Nursing Care With Patients With Venous Leg Ulcers
- Venous Leg Ulcers
About this trial
This is an interventional health services research trial for - Venous Leg Ulcers
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion criteria for nurses:
- Working in municipality home-care
- Permanent attachment or three months or longer temporary post in municipality home-care
- Working in home-care area where patients with chronic leg ulcer are taken care during the study
Exclusion criteria for nurses:
1. Working in other place than home-care There are no other exclusion criteria.
Inclusion criteria for patients to observation are:
- Home health-care patient aged 60 or over
- Venous leg ulcer diagnosis
- Chronic ulcer in the lower leg without diagnosis
Exclusion criteria for patients:
1. An ulcer with other diagnosis than venous leg ulcer diagnosis There are no other exclusion criteria for patients.
Sites / Locations
- HomecareRecruiting
Arms of the Study
Arm 1
Experimental
Education
Intervention group will receive the ELC for six weeks (15.9. - 26.10.2014) and comparison group will not receive it. Members of the intervention group in will work in teams of 10 nurses with weekly questions (released in Mondays) based on patient-description existing in Moodle. One member of the team will send the solutions to questions once a week (in Thursdays) Moodle. Researcher will download the model-answer to Moodle once a week (in Fridays) and nurses will compare their answer to model answer (self-evaluation).