Evaluation of performance , attitude and its relationship with pressure injuries in intensive care unit nurses in educational hospitals of Qazvin university of medical sciences

Introduction: Prevention and care of pressure injuries is one of the main duties of nurses working in intensive care units. Nurses performance on pressure injuries can be influenced by their attitude. However, there are limited studies in this regard. Therefore, this study aimed to evaluate the performance and its relationship with the attitude of intensive care nurses regarding pressure injury.Methods: This descriptive-analytical study was performed in the intensive care units of Qazvin University of Medical Sciences in 1398. The sample size was 120 persons who were selected as available. Nurses Attitude Questionnaire Attitude to Prevention of pressure Injury Prevention designed by Moore et al, With 11 questions was used. Also, the performance of each nurse was evaluated 3 times by pressure injury using observation method. Observations began each time from the beginning of a shift and continued until the end of the shift. For this purpose, a checklist of Quality of Nursing Care in pressure Injury with 86 items classified in 6 field was used.Results: The mean score of nurses performance regarding prevention and care of patients at risk or suffering from pressure injury was 71.4 with a standard deviation of 13.5. The highest and lowest mean scores were in the areas of skin assessment and skin care in high risk patients , respectively. The mean score of nurses attitude toward pressure was 25.26 with a deviation of 5.1. The results of Pearson correlation test showed a significant and direct relationship between the mean score of performance in relation to prevention and care in pressure and the mean score of nurses attitude to prevention of pressure (r=0.26, p=0.005).Conclusion: Intensive care nurses in the present study had relatively favorable performance and a relatively positive attitude toward pressure injury. In addition, people with a more positive attitude had a higher quality of performance.

Keywords:

pressure injury , attitude , nursing care , performance