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What do nursing students learn about pressure ulcers? A survey of content on pressure ulcers in nursing school
Decubitus
|March 1, 1993
Abstract:
It is assumed that during their basic preparation, nurses are provided with the knowledge and skills to predict and prevent pressure ulcers. A review of five fundamentals of nursing and five medical-surgical nursing textbooks revealed that a nursing student may be exposed to as few as 200 lines of text and 10 tables, charts, or illustrations related to pressure ulcers during a program of studies. The information contained in the textbooks tended to be dispersed over three to seven chapters, incomplete, and sometimes inaccurate.