Investigation and analysis on the knowledge and attitude of nurses on common complications among bedridden patients

Objective To investigate the knowledge and attitude of nurses on the prevention and nursing of common complications among bedridden patients in Wuhan City, and provide scientific basis for the implementation of targeted training in improving clinical nursing quality. Methods A total of 748 clinical nurses from 4 hospitals in Wuhan City were selected in November 2016 using convenient sampling method. A self-designed questionnaire was applied to investigate the common complications nursing knowledge and attitude of nurses on bedridden patients. Results The accuracy of nurses' knowledge on the prevention and nursing of common complications among bedridden patients were listed as follows: deep vein thrombosis (DVT) (77.44%) , pneumonia (73.88%) , urinary tract inflammation (70.63%) , and pressure ulcers (61.44%) . The scores of nurses' attitude were listed successively: pressure ulcers (88.21%) , urinary tract inflammation (86.81%) , pneumonia (86.66%) , and DVT (85.92%) . There were positive correlation between the scores of knowledge and attitude of nurses on four kinds of complications (P<0.05) . Conclusions Nursing administrators should improve the training and update of common complications knowledge on nurses, and promote their positive attitude to the prevention of common complication to increase the quality of nursing. Key words: Nursing staff; Bedridden patients; Complication; Knowledge; Attitude