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Wound Care Self-Efficacy Assessment of Italian Registered Nurses and Wound Care Education in Italian Nursing Education System: A Cross-Sectional Study

Wounds are a major public health challenge for nurses, and poor wound care has important implications for patients and health care systems. The aim of this study is to assess the Italian registered nurses’ (RNs) perception in the area of wound care, regarding their knowledge, tasks of care delivery,...

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Autores principales: Ielapi, Nicola, Costa, Davide, Peluso, Antonio, Nobile, Carmelo, Venditti, Veronica, Bevacqua, Egidio, Andreucci, Michele, Bracale, Umberto Marcello, Serra, Raffaele
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9506369/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36135986
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nursrep12030067
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author Ielapi, Nicola
Costa, Davide
Peluso, Antonio
Nobile, Carmelo
Venditti, Veronica
Bevacqua, Egidio
Andreucci, Michele
Bracale, Umberto Marcello
Serra, Raffaele
author_facet Ielapi, Nicola
Costa, Davide
Peluso, Antonio
Nobile, Carmelo
Venditti, Veronica
Bevacqua, Egidio
Andreucci, Michele
Bracale, Umberto Marcello
Serra, Raffaele
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description Wounds are a major public health challenge for nurses, and poor wound care has important implications for patients and health care systems. The aim of this study is to assess the Italian registered nurses’ (RNs) perception in the area of wound care, regarding their knowledge, tasks of care delivery, wound management, values, and attitudes, exploring also the previous specific education received during nursing education. An observational online web-based survey was used to assess learning goals and content for wound care education in undergraduate nursing education and the skills and level of self-efficacy in this area during clinical practice. The data were collected between April and May 2022. A total of 210 RNs were interviewed and divided into five national geographic areas. Northwestern RNs showed a better education about the wound care area during university courses: the rate of RNs that did not receive any training in the wound care area was lower than in other Italian geographical areas. Southern RNs presented a better knowledge about factors that expose the wound to becoming chronic, wound drains care, and the ability to assess diabetic foot. This study showed that, in Italy, education in wound care among nursing students is relatively poor, and many skills are achieved during an RN’s career in an empirical way.
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spelling pubmed-95063692022-09-24 Wound Care Self-Efficacy Assessment of Italian Registered Nurses and Wound Care Education in Italian Nursing Education System: A Cross-Sectional Study Ielapi, Nicola Costa, Davide Peluso, Antonio Nobile, Carmelo Venditti, Veronica Bevacqua, Egidio Andreucci, Michele Bracale, Umberto Marcello Serra, Raffaele Nurs Rep Article Wounds are a major public health challenge for nurses, and poor wound care has important implications for patients and health care systems. The aim of this study is to assess the Italian registered nurses’ (RNs) perception in the area of wound care, regarding their knowledge, tasks of care delivery, wound management, values, and attitudes, exploring also the previous specific education received during nursing education. An observational online web-based survey was used to assess learning goals and content for wound care education in undergraduate nursing education and the skills and level of self-efficacy in this area during clinical practice. The data were collected between April and May 2022. A total of 210 RNs were interviewed and divided into five national geographic areas. Northwestern RNs showed a better education about the wound care area during university courses: the rate of RNs that did not receive any training in the wound care area was lower than in other Italian geographical areas. Southern RNs presented a better knowledge about factors that expose the wound to becoming chronic, wound drains care, and the ability to assess diabetic foot. This study showed that, in Italy, education in wound care among nursing students is relatively poor, and many skills are achieved during an RN’s career in an empirical way. MDPI 2022-09-18 /pmc/articles/PMC9506369/ /pubmed/36135986 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nursrep12030067 Text en © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Ielapi, Nicola
Costa, Davide
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Nobile, Carmelo
Venditti, Veronica
Bevacqua, Egidio
Andreucci, Michele
Bracale, Umberto Marcello
Serra, Raffaele
Wound Care Self-Efficacy Assessment of Italian Registered Nurses and Wound Care Education in Italian Nursing Education System: A Cross-Sectional Study
title Wound Care Self-Efficacy Assessment of Italian Registered Nurses and Wound Care Education in Italian Nursing Education System: A Cross-Sectional Study
title_full Wound Care Self-Efficacy Assessment of Italian Registered Nurses and Wound Care Education in Italian Nursing Education System: A Cross-Sectional Study
title_fullStr Wound Care Self-Efficacy Assessment of Italian Registered Nurses and Wound Care Education in Italian Nursing Education System: A Cross-Sectional Study
title_full_unstemmed Wound Care Self-Efficacy Assessment of Italian Registered Nurses and Wound Care Education in Italian Nursing Education System: A Cross-Sectional Study
title_short Wound Care Self-Efficacy Assessment of Italian Registered Nurses and Wound Care Education in Italian Nursing Education System: A Cross-Sectional Study
title_sort wound care self-efficacy assessment of italian registered nurses and wound care education in italian nursing education system: a cross-sectional study
topic Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9506369/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36135986
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nursrep12030067
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