Critical care nurses’ knowledge and perceived barriers regarding pressure injury prevention among critically ill patients at Baghdad teaching hospitals: A cross-sectional survey

Nurses' knowledge on the prevention of PU in CCUs is satisfactory in this study and moderately has a high level of perceived barriers toward PU prevention. Several barriers perceived to affect patients' quality of care regarding proper prevention of PUs were identified by Iraqi CCUs. The findings of this study suggest that several barriers need to be resolved if proper prevention of PUs is to be guaranteed in CCUs.