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Metas de Enfermería

Metas de Enfermería

NOVIEMBRE 2006 N° 9 Volumen 9

Nursing performance in the management of wound infection

Section: Featured Articles

How to quote

San Martín Aparicio M, López Merino P, Ballesteros Álvaro AM, Trigueros Aguado P. Actuación enfermera en el manejo de la infección de las heridas. Metas de Enferm nov 2006; 9(9): 67-71

Authors

Montserrat San Martín Aparicio1, Pilar López Merino2, Antonio Manuel Ballesteros Álvaro, Pilar Trigueros Aguado4

Position

Licenciada en Psicología. Diplomada en Enfermería. Hospital General “Río Carrión”, Palencia.1, Diplomada en Enf

Contact address

Plaza Padres Dominicos, 5, 3ºA. 34005 Palencia.

Contact email: pilartrigueros@ono.com

Abstract


Objective: to determine the nursing management of silver dressings for infected wounds in a healthcare area of Palencia.
Material and method: cross-sectional descriptive study. The study population was composed by all the nursing professionals that practiced nursing in the different public and private institutions in Palencia. Data collection was carried out by means of an 8 item closed questions and one open question item questionnaire.
Results: when faced with a patient with an infected wound, 60% of the nurses referred the patient to a doctor for prescription of antibiotics and 23% (n=31) cleaned the wound with a local antibiotic. 60% manifested not to know about silver dressings and 77% of those who did use this material, classified it as a very good
product.
Conclusions: the data show the enormous confusion there is regarding the management of moist vs dry clean wound care, prophylaxis, antiseptics and antibiotics, as well as the lack of criteria to establish appropriate nursing care for these lesions.

Keywords:

infection; silver dressings; wounds; dry wound care; moist wound care

Versión en Español

Título:

Actuación enfermera en el manejo de la infección de las heridas