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Status of Nursing Students About Identifying Pressure Injury Risk Factors
Hemşirelik Öğrencilerinin Basınç Yaralanması Risk Faktörlerini Belirleyebilme Durumları
Seher ÜNVERa, Ümmühan ARSLANb, Sibel DEMİRCİc, Hüsna CEBECİd
aTrakya University Faculty of Health Sciences, Department of Surgical Nursing, Edirne, TURKEY
bKoç University Hospital, 2B Service, İstanbul, TURKEY
cTrakya University Faculty of Health Sciences, Department of Nursing, Edirne, TURKEY
dKoç University Hospital, Emergency Service, İstanbul, TURKEY
Turkiye Klinikleri J Nurs Sci. 2020;12(1):10-8
doi: 10.5336/nurses.2019-70214
Article Language: EN
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ABSTRACT
 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 1st and 2nd years nursing students about pressure injury risk factors with clinical practices.

Keywords: Nursing students; pressure injury; risk factors
ÖZET
 Amaç: Bu çalışma, hemşirelik öğrencilerinin vaka senaryosundaki basınç yaralanması risk faktörlerini belirleyebilme durumlarını değerlendirmeyi amaçlamıştır. Gereç ve Yöntemler: Bu tanımlayıcı çalışma, 5-6 Mayıs 2017 tarihleri arasında bir üniversitenin hemşirelik bölümündeki gönüllü 489 öğrenciyle yürütüldü. Veri toplamada, vaka senaryosu içeren bir öğrenci bilgi formu kullanıldı. Öğrencilerden, vaka senaryosunu dikkatlice okumaları ve tespit ettikleri vaka-ilişkili basınç yaralanması risk faktörlerini forma yazmaları istendi. Veriler ortalama, yüzde, standart sapma, Mann-Whitney U, Kruskal-Wallis H ve Ki-kare testleri kullanılarak değerlendirildi. Bulgular: Vaka-ilişkili basınç yaralanması risk faktörü yazan öğrencilerin oranı %97,75 idi ve vakada verilen 20 farklı basınç yaralanması risk faktöründen öğrenciler tarafından yazılanların ortalaması 7,40±3,83 idi. Basınç yaralanması bakımı konusunda ders alan ve bakım deneyimi olan öğrencilerin, ders almayan ve deneyimi olmayan öğrencilerden istatistiksel olarak anlamlı derecede daha fazla vaka-ilişkili basınç yaralanması risk faktörü yazdığı belirlendi (p<0,05). Sonuç: Her ne kadar vaka-ilişkili risk faktörleri yazan öğrencilerin oranı yüksek olsa da, öğrencilerin belirlediği risk faktörlerinin sayısı yetersiz bulundu. Basınç yaralanması konusunda ek eğitim almanın ve bakım vermenin öğrencilerin basınç yaralanması risk faktörlerini belirlemelerine yardımcı olduğu görüldü. Özellikle 1. ve 2. sınıf hemşirelik öğrencilerinin basınç yaralanması risk faktörleri hakkındaki teorik bilgilerin klinik uygulamalarla pekiştirilmesi önerilir.

Anahtar Kelimeler: Hemşirelik öğrencileri; basınç yaralanması; risk faktörleri
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