Abstract:
The wound care is of great important ,because any wound is at risk of bacterial contamination, which inhibits the healing process and prevents wound closure. Nursing play a key role in managing patient with wound and this paper aims to evaluate the effectiveness of educational program in wound care on nurses practice in kosti teaching hospital. The study used the quasi-experimental, total coverage for all nurses (N=50), whom they were work in kosti teaching hospital, the practice of nurses were evaluated by observational checklists in two phases through eight months. The collected data was analyzed by statistical package for social sciences (SPSS). the findings of the study revealed that Concerning the practical issues of study group regarding wound assessment ,wet to dry dressing and dry dressing. the study showed that nurses had poor practice only during the pre-intervention test, but this improved in post -test to include all procedures of
steps that are needed. In addition to that the study reflected, that regarding barrier to perform standard guide lines about wound care, most common barriers were lack of training (58%), Lack of facilities (54%) lack of equipment (78%). Conclusion: From finding the current study indicated that the educational programs were effective in improving practice and performance of study group, and indicated the ability of study group to assessment of the wound and applying dressing and reducing the infection of the wound
Keywords: wound , nurse ,dry dressing, wet dressing
