How much do the Nursing Degree students of the Community of Madrid know about chronic wounds?

Abstract

SUMMARY
A wound represents the loss of skin continuity. Chronic wounds are an important cause of morbidity and mortality throughout the world, and can occur from multiple causes. Age, medicines consumed by the patient, smoking, malnu-trition, obesity, sedentary lifestyle, socio-familial situation, associated pathologies and inadequate treatment of the wound are factors that will have a negative impact on adequate healing.
The healing process is the result of a complex interaction between the patient's and the wound's factors, the treat-ment used and knowledge and skills of health professionals.
When the period of 6 weeks is exceeded, wounds begin to be considered chronic. Despite the efforts to implement scientific evidence, in nursing practice, there is still a separation between academic and clinical; This separation is mainly due to the attitude of the professional, the lack of resources and support that prevent the research from being used to make decisions in clinical practice.
The objective of this study was to assess the knowledge of nursery students about injuries. A descriptive and cross-sectional study was conducted, during the month of April 2018, among students of 4th Nursing in the Community of Madrid. An ad hoc survey was developed and disseminated by telematic means among students of public and private universities.
For the analysis of results, a descriptive statistical analysis was carried out with calculation of absolute and relative frequencies for the qualitative variables and mean with standard deviation for the quantitative variables.
The statistical study was carried out with the Access program. The students interviewed have an insufficient level of knowledge, but it would be necessary to carry out additional studies that confirm these results.