Nurses’ Knowledge, Practices, and Barriers in Care of Patients with Pressure Ulcers in a Ugandan Teaching Hospital

Table 5

Barriers to carrying out pressure ulcer management and prevention (multiple responses).

Barriers	𝑓 (%)
Poor access to literature	21 (37.5)
Heavy workload/staff shortage	53 (94.6)
Lack of universal guidelines for prevention	28 (50)
Lack of in-service training about pressure; ulcers	13 (23.2)
Uncooperative patients	35 (62.5)
Presence of other priorities other than; pressure ulcers	21 (37.5)
Shortage of pressure relieving devices	45 (80.4)
Inadequate knowledge about pressure ulcers	20 (35.7)
Lack of multidisciplinary initiative	26 (46.4)
I do not have any challenge	03 (5.4)