Nurses' knowledge about pressure sore treatment and healing.

Although nurses are more knowledgeable about pressure score healing and treatment than expected, a small scale study found that there is still room for improvement. There appeared to be similar levels of knowledge of pressure sore healing among orthopaedic and general surgical nurses, and a strong relationship between clinical grade and knowledge, with more senior grade nurses scoring higher on a pressure sore healing and treatment score, compared to more junior nurses. This has implications for who should be performing pressure sore treatment in the clinical setting.