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ReviewInternational wound journal2025

Postoperative Wound Care Practices of Acute Care Nurses: An Integrative Review.

Gayani Priyangika Gamage, Josephine Lovegrove, Sanjeewa Seneviratne, Georgia Tobiano, Brigid Gillespie

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Review in International wound journal, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Gayani Priyangika GamageNHMRC Centre of Research Excellence in Wiser Wound Care, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Griffith University, Southport, Queensland, Australia.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9966-0126
Josephine LovegroveNHMRC Centre of Research Excellence in Wiser Wound Care, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Griffith University, Southport, Queensland, Australia.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1466-2374
Sanjeewa SeneviratneDepartment of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, University of Colombo, Colombo, Sri Lanka.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0310-1387
Georgia TobianoNHMRC Centre of Research Excellence in Wiser Wound Care, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Griffith University, Southport, Queensland, Australia.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5437-0777
Brigid GillespieNHMRC Centre of Research Excellence in Wiser Wound Care, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Griffith University, Southport, Queensland, Australia.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3186-5691

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This integrative review aimed to describe the postoperative wound care practices and knowledge of nurses in acute care settings. Whittemore and Knafl's framework was used to identify and synthesise relevant studies. Full-text, primary articles published after 2000, focusing on postoperative wound care by nurses in hospital settings, were included. Quality appraisal was undertaken using the Mixed Methods Appraisal Tool (MMAT) for qualitative and quantitative studies and the Standards for QUality Improvement Reporting Excellence (SQUIRE) 2.0 for quality improvement (QI) studies. Five databases were searched (MEDLINE, Scopus, CINAHL, Embase and Web of Science) in August 2024. Of the 5329 studies, 36 articles were included. Inductive content analysis was used for data synthesis. Three categories were identified: Variation in using a holistic approach impacts optimal wound care practice, nurses' surgical wound care practices are shaped by individual factors, organisational support, and resource availability, and nurses' participation in surgical wound care is influenced by role clarity and multidisciplinary collaboration. In conclusion, this integrative review highlights that acute care nurses predominantly focused on technical dressing procedures with limited emphasis on comprehensive assessment, documentation, nutrition and patient education. Therefore, adopting a more holistic approach in surgical wound care could minimize practice variations among nurses.

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Critical Care NursingPostoperative CareSurgical WoundFemaleHumansMaleWound Healingacute careevidence‐based practicehospitalsnursesnursing practicepostoperative periodsurgical nursingwound care

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PMID41192409
PMCPMC12588625

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