Staging of pressure ulcers (PUs) is often inaccurate. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of a student-focused intervention to improve PU staging accuracy in nursing students.
Nursing students from two universities were included. The control group (n = 103) received a standard lecture about PUs; the intervention group (n = 55) completed a PU module, participated in Skin Day at a local hospital, and received the standard lecture. All students completed a PU staging tool to determine their staging accuracy. Scores were compared using analysis of variance.
Students in the intervention group were significantly more accurate in PU staging, especially stage II PUs and suspected deep tissue injury. Stage III PUs were the most difficult to stage for all students.
Skin Day provided students with hands-on clinical experience, which assisted them in becoming better at staging PUs. This type of experiential opportunity should be considered for all students, as accurate staging is necessary for best practice adherence. [J Nurs Educ. 2016;55(5):266-270.].
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 2. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 15 May 2016.
All research outputs
#23,942,334
of 34,365,356 outputs
Outputs from Journal of Nursing Education
#609
of 1,195 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#215,113
of 336,128 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Journal of Nursing Education
#13
of 36 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,365,356 research outputs across all sources so far. This one is in the 29th percentile – i.e., 29% of other outputs scored the same or lower than it.
So far Altmetric has tracked 1,195 research outputs from this source. They receive a mean Attention Score of 2.4. This one is in the 46th percentile – i.e., 46% of its peers scored the same or lower than it.
Older research outputs will score higher simply because they've had more time to accumulate mentions. To account for age we can compare this Altmetric Attention Score to the 336,128 tracked outputs that were published within six weeks on either side of this one in any source. This one is in the 35th percentile – i.e., 35% of its contemporaries scored the same or lower than it.
We're also able to compare this research output to 36 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 55% of its contemporaries.
