La prevención de lesiones por presiónconocimientos, actitudes y barreras de los profesionales de enfermería

Abstract

Pressure injuries (PI) are a major health problem and have important consequences for affecting life quality of life of people who suffer them. Those are being considered as adverse events in various national and international policies related to patient safety. Prevention is a key factor in the management of these injuries, where nursing professionals play a fundamental role as well as the personnel in charge of patient direct care. In the prevention that these professionals carry out there are several variables intervene: knowledge in PI prevention, attitudes and perceived barriers towards prevention. The development and validation of three updated instruments that measure these variables, the determination of the relationship between them as well as the demographic and training factors, will allow the establishment of effective interventions which will led to accurate prevention from nursing professionals.