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Abstract
A pressure ulcer is an injury to the skin that occurs when a patient lies or sites too long in the same position, while nurses are at the forefront of predicting peoples at risk for pressure ulcer development. The aim: to evaluate effect of pressure ulcer guidelines on nurses’ performance and patients’ outcomes. Methodology: Setting: conducted in Suez Canal University hospitals at Neurosurgery and Neuropsychiatric department. A quasi-experimental research design was used in this study. Subject: a convenient sample of 27 nurses and purposive sample of 52 patients. Tools: Self-administrating questionnaire was used to assess nurses’ knowledge regarding prevention and management of pressure ulcer, observational checklists was used to assess nurses’ practice regarding prevention and management of pressure ulcer and patients’ assessment was used to assess the effect of interventional guidelines on healing level of pressure ulcer. Result: There was statistical significant correlation between total practice score and total knowledge scores among the studied nurses at post guidelines implementation as well as there was statistical significance between the studied nurses’ performance as knowledge score at phase of pre guidelines implementation and the patient outcomes score through pressure ulcer scale for healing score at 5th evaluation with P value 0.026. Conclusion: All of the studied nurses had an improvement of satisfactory level of knowledge and practice regarding pressure ulcer prevention and management throughout the educational program phases. Recommendation: Replication of the study on a larger probability sample selected from different geographical areas in Egypt is recommended to obtain more generalizable data.