Evaluation of the Knowledge of Nursing Student for Burn Care
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- Nursing education; Burn care
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Introduction: Burn injuries are of great medical, social, and economic importance, as they have a severe impact on the life of the victim, his family, and society. They are accompanied by severe pain at the site, skin damage of varying degrees and areas leading to impaired function in the affected body area, a state of shock directly threatening life, and late effects including gross cicatrices and keloids causing disfigurement and disability. The treatment of burns and their consequences is long-term and requires specialized health care, as well as the use of expensive medical devices.
All of the above makes burn care education an essential part of the curriculum for the students majoring in “Nursing” at the Medical University - Pleven. Burn care is partially covered in 4 disciplines - Surgery, Anesthesiology and resuscitation, Operative and dressing techniques, and Nursing care for patients with surgical diseases. Each allocates one hour of lectures and at least two hours of exercises on this subject. Discovering theoretical and practical gaps in the training of students in the “Nursing” specialty related to the provision of timely and adequate care for burns will help to supplement and improve the knowledge and skills within the regular training of the students.
Purpose: To evaluate knowledge about burn disease and the readiness of nursing students to participate in care for these patients.
Methods: A survey with 19 questions for burn management was performed with 112 nursing students from Medical University-Pleven, Bulgaria, in February 2023. Statistical analysis was performed with IBM SPSS v26 using descriptive and nonparametric methods. Плaн – пpoeктът нa нayчнoтo изcлeдвaнe и aнкeтнaтa кapтa зa cтyдeнтитe ca oдoбpeни oт Кoмиcиятa пo eтикa нa нayчнo-изcлeдoвaтeлcкaтa paбoтa пpи MУ – Плeвeн.
Results: First to fourth-year students correctly define burn as a disease. All students know the medications used to treat burns. Second- and third-year students are more informed about the preferred medications in treating severe burns than first- and fourth-year students, which is a statistically significant difference. 80% of the respondents correctly indicated the critical hours in treating patients with extensive burns.
Conclusion: The burns are relatively well covered in our current curriculum. Still, some reinforcement is needed in practical aspects, especially in the fourth year of nursing education.
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TY - CONF AU - Stela Dyulgerova AU - Strahil Strashilov AU - Eleonora Mineva-Dimitrova AU - Pencho Tonchev PY - 2023 DA - 2023/10/03 TI - Evaluation of the Knowledge of Nursing Student for Burn Care BT - Proceedings of the Second International Nursing Conference "Nursing Profession in the Current Era" (INC 2023) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 222 EP - 232 SN - 2468-5739 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-94-6463-248-4_19 DO - 10.2991/978-94-6463-248-4_19 ID - Dyulgerova2023 ER -