Assessment of the Nurse's knowledge in Pre and Post Applying Education Program up on Postoperative Wound Care at Al-Diwaniya Teaching Hospital

Abstract

Background:- Postoperative wound care is the primary and important aspect of the progression of surgical wound healing stages, as well as the primary prevention of wound infection.

Objective: - The study aims to assess nurse’s knowledge- pre and post -operative wound care and to find out the relationship between demographic characteristics with the knowledge nurses.

MethodologyA quasi-experimental design study has been carried out in   adopted through the period from 1st of March 2020 to the 1st of September - 2020. The sample of the study included (50) nurses working in surgical ward of Al Diwaniya Teaching Hospital. In order to assess the nurses' knowledge about pre and   post-operative wound care. The instrument depended in the study composed of two parts: Part one- included (6) items which focus on demographic characteristics of the nurse such as (Age, Gender, Years of experience, Educational level, Hospital, Number of Training sessions). Part two: included (38) items   concerns general knowledge about pre and   post-operative wound care. Content validity of the questionnaire was determined by presenting the questionnaire to a panel of (11) experts and the reliability of the study was determined by applying the tool to (10) nurses in Al Diwaniya Teaching Hospital, while Person's Correlation Coefficient was (r = 0.931 **).The data was collected using self-administered questionnaire and it was entered, cleaned and analysed using SPSS version 23.

Results:- The findings of the study reveals that, more than half of the nurses (54 %) at the age between 20 -28 years old. Concerning to gender results of study showed half of the study sample (50%) were female and (50%) of study sample were male. Most of them (60%) were single and reminder was married. Regarding to their educational status, majority (50%) of the nurses was secondary nursing school degree holders, (28%) of the nurses had up to diploma nursing holder and( 22%) of the nurses were BSc degree holders. As regard their years of experience it was found that nearly three quarter of the nurses (72%) were5 to 10 years. The majority of studied nurses (86%) had participated in training course. Twenty six (52%) of the nurses had high level of knowledge regarding postoperative wound care, following by (30%) of total participants had moderate knowledge, finally few number of study participants (18%) were had poor knowledge. The finding of study demonstrated there is no significant association between nurse’s knowledge and sociodemographic variables.

Conclusions:- highly effectviness of education program in nurses’ knowledge regarding postoperative wound care. The findings of the study found the association between nurse’s level of knowledge and demographic characteristic was not statistically significant.

Recommendations:-. The study recommended the hospital administrators and professionals need to conduct continuous nursing education and training programs to enhance nurses’ knowledge regarding postoperative wound care.