Vol. 10, Issue 6, Part B (2024)

Introduction: A wound is an injury that causes either an internal or external break in the body tissue. Surgical wound is a clean increate wound made by surgeon during any operation. Dressings are important component of post- operative wound management. A good dressing should maintain a moist wound environment and thus promote wound healing, be able to remove excessive exudates that might lead to maceration of the wound, provide a good barrier against bacterial or fluid contamination.4Worldwide, an estimated 4511 operations per 100,000 populations occur annually, equating to 1 surgical procedure each year for every 22 people. Surgical wounds are the most common wounds managed in acute care settings and are associated with a variety of complications such as bleeding and dehiscence. However surgical site infections are the most common complication—and they are also the most preventable hospital acquired infection.

Methodology: The Non - experimental descriptive research design was used on 64 B.Sc. nursing 2nd year students of Era college of nursing Lucknow fulfilling the inclusion criteria were included in the study. The purposive sampling technique was used. Socio- Demographic profile was used to collect personal information of subjects and self-structured questionnaire and observational checklist method was used to assess the competency regarding surgical wound dressing through OSCE method among B.Sc. nursing 2nd year students of Era college of nursing, Lucknow. There were 12 stations and it was divided into knowledge station and skills station (4 knowledge stations, 8 skills stations). The stations were developed to contain their respective evaluation criteria. And in each station evaluator was present. The data was collected by evaluator in each station. Each student completed a 12th station circuits. 12 students entered at the same time, and each of them went to a different station. They took until they completed a circuit. Each station lasted 6 minutes: one minute to read the purpose of the station, and five minutes to perform the task proposed. The students had to remain in the station for a total of 5 minutes, even it the completed the task in a shorter time. A sound alert went off to mark these time intervals and for continuity of the circuits. Same steps were followed for total samples. The privacy was maintained by screen in each station. The data was analysed using descriptive ad inferential statistics.

Results: Based on the collected data B.Sc. nursing 2nd year students have competency (good knowledge (76.6%) and good skills (95.3%)) regarding surgical wound dressing. And there was negative correlation between level of knowledge and skills regarding surgical wound dressing (r= -0.093) which was statistically non- significant. The association between selected demographic variables and level of knowledge and skills statistically there was no significant association between the demographic variables of age, gender, marital status or previous knowledge p<0.05.

Conclusion: The following conclusions were made on the basis of the finding of the study: The level of knowledge was good knowledge (76%), average knowledge (23.4%), poor knowledge (0.0%) and for skill was good skills (95.3%), average skills (4.7%), and poor skills (0.0%). Hence B.Sc. nursing 2nd year students have competency regarding surgical wound dressing.