Nurses' knowledge in nursing care and treatment of burns
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Burn is one of the most painful and costly injuries to get. Burn patients need the nurse's help more than anyone else to improve. This study aims to determine how much hospital nurses know about burns, burn treatments, nursing care for burns, and their effects. The study had a quantitative descriptive design, conducted at government and non-government hospitals in the south of the West Bank, with 223 nurses. The results revealed that most nurses have inadequate knowledge of burn care, moderate knowledge of burn nurse treatment knowledge for complications, adequate knowledge of renal failure, sepsis, and shock, and adequate knowledge of deep vein thrombosis and pulmonary edema. The nurses' expertise in burn treatment and nursing was average, and their understanding of burn therapy and related hospital-based problems was also intermediate.
Keywords: Burn; burn treatment; care; nurse knowledge.
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