Hubungan Pengetahuan dengan Sikap Perawat tentang Aplikasi Modern Dressing di Ruang Rawat Inap Bedah Rumah Sakit Immanuel Bandung

Abstract

The incidence of injuries is increasing every year, both acute wounds and chronic wounds, therefore nurses are required to have adequate knowledge and skills related to the wound care process starting from a comprehensive assessment, planning appropriate interventions, implementing actions, evaluation of the results found during treatment and systematic documentation of results (Agustina, 2009 in Sinaga, 2011). Knowledge of nurses in the surgical inpatient ward of the hospital. Immanuel regarding modern dressing is still very limited because of the minimal exposure to modern dressing and rarely do or apply modern dressing. The results of observations also showed that some room nurses were wrong in applying modern dressings. The method used is descriptive quantitative with a cross sectional approach. The results showed that half of the respondents had a good level of knowledge about the application of  modern dressing as many as 15 people (50%), most of the respondents were in a supportive attitude about the application of modern dressing as many as 17 respondents (56.67%). The results of the data analysis of the relationship between knowledge and nurses' attitudes statistically using the Chi-Square test showed 2 cells (33.3%) with an expected count < 5 and a Pearson chi-square p value = 0.021 obtained a p value of < (0.05). So it can be concluded that there is a significant relationship between knowledge and nurses' attitudes about the application of modern dressings in the surgical inpatient ward of the hospital. Immanuel Bandung. It is expected to increase nurses' knowledge about the application of modern dressings by holding woundcare general and about the application of modern dressings in particular to their nurses