had a poor practice of pressure ulcer prevention.
resultFinding of this study showed that respondents have inadequate knowledge which may have led to their poor practice towards pressure ulcer prevention. Immediate intervention should be done on public hospitals of central Tigray to improve nurses' practice towards pressure ulcer prevention.
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