Objective To explore the application effect of functional dressings in the nursing of pressure injuries, and to provide evidence-based basis for the nursing of pressure injuries. Methods Computer search for randomized controlled trials on the effects of functional dressings in nursing of pressure injury in the Cochrane Library, PubMed, WOS, CNKI, Wanfang Data and VIP databases, screened and included the literature, and the search time limit was from the establishment of the database to June 2020. Two reviewers independently conducted literature screening, data extraction, and quality evaluation in accordance with Cochrane quality evaluation standards, and then used RevMan 5. 3 software for Meta analysis. Results Totally 17 articles were included, with a total of 1206 patients. The results of Meta analysis showed that functional dressings were superior to the control group in terms of nursing satisfaction, healing status, and healing time except for the number of dressing changes (P
