Status of Nursing Students About Identifying Pressure Injury Risk Factors

Abstract

Pressure injuries (PIs) still remain a problem in contemporary healthcare systems and result in complications or prolong hospital stays with increasing the healthcare costs. 1,2 As the prevalence rates of PIs vary according to patient populations, its prevalence in Turkey ranges from 2.1% to 10.4%. 3,4 According to ORİJİNAL ARAŞTIRMA ABS TRACT Objective: To explore the status of nursing students about identifying the pressure injury risk factors in a case scenario. Material and Methods: This descriptive study was carried out with 489 volunteered nursing students of a university between 5-26 May, 2017. For data collection, student information form including a case scenario was used. Students were instructed to read the case scenario carefully and write down the case-related pressure injury risk factors that they noticed. The data were evaluated using the mean, percentage, standard deviation, Mann-Whitney U, Kruskal-Wallis H and Chi-square tests. Results: The rate of students who wrote case-related risk factors was 97.75% and the mean number of case-related risk factors written by nursing students was 7.40±3.83 among 20 risk factors. Students who had additional education and training experience on pressure injury care had written significantly more case-related risk factors than who had not (p<0.05). Conclusion: Although the rate of students who wrote risk factors was high, number of case-related risk factors identified by students was found to be insufficient. Taking additional education and training about pressure injury care helped students to identify pressure injury risk factors. It is recommended to reinforce the theoretical knowledge of especially 1 st and 2 nd years nursing students about pressure injury risk factors with clinical practices.

Prediction and classification of pressure injuries by deep learning

“…Pressure injuries have a substantial impact on the affected patient, and they can be painful, become severely infected, or have a foul odor. After adjusting for age, sex, and comorbidities, it has been shown that people with pressure injuries have a lower health-related quality of life than those without pressure injuries [1,[4][5][6]17,18,[29][30][31]34,35]. It is important to perform the risk analysis of such a common and serious health problem, which can bring morbidity and mortality, and to correctly determine the staging and appropriate nursing interventions when it occurs.…”

“…The use of mobile health applications, defined as responding to healthcare services with mobile devices, is rapidly increasing. Mobile applications are also used for a wide range of detection and classification of pressure injuries [19,[32][33][34]. Shepherd et al [35] stated that the detection, staging, and treatment of pressure injuries using information technology would be more effective.…”

“…Shepherd et al [35] stated that the detection, staging, and treatment of pressure injuries using information technology would be more effective. Garcia-Zapirain et al [34] developed a mobile application for the non-contact assessment of pressure injuries and found that this application allows for staging of injuries, obtaining relevant information for diagnosis, and monitoring the progress of injuries. Fraiwan et al [32] developed a mobile application that detects body temperature and analyzes the risk of pressure injury.…”

<p>Nursing Students’ Attitudes Toward the Medical Device-Related Pressure Ulcer in Iran</p>

“…Given the importance of the issue of pressure ulcers, many previous studies have investigated the knowledge, attitude, and performance of nursing students about conventional pressure ulcers. [15][16][17][18][19] Several studies have examined the nursing students' attitudes toward conventional pressure ulcers; however, to our knowledge, no study has examined nursing students' attitudes toward medical device-related pressure ulcers. Medical device-related pressure ulcers are different from conventional pressure ulcers.…”