Volume : III, Issue : VIII, August - 2014

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Objective(s): The study aimed to evaluation of nurses’ practices concerning isolation techniques for patients with burns in burns ward, and to find out the relationship between the nurse’s practices and the demographic characteristics that includes (age, gender, level of education, years of experience in burns wards, and training session). Methodology: A descriptive study was carried out at the isolation rooms at burns wards in Baghdad Teaching Hospitals. A non–probability (purposive) sample of (50) nurses, was selected out of five teaching hospitals in Baghdad city. The study instrument consisted of two major parts was constructed. It is based on the review of literature. First it is concerned with demographic data for nurses; and the second part is observational tool (checklist) is composed of two sections in which there were (95) items. Reliability and validity of the observational checklist were determined through the analysis of a pilot study. Data were collected through the use of the observational tool. Starting from Nov. 14th 2013 up to the 16th of Apr. 2014.which analyzed through the use of two statistical approaches. They are descriptive statistical analysis (frequencies, percentage, SD, Range of scores, mean of scores and relative sufficiency; and inferential statistical analysis (correlation coefficient and chi– square test). Results: The finding of study reveals that the evaluation of relative sufficiency was low on 32 (33.7%) items, moderate on 25 (26.3%) items and high on 8 (8.4%) items, while 30 (31.6%) was out of comparison and there is no significant association between ages, gender, level of education and nurses’ practices scores, while there is significant association between years of experience in burns wards, training sessions and nurses’ practices scores. Conclusion: The study concluded that the more years of work with the nurses working in the field care of patients with isolated burns increased their excellent performance in the provision of care for burn patients isolated. Recommendations: the researcher recommends establishing new standard checklist suitable for nurses’ practices concerning isolation techniques for patients with burns and increase the educational level of the staffing nursing.

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, PARIPEX-INDIAN JOURNAL OF RESEARCH : Volume-2 | Issue-3 | March-2013

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