Date of Conferral

6-5-2025

Date of Award

June 2025

Degree

Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP)

School

Nursing

Advisor

Brenda Kulhanek

Abstract

The purpose of this staff education project was to improve nurses’ knowledge on burn care using an educational intervention. The project site became the children's hospital designated burn unit. Children with burns were a new patient population that the project unit had never cared for, and there was no formal training or competencies for nurses caring for these patients. Nurses requested formal education before being expected to care for these patients. This project utilized a single group, pre-post design comparing knowledge of bedside surgical nurses about pediatric burn care management principles before and after the educational intervention. The intervention was education on various burn care concepts and management principles using an online module. A questionnaire was administered pre and post intervention to assess the knowledge of nurses. A total of 39 bedside nurses were recruited from the surgical stepdown unit at the project hospital that completed both the pre- and postintervention questionnaire. There was an 36% increase between the pre- and posttest knowledge scores for all participants and a practical significance as nurses reported learning principles that helped them care for patients in real time. In this project, providing formal education on burn management principles resulted in a significant increase in nurses’ knowledge and improved nurses’ comfort with this patient population. These findings can be used to support the need for continuing education opportunities for nursing, especially after being introduced to a new patient population.

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