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Background: pin external infection is the most common health problem of nosocomial infection of patients their suffers from exogenous or endogenous symptoms of pin fixation infection. While pin skeletal fixation was considered a surgical treatment technique for orthopaedic patient to treat fracture bone which occur result direct internal trauma or external trauma in orthopaedic ward .But in sufficient orthopaedic nursing care of external pin track lead to infection occur around pin hole and transmission of microbes to the bone causing ununion bone site fracture ,loosen of rigid pin, abscess, sever painful and osteomyelitis. This problem was effecting on the quality of life of orthopaedic patient. Objectives: The study aims to determine the effect of an educational program on knowledge of orthopaedic nurses for pin external fixation and to find out the relationship between nurses’ socio-demographic characteristics of gender, age, educational level, marital status and their knowledge related pin track infection for external fixation. Methodology: A descriptive analytic study was conduct on Non-probability(purposive sample)of (40) an orthopaedic nurses ; (20) orthopaedic nurses for the study group and (20) orthopaedic nurses for the control group, who had work in orthopaedic ward at ALEmamin AL-Kadhumian teaching city in Baghdad city. A questionnaires form was used a tool of data collection for the study and control groups in the pretest from the period (24 th of May 2016 to 5 th June 2017) which these data are introduce through the application of an educational program. Then after three weeks was given the post test to study and controls groups, after the educational program has been finished with the study group for same questionnaires that used in the pretest. Descriptive and inferential statistics analysis were used to analyzed the data. Results: The results of the orthopaedic nurses knowledge study group showed there are differences between their knowledge about pin track infection in pretest and their orthopaedic nurses knowledge in posttest periods. That there was a statistically no significant association at (P≤ 0.05) between the study group of pin track infection of orthopaedic nurses knowledge related to( age , gender, ,marital status ) but there was a significant association related to the educational level . Conclusion: the results concludes defect and insufficient of orthopaedic nurses knowledge related pin external fixation were used to treated fractures bones for orthopaedic patients in ward. But the results of the study group of orthopaedic nurses knowledge which is exposed to the educational program benefited from the implementation of the educational program, and their knowledge was successfully enhanced and established.Recommendation: The study recommended the significance of increasing awareness among orthopaedic nurses about pin external fixation knowledge distributed through a handbooks, explanatory posters, and performing an educational health programs through modern technological to all orthopaedic nurses that include specific training session. Finally, the researchers suggest performing further new studies that include a larger sample which include knowledge and practices for all methods treatment internal and external fixation techniques

iosr journal of nursing and health science

Effectiveness of an Educational Program on Orthopedic Nurses' Knowledge Concerning Pin Track Infection of External Fixation in Al-Emamin AL- Khadamin Medical City.