Here - EWMA 2013

POSTER: EDUCATION
Poster: Education
P 295
Journal clubs for nurses’ and nursing students’ collaborative
learning of wound care
Leena Jalonen 1 , Camilla Laaksonen 2 , Marja Härmälä 2 , Hannele Paltta 2 ,
Marjale von Schantz 2 , Taina Soini 1 , Minna Ylönen 1
1 Turku Municipal Social Services and Health Care Department (Turku, Finland);
2 Turku University of Applied Sciences (TUAS), the faculty of health care (Turku, Finland).
Background: Delivering evidence based wound care requires continuous education,
collaborative discussion and right attitudes. Journal clubs have been suggested as
methods to promote these factors.
Aim: The purpose of the abstract is to describe how collaborative journal clubs between
nurses and nursing students can be utilized to promote evidence based wound care.
Method: A six phased journal club model was implemented: 1. nurses define a clinical
question, 2. nursing students conduct a literature search to answer the question, 3.
students evaluate the quality of the identified references, 4. students prepare a written
paper based on the selected references, 5. nurses read the paper and reflect their
practice and developing needs based on their previous knowledge, experience and the
content of the paper, 6. nurses´ and students´ collaborative journal club meetings. The
participants consisted of nurses working in home care and nursing students attending a
home care –study module in spring 2012.
Results: As a result of the six phased journal club, the nurses´ and nursing students
produced collaboratively a poster describing the main features of evidence based wound
care. The poster was cross checked by the first author and approved by the NÄYTKÖ
–steering group to be used and further tested as teaching material for nurses and
students.
Conclusion: Collaborative journal clubs for nurses’ and nursing students’ can be
implemented and may promote learning, discussion, motivation and attitudes essential
for evidence based wound care. Further testing of the poster as a teaching material and
learning of wound care is recommended.
P 296
Poster: Education
WOUND CARE KNOWLEDGE AMONG HOSPITAL AND HOME CARE NURSES
– A COMPREHENSIVE CROSS SECTIONAL STUDY
Kian Zarchi 1 , Vibeke Haugaard 1 , Ida CR Hjalager 1 , Gregor BE Jemec 1
1 Department of Dermatology, Roskilde Hospital (Roskilde, Denmark).
Aim: To investigate the level of wound care knowledge among hospital and home care
nurses.
Method: A 26-item questionnaire was developed by experienced wound care specialists
based on the literature review of the current evidence-based medicine. All questions
were designed to assess the level of knowledge on subjects required to manage wound
optimally. Sixteen items concerned basic wound therapy, 7 examined the ability to
recognize cardinal symptoms and conducting relevant examinations and 3 concerned
pathogenesis. All questions were of multiple choice-type, offering 5 options and only one
correct answer.
Results: One hundred and thirty seven nurses participated in the study, of which 73
worked at hospitals, representing 15 different wards, and 64 worked in home care
settings. We subdivided the hospital nurses into those working in a department with an
advanced wound care clinic such as the Department of Dermatology or the Department
of Plastic Surgery and those without. Of the 73 nurses, working at hospitals, 11 worked
in departments with an advanced wound care clinic. As expected, the hospital nurses
working in the departments with an advanced wound clinic had the highest percentage
of correct answers (94%). However, home care nurses had more correct answers (78%)
compared to the hospital nurses in general departments (66%). The differences between
the three groups were statistically significant (Kruskal Wallis test: p