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Objective: This descriptive study was conducted in order to evaluate the knowledge of surgical nurses about pressure ulcer, risk factors and prevention. Material and Methods: The universe of the study comprises 400 nurses working in intensive care, operating room and surgical clinics of a university, state and private hospital in Karabük province. 245 surgical nurses who were not on leave or reported, willing to participate in the study and who gave consent were included in the study during the period of the study by the complete counting sampling method. As the data collection for personal information form, Modified Pieper Pressure Ulcer Knowledge Test was used. Frequency and percentage, mean, Mann-Whitney U test, Kruskal–Wallis were used to evaluate the data. Results: In this study, the topics for which surgical nurses responded most accurately were pressure ulcer description, staging, prevention and risk assessment, respectively. The prevention and risk, ulcer definition scores of the nurses working in intensive care unit were significantly higher than the nurses working in surgical clinics (p=0.007), and there was a statistically significant relationship between the frequent exposure with pressure injury, using scales, participating in-service training, reading articles on pressure ulcers and doing research on the internet, and nurses' correct response scores (p<0.001). Conclusion: In line with these results, nurses working in surgical clinics and operating rooms may be advised to plan in-service training for pressure ulcer, prevention and risk assessment, to participate in scientific meetings and to encourage them to conduct research.

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