Knowledge of the nursing team on pressure ulcer prevention

Autor: Nariani Souza Galvão, Maria Alice Barbosa Serique, Vera Lúcia Conceição de Gouveia Santos, Paula Cristina Nogueira
Jazyk: English<br />Spanish; Castilian<br />Portuguese
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Zdroj: Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem, Vol 70, Iss 2, Pp 294-300
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1984-0446
0034-7167
DOI: 10.1590/0034-7167-2016-0063
Popis: ABSTRACT Objective: describe and analyze the nursing team's knowledge about classification, evaluation and measures to prevent pressure ulcers (PU) in patients hospitalized in the ICU of a teaching hospital in the city of Manaus. Method: a descriptive and exploratory study was conducted after approval by a research ethics committee. Data were collected using a validated instrument. The study sample was made up of 40 nursing staff members, of whom 14 were nurses and 26 were nursing technicians/aides. Data were analyzed through descriptive statistics and Student's t-test, with value of p
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