Instructor, Department of Fundamentals of Nursing, College of Nursing, University of Basra, Basra-Iraq
A descriptive study was carried out at the surgical wards of Al-Sadder Teaching Hospital started from 2th August to 2th December, 2016. The study aims to asses nurse's practice concerning postoperative wound care, and to identifying the relationship between nurse's practice and their demographic characteristic.
A Purposive “non-probability” sample consisting of (25) nurses was selected from Al-Sadder Teaching Hospital. The data were collected through the use of direct observation, which comprised of (19) items as mean of data collection. The data were analyzed through the application of descriptive statistical analysis that include frequency and percentage, the application of inferential statistics that including the mean of score, and Chi-square test.
The majority of the nurses were males (60%), with age group (25–29) years old (28%), nursing institute graduate (48%), the majority of nurses have than less (1–5) years of experience (44%). The result indicated that there were no significant associations between the nurse's gender, age, level of education and their practice. There were significant associations between the nurse's years of experience and their practice.
The results demonstrated a practice deficit in the most items of post-operative clean wound care for patient in surgical units.
Special training sessions should be designed and presented to these nurses, developing assessment sheet for skills and daily nursing note for post-operative wound care.
Nurses Practice, Concerning Postoperative, Clean Wound dressing
