Assessment of Nurses knowledge toward Postoperative Wound Care at Al-Diwaniya Teaching Hospital

Abstract

Objective: The study aims to assess nurse’s knowledge toward postoperative wound care also the discover
any link between sociodemographic characteristics concerning the knowledge nurses.
Methodology: This cross – sectional descriptive design study was carried out with 1st of March 2020 to the
1st of September - 2020. (70) staff nurses in surgical ward of Al Diwaniya Teaching Hospital. In order to
assess the nurses’ knowledge about post-operative wound care. This staff who agreement to participate and
were recruited on giving oral consent .knowledge about postoperative wound care through (38) items that
deals with .data was collected by distribution structure a self-administered questionnaire , these questionnaire
also distribution on (11) experts .while finalized on the basis of the Test- retest reliability was determined
through a uses of Pearson Correlations. (r= 0.931**).
Results: The outcomes of the search reveals, more than half 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 no relationship between awareness for nurse with sociodemographic variables.