PUs significantly limits many aspects of an individual’s well-being, and quality of life. The study investigated pressure ulcer preventive practices among nurses working in Ekiti State University Teaching Hospital, Ado-Ekiti, Nigeria. Specifically, the study investigated the practices of nurses towards prevention of pressure ulcer; determined the attitudes of nurses toward prevention of pressure ulcer; and examined the factors/perceived barriers towards prevention of pressure ulcer.  A cross sectional descriptive survey design was adopted. The study population included all professional Nurses working in Ekiti State University Teaching Hospital, Ado Ekiti, Ekiti State. Purposive sampling technique was used for selecting 158 nurses from ten different wards. The instrument used for this study was a self-constructed questionnaire. Data was collected, analyzed and interpreted with SPSS version 23. The descriptive statistics were used to summarize the data collected. Inferential techniques involving chi-square was used to determine the relationship between the variables. All hypotheses were tested at 0.05 level of significance. The result revealed that good practices were displayed among 51.6% nurses. The result implies that the nurses in EKSUTH have good practices. Positive attitude displayed among 96.2% respondents. All the identified perceived barriers, inadequate staffing, Heavy workload, Shortage of pressure relieving devices, etc were found to be responsible except ‘‘Nursing leadership styles’’. The null hypotheses were not rejected for the two hypotheses tested. It was therefore concluded that good practice and good attitude were obtained among EKSUTH nurses. There was no significant association between year of experience and practice of prevention of pressure ulcer. Similarly, no significant relationship was observed between attitude of EKSUTH nurses and practice of prevention of pressure ulcer. It was recommended among others that more nurses should be employed to reduce workload.

Keywords: Pressure Ulcer, Preventive practice, Attitude, Nurses,

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