Assessment of Nursing Care Provided to Hospitalized Children Burn Patients at Burn and Plastic Surgery Center at Kirkuk City

Abstract

Background: Burns are the foremost important causes of a child’s injury that lead to a considerable healthproblem; social, functional, and psychological weakness. They are the leading reason of hospitalization andare associated with significant morbidity and mortality.Objectives: This study aimedto assess the quality of nursing management and to find outassociation betweennurses’ sociodemofigureic data and quality of nursing management provided to admitted children AzadiTeaching Hospital in Kirkuk city-Iraq.Method: A descriptive design (quantitative approach) was carried out from January 1st to 20th of October2020. A non-probability (purposive sample) sampling technique utilized to collect data from (48) nursesworking in burn and plastic surgery center in Azadi teaching hospital in Kirkuk city. A questionnaire wasdesigned and constructed for the purpose of the study. Statistical analysis was performed using (SPSS)software (V.26). Comparison was carried out using Chi-square (X2) and T test for determination of the P.value.Results: The study sample revealed that the majority of the sample were in age group (21-30) years oldrepresent (47.9 %), and (60.4 %) of the participants were female. The most striking results emerged fromthe data is that the majority of the participants have a good level of the practices in relation to nursingmanagement of major burns at admission (54.17%). The results also show a significant association betweenthe nurses’ practices at admission and their age, gender, number of courses training.Conclusion:Training courses have significant effects on nurses’ practices at admission. Further studies arerequired to find the effectiveness of intervention that involve nurses’ practices for children with burn injuries.