Determination of Quality Skin Care for Children with Burns Injuries in Baghdad City Hospitals

Abstract

Aims: This study was conducted to the determine quality nursing skin care about child with burn injuries.
Methodology: Results A descriptive study design was carried out at the non Teaching Hospitals in Baghdad
City from the August 27th of 2020up to the 20th of November 2020.The study aims to determine the quality
of nursing care to provide the child with burns injury at burn units .Non probability (purposive) sample of
(70) nurses were selected from burns wards in non Teaching Hospitals in Baghdad City, and they have at
last one year of experience in burn units. The study instruments consisted of four major parts which were
constructed for the purpose of the study. First part related to nurses demographic data, the second part
related to nurse’s practices about part concerning skin care of observational checklist and composed of (16)
items. The data were collected through the using of constructed questionnaire which consists of (16) items
and filled by using observational checklist, data analyzed by using two statistical approaches: descriptive
statistical analysis frequencies, percentage, range of scores, mean of scores, and inferential statistical analysis
(correlation coefficient and chi- square test). In addition (37.1%) of the sample have acceptable scores related
to skin care provided to child with burns at burn units. Moreover, the findings also reflects that no significant
relationship between nurse’s practices and their age, gender, monthly income, number of training sessions
and place of training. However , significant relationship is found between their practices and the nurses’
level of education, and training session.
Results: table (1) shows (44.3%) of the sample (20-29) years old ,(71.4%) were male, (52.9%) were graduate
from institute of nursing ,(70.0%) their monthly income was not enough , (71.4%) of the sample have less
than 5 years of experience in burn units ,(52.9%) have training sessions related to child’s burn care , 22
(59.5%) of sample have one training sessions and place of training in burn care,19 (51.4%) trained outside
of Iraq..The finding of this table and figure indicated that (26) (37.1%) of nurses provide good skin care, (26)
(37.1%) did the care in acceptable level and (18) (25.7%)was in poor level figure 1.