Community Nurses’ views of pressure ulcer education version 1

• Research type

  Research Study

• Full title

  Community Nurses’ views of pressure ulcer prevention education and barriers to practice

• IRAS ID

  261388

• Contact name

  Dianne Rimmer

• Contact email

  d.rimmer@bangor.ac.uk

• Sponsor organisation

  Bangor University

• Duration of Study in the UK

  0 years, 8 months, 10 days

• Research summary

  Pressure ulcers continue to develop in people in the community setting which is a challenge to current District Nursing Services. With a visible gap between capacity and demand in community nursing services having an impact on the management of community nursing caseloads and evidence of less pro-active and preventative care in the community setting due to increased daily pressures, which may be contributory to high levels of pressure damage within the community setting. This study will explore the community nursing team views of pressure ulcer prevention education across the organisation and potential benefit to patients and public in prevention of pressure damage.
  Eligibility will be any registered nurse employed by the organisation and working in the community setting, including various experience, age and grade of nurse. This is Qualitative research using 2 x focus groups within community nursing, each group will be in a different county to increase representativeness an transferability of findings and to review any cultures and beliefs due to unique demographics that may provide further interesting data regarding pressure ulcer prevention education. Questions will be provided to the participants within a focus group setting arranged for approximately 1.5 hours. The recruits will be from the community nursing teams across the 2 counties. Funding will be from the university as part of a masters programme and support given from the organisation for this to happen. It is hoped that this research may highlight areas of improvement in education within the organisation that may inform current practice and benefit patients and public regarding prevention of pressure ulcer development.

• REC name

  N/A

• REC reference

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