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Nurses' Knowledge, Practice, and Attitude Regarding Burn Injury Management

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Last updated: 28 Dec 2024

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Background: Burn is bodily injury resulting from exposure to heat, electricity, or some radiations, marked by varying degrees of skin destruction and hyper anemia often with the formation of watery blisters Aim of study: to assess Nurses' Knowledge, Practice and,  Attitude, Regarding Burn Injury Management. Subjects and methods: Descriptive study. The study was conducted at three hospitals (Beni-Suef general hospital, Minia general hospital and, Minia university hospital)first and second hospital affiliated to ministry of health, the third one affiliated to ministry of higher education. Forty nurses where included in the current study sample. Three tools of data collection were used to carry out this study namely, tool 1): Structured Self-Administered Questionnaire that include two parts; part 1): demographic characteristics, and part 2): nurse's knowledge, Tool П-:  Nurses' observational checklists procedure, and Tool IП:  Structured nurse's attitude scales. Results: majority of the studied nurses (82.5%) had unsatisfactory knowledge, and, (100%) had unsatisfactory practices and negative attitude regarding burn injury management. Conclusion and recommendations: Most of nurses had shortage knowledge level, poor practice and, negative attitude due to lack of educational program, lack of training and, no update to nurse's performances so, the current study recommended that importance of   Provide continuous education and update for nurses regarding evidence based nursing practices about burn patients and, provide sufficient supplies and equipment from hospital administration for nurses to perform their practice in a high quality, safe and in efficient way

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10.21608/msnj.2021.189435

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Nurses' attitude, knowledge and, Practice, and burn injury

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Rasha

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Mohammed

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Kamel

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Clinical instructor- Technical Institute of Nursing – Beni-Suief University

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Manal

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Hassan

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Salah

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Professor of Medical Surgical Nursing Faculty of Nursing Department – Ain Shams University

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Inshrih

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Mohammed

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Roshdy

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Assistant Professor of Medical Surgical Nursing Department Faculty of Nursing - Minia University

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009

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1

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27044

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2021-06-01

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2021-04-27

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2021-06-30

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97

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103

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2537-012X

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2785-9797

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Minia Scientific Nursing Journal

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Nurses' Knowledge, Practice, and Attitude Regarding Burn Injury Management

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23 Jan 2023