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Elizabeth A Ayello1, Geraldine Meaney
1Division of Nursing, The Steinhardt School of Education, New York University, NY, USA.
Abstract:
Nurses enter the profession with knowledge about pressure ulcer prevention and care and acquired from their basic educational programs. A prior review of nursing textbooks regarding pressure ulcer content published almost a decade ago revealed that incomplete, inaccurate, and at times limited information (as few as 200 lines of text) was contained in 10 commonly used textbooks. A review of the updated editions of the textbooks revealed a wide variation in the number of lines of text devoted to pressure ulcers, depth and quality of information, and the number of illustrations and tables. New findings were the inclusion of cultural concepts and research studies. These findings suggest an improvement in the amount and quality of pressure ulcer information in the majority of nursing textbooks surveyed. Recommendations for future textbook chapters on pressure ulcers are provided.
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