Abstract:
ABSTRACT
Background
Burn injuries remain one of the leading causes of injury
morbidity and mortality in the World Health Organization's
(WHO)
care of the burn patient begins with the initial assessment and
treatment of life-threatening injuries.
Aims: the study aimed at assessing the knowledge of nurse
regarding burn care given at military hospital
Methods: This is a descriptive cross-sectional -based study
conducted military hospital (emergency department)
during the period from April and June 2017. It included 35
nurses . Data collected through questionnaire, analyzed by
Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) and presented as
tables and figure
Results: Findings showed that all most were in the age between
23-28. And level of education (88.57%) bachelor Regarding
early assess of burn pt knowledge was good mojorty .
2third of the study sample good knowledge about name of burn
that effect only the superficial skin layers . (33.42%) of the
study sample poor knowledge about methods used to determine
the total body surface area .
Conclusion: the study recommendations knowledge was good
about early assess of burn pt .
with poor knowledge regarding methods used to determine the
total body surface area .Recommendation: The study recommendedthatfrequent
refreshing courses and encourage the nurses to increase the level
of knowledge conduct further studies related to this research
