To investigate the effect of nursing skill training on the prevention and control of infection for patients with burn.

From January 2014 to December 2014, a total of 90 patients with burn were treated in our hospital, and were divided into experimental group and control group (45 cases in each group) by random number table method. The nursing staff for patients in the experimental group had completed the training of nursing skills, but those for patients in the control group did not carry out the training of nursing skills. After 6 months, the depression score (SDS) in the nursing process, infection rate, mortality, as well as the satisfaction of patients to the nursing staff in the two groups were compared, respectively.

The SDS scores were 34.835±4.309 and 48.421±4.052 in patients of experimental group and control group, with significant difference (t = 3.311, P = 0.001). The infection rate and mortality rate were 10.1% and 5.9% for patients in the experimental group, which were 30.2% and 18.3% for patients in the control group, both with significant differences (χ² = 8.011, P = 0.002; χ² = 10.991, P = 0.009). The satisfaction degrees of nursing were 87.41±7.01 and 61.49±4.98 for patients in the experimental group and control group, respectively, with significant difference (t = 2.353, P = 0.019).

The infection rate of patients with nursing skill training was significantly decreased, and the recognition degree of the nursing method was also high among patients with burn.