1M.SC Nursing, Department of Medical-Surgical Nursing, Bharati Vidyapeeth (Deemed to be University), College of Nursing, Sangli
2Assistant Professor, Bharati Vidyapeeth (Deemed to be University), College of Nursing, Sangli
Online published on 2 November, 2018.
Skin care, an elementary element of fundamental care, thinks about the nature and the patient gets in healing facility. Quality care pointed averting the limiting pores and skin breakdown and pressure sores has been known together of nursing analysis need. Stress lesion may be a normal disadvantage in nursing follow and includes great fees for the sufferers yet with recognize to the medicinal offerings gain.1
To assess the knowledge & practices of staff nurses regarding Braden scale by pre-test. To evaluate the effectiveness of Planned teaching programme on knowledge and practices regarding use of Braden scale. To find out the association between pre-test knowledge scores with the selected sociodemographic variables.
A Quantitative research approach and one group pre-test post-test research design was used. 75 samples were selected as per the criteria with non-probability purposive sampling technique.
Study finding showed, shows, 6.7% staff nurses were having poor knowledge score (0–5), 13.3% have Average knowledge score (6–10), and 60% have good knowledge score (11–15) and 20% with Excellent knowledge score. Study findings shows that there is a need for in service education for nurse's improvement of knowledge and there should be maintained a safe practice regarding use of Braden scale. Every unit should have written protocols and should be reviewed regularly. Further study can be done for assessing knowledge together with the practices in large scale.
Pressure sores, Braden scale
