Abstract
Aim: To map the interest in further education in wound management in the context of advanced nursing practice, to find out whether a nurses with certification in chronic wound management according to current legislation is desirable from the point of view of management for job creation, and to find out how management perceives legislative and working conditions of application for the performance of independent practice in the profession of nurse in the management of chronic wounds.Design. Quantitative exploratory descriprive.Participants. 48 nurses with advanced experience working with patients with chronic, non-healing or difficult to heal wounds in the position of manager working in the institutionalized or community area of healthcare.Methods. Questionnaire with own structure. Data processing by descriptive and inductive statistics program SPSS 25.0.Results. The results represent a positive level of perception of the enforcement of a nurse with advanced experience with a certificate in the management of chronic wounds to create a job position. A similar result was achieved in the perception of cooperation with a nurse with advanced experience with a certificate in the management of chronic wounds in the context of consultations. We found out that a higher level of perception was among respondents working in the community area in homecare, who are licensed to perform the duties of a professional representative.Conclusions. The self-concept of a nurse with advanced experience in the field of chronic wound management shows a positive evaluation among managers in the community area of care working in ADOS. The results of the research show the need for visibility of a certified nurse in the management of chronic wounds and its implementation and application in practice.
Highlights
We found out a positive interest in education in a certification study in chronic wound management with the second highest average (M = 4.59)
Our findings show that management perceives positive legislative and working conditions for the performance of independent practice in the profession of nurse in wound management (M = 4.52)
We found out that this issue was addressed by management in the institutionalized area of health care in Slovakia, where in 2014 in NUSCH, a.s. was launched a program for the prevention of pressure ulcers unique of its kind, which is focused on monitoring the risk factors for bedsores, their prevention and subsequent treatment by the method of wet healing
Summary
We chose a measuring instrument of our own design. The measurement tool consisted of demographic and categorical variables, and questions focused on the activities of nurses with advanced experience in wound management We chose a measuring instrument of our own design. The measurement tool consisted of demographic and categorical variables, and questions focused on the activities of nurses with advanced experience in wound management Integrity disorders, prescription of medical devices by the nurse, evidence-based research (EBN), education and communication with patients , certification study). To evaluate the points of the questionnaire, we used the Likert scale of perception from 1 (negative) to 7 (positive)
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