Research Article
Nurses’ Knowledge, Practices, and Barriers in Care of Patients with Pressure Ulcers in a Ugandan Teaching Hospital
Table 5
Barriers to carrying out pressure ulcer management and prevention (multiple responses).
| Barriers | (%) |
| Poor access to literature | 21 (37.5) | Heavy workload/staff shortage | 53 (94.6) | Lack of universal guidelines for prevention | 28 (50) | Lack of in-service training about pressure ulcers | 13 (23.2) | Uncooperative patients | 35 (62.5) | Presence of other priorities other than pressure ulcers | 21 (37.5) | Shortage of pressure relieving devices | 45 (80.4) | Inadequate knowledge about pressure ulcers | 20 (35.7) | Lack of multidisciplinary initiative | 26 (46.4) | I do not have any challenge |
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