Solihuddin Harahap
Politeknik Kesehatan Kementerian Kesehatan Medan

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Differences Between Wound Care with Modern Technique and Wound Care with Conventional Technique in Healing Diabetes Mellitus Wound Harahap, Zainuddin; Harahap, Solihuddin
Health Notions Vol 2 No 3 (2018): March 2018
Publisher : Humanistic Network for Science and Technology (Address: Cemara street 25, Ds/Kec Sukorejo, Ponorogo, East Java, Indonesia 63453)

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Diabetes mellitus is a disease caused by glucose metabolism disorder because there is glucose transportation disorder in cells as the result of the decrease in the work of insulin. Its great impact will influence patients’ life quality, especially patients with complication in diabetic foot wound. The objective of the research was to find out the differences between wound care with modern technique and wound care with conventional technique in healing diabetes mellitus wound. The research used quasi experimental method with pretest-posttest group design. The population was diabetic wound patients treated in the Praktek Mandiri Perawat (Nurse Independent Practice) Asri Woundcare, Medan, for diabetic wound care with modern and conventional technique at Mitra Sejati Hospital, Medan, and 34 of them were used as the samples. The result of the research showed that most of the respondents were > 49 years old, males, and had foot wound. Diabetes mellitus wound care with modern technique decreased in wound regeneration score of 49.5% while with conventional technique it decreased to 42.5%. There were significant differences between diabetes mellitus wound care with modern technique and that with conventional technique; diabetes mellitus wound care with modern technique was faster than that with conventional technique. It is recommended that SOP in wound care be reviewed in every hospital in order to improve nursing care system, especially in applying modern technique in wound care so that diabetes mellitus patients can feel its benefit. Keywords: Modern wound care, Conventional wound care, Diabetes mellitus
The Knowledge and Attitude of Nurses as an Efforts to Prevent Covid-19 Solihuddin Harahap; Sri Hernawati Sirait; Lestari Lestari; Nita Andriani Lubis
Health Notions Vol 6, No 8 (2022): August
Publisher : Humanistic Network for Science and Technology (HNST)

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Background: Coronaviruses are a large family of viruses that are transmitted zoonically (between animals and humans) and can cause mild to severe symptoms. SARS-CoV-2 infection in humans causes symptoms of acute respiratory distress such as fever, cough, and shortness of breath. In severe cases, the disease can cause pneumonia, acute respiratory syndrome, kidney failure, and even death. Efforts to break the chain of spread of COVID-19 require a good understanding and knowledge of all elements including nurses. Objective: To find similarities, advantages, and disadvantages regarding the Description of Nurses' Knowledge and Attitudes to prevent Covid-19 disease in 2021. Methods: This study used a descriptive type with a Literature review design obtained from sources from the International Journal of Nursing Research (IJNR) and the National Library. The keywords in this study were Description, Knowledge, Attitudes, Nurses, Covid-19 Prevention. Results: From five articles on the Description of Nurses' Knowledge and Attitudes to prevent Covid-19 disease, four articles had good knowledge and attitudes and there was one article which stated that nurses' knowledge and attitudes were still not good. Conclusion: This study aims to determine the similarities, advantages, and disadvantages of using a literature review. Of the five articles, it shows that the five research journals have research similarities in this research method, the five journals use descriptive research methods, there are 4 journals that have similarities in the sample, namely nurses, the third equation there are five journals that use a cross sectional approach. The advantages of this study are that there are four complete studies in accordance with the research objectives, and the drawback of this research is that there is one incomplete article whose research is not in accordance with its objectives. Keywords: knowledge; attitude; nurse; Covid-19 prevention