KNOWLEDGE OF NURSING STUDENTS IN INJURY BY
PRESSURE: UPDATING KNOWLEDGE AND REFINING PRACTICE
Pressure injury. Knowledge. Nursing student
Pressure injuries are caused by several factors related to hospitalization and the
clinical conditions of patients, and requires comprehensive assistance by the entire
health team in actions aimed at multidisciplinarity for harm-free assistance, since this
health problem is potentially preventable. . National and international guidelines
direct clinical recommendations for the prevention and treatment of these injuries,
which aims to make the quality of care a positive indicator. In detriment to this
approach, this study aimed to evaluate the knowledge of nursing students about
Pressure Injury, using different methodological aspects such as: Application of the
Knowledge Test -TCLP Calili-Piper; and the Structured Objective Clinical
Examination Tool - OSCE, in two modalities: Virtual OSCE and OSCE in real scene.
This is a cross-sectional exploratory study with a broad scope of quantitative and
qualitative approach, carried out from August to November 2019, applied to nursing
students of the Supervised Curricular Internship of six Higher Education Institutions,
in a public hospital in the city of Maceió Alagoas . Each applied methodology flowed
into an individual scientific production, which were connected to each other, the
results of which were explored and presented in this dissertation.