“A descriptive study to assess the knowledge regarding skin banking among student nurses in selected college in Namakkal District, Tamilnadu”

Burn's care is a great challenge to the healthcare professionals. In such situations the donor skin comes as a great success for large burns. The skin bank is a valuable resource in providing cadaveric allograft skin. Lack of awareness becomes a major obstacle for donor skin and shortage of donor skin in skin banking.

The aim of the descriptive study is to assess the knowledge regarding Skin Banking among Student Nurses at Vivekananda College of Nursing Elayampalayam. A sample of 30 student Nurses from III year B.sc Nursing were selected based on purposive sampling technique. The objectives of the study were to assess the knowledge regarding skin Banking among III year B.sc Nursing students. The data were collected by using semi structured Knowledge questionnaires.

The analysis reveals that, out of 30 student nurses 25(83%) had inadequate level of knowledge, 5(17%) had moderate level of knowledge and none of them had adequate level of knowledge regarding skin banking. There was no significant relationship between level of knowledge score and selected demographic variables of student nurses such as Age, Gender, Religion, Residence, Type of family, Income per month, Educational status, Aware of skin banking, Source of information, Registered for organ donation, Have donar card.

The findings of the study indicate that there is a lack of sufficient knowledge of skin banking and shortage of banked skin will be solved by raising the willingness of the population to donate skin in skin banking.