Abstract

AIM: Burn is a kind of painful trauma that requires a long period of treatment and also changes patients body image. For this reason, nursing care of burn patients is very important. In this study in order to provide qualified care to the burned patients, patient’s expectations from nurses were aimed to be established.
METHODS: Patients’ expectations were evaluated on 101 patients with burn in Ministry of Health Ankara Numune Education and Research Hospital Burn Service and Gulhane Military Medical Academy Education and Research Hospital Burn Center. A questionnaire which was developed by the researchers was used for collecting data. The questions on the questionnaire were classified into four groups to evaluate the patients’ expectations about communication, information, care and discharge. Data was evaluated by using SPSS 12 package software.
RESULTS: In this study, 48.5% of patients were at 18-28 age group, 79.2% were male and 51.5% of patients were employed. Almost all of patients expect nurses to give them confidence (98%) and to give them information about latest developments with the disease. Patients prior expectation from nurses about care was to do their treatments regularly (100%) and to take the necessary precautions in order to prevent infection (100%). 97% of patient expect nurses to give them information about the drugs, materials and equipment that they are going to use while discharge.
CONCLUSION: As a result we found that burn patient expectations from nurses about communication, information, care and discharge were high.

Key words: Burn, nursing, patient expectations

Article Language: Turkish English