Nursing Core Competencies of Staff NursesProviding Care for Burned Patients

Abstract

Competency standards for nurses who specialize in the care of burn-injured patients are lacking. Currently, there are no nationally agreed on standards that define safe and competent burn nursing practice. In 2014, nurse members of the American Burn Associationproposed the Burn Nurse Competency Initiative (BNCI) with the intent of establishing a core set of competency standards for burn nursing. Aim; this study aimed to Assess of Competency Levels of staff nurses providing care for burned patients. Subject and method; This study was conducted at two different settings , the first setting is Ahmed Orabi Hospital for burn and tumor and the other setting is Burn Unit in El-Demerdash hospital at Ain Shams University.The subjects of the study included 61 staff nurses, 33 Staff nurses working at Ahmed Orabi hospital and 28 Staff nurses working at Burn unit in El-Demerdash hospital at Ain Shams University.