Abstract
Background: Nurse practitioners play a vital role in wound care and management because of the prevalence of wounds in the community and hospital setting. Aims and objectives: The purpose was to identify current knowledge and practices of nurses with respect to wound management. Method: A qualitative descriptive research was designed, nineteen nurses in wound care wards in Bingham University teaching hospital were recruited into this study. This was achieved with the aid of a self-administered questionnaire for a two-week period. Results: Three groups of nurses responded to this survey (73.7% males; 31.6% aged 31-40 years). Registered nurses dominated (68.4%), majority of them worked in male ward (36.8%) and private ward (36.8%). Almost on full-time (94.7%), more than half were diploma holders (57.9%) with 1 to 5 years of experience (47.4%). Majority (84.2%) were involved in wound treatment and management, there were significant association between years of experience and wound classification, wound treatment, treatment failure and treatment failure factors. Conclusion: Wound care practices require accurate knowledge and assessment skills, a better understanding of wound management provides comprehensible, rapid patient wound care and minimizes patient mortality as well as reduces health services financial costs.
Highlights
The relationship between people's living conditions and their health status was established within the first decades of the 19th century
To assess whether there is a relationship between the level of triage and the social class of patients who attend the emergency department and whether there are other variables that can modulate this association
The percentage of patients with lower social class who attended the emergency department for minor reasons was 42% higher compared to the rest of the patients (RR = 1.42; 1.21-1.67 95% CI, p
Summary
The relationship between people's living conditions and their health status was established within the first decades of the 19th century. The analysis of health problems using the so-called social and economic determinants approach is a central issue for the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Ministries of Health of several countries [2]. It is well known that health and disease are related to the standard of living of the population. The relationship between social status, health condition, and the use of health care resources is a growing field of interest. Its importance is supported by the existence of multiple reports such as the Black Report 1980. This was the first relevant study that related social status with ill-health and, to mortality
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