Protecting Skin Integrity Across the Care Continuum
Maintaining skin integrity is a fundamental component of quality patient care, requiring proactive assessment, prevention, and intervention across every health care setting. This Practice Accelerator brings together expert insights and practical resources to help clinicians strengthen skin protection strategies, reduce the risk of skin breakdown, and support better outcomes throughout the continuum of care.
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Upcoming Webinar
Choosing the Right Skin Care Products: A Practical Cleanse–Moisturize–Protect Approach
Catherine T. Milne, MSN, APRN, ANP/ACNS-BC, CWOCN-AP, WOCNF
Upon completing this webinar, clinicians will be able to:
- Differentiate the roles of cleansing, moisturizing, and barrier protection in maintaining skin integrity across the care continuum
- Select appropriate skin care products within each category based on key ingredients, formulation features, and patient-specific needs
- Apply a simplified cleanse → moisturize → protect framework to guide consistent, practical skin care protocols in clinical settings
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Optimizing Periwound Skin Integrity: A Structured Approach to Prevention and Management
Periwound skin integrity is a fundamental component of successful wound management. Although MASD remains one of the most common causes of periwound deterioration, skin breakdown is often multifactorial and may result from excessive moisture, friction, shear, adhesive-related trauma, exudate leakage, and patient-specific vulnerabilities. Preserving skin integrity therefore requires more than moisture management alone.
Fact Sheet
Quick Facts: Protecting Skin Integrity Across the Care Continuum
Featured Content
Risk Factors for Periwound Skin Damage
In your experience, what are the most important clinical and systemic factors that place periwound and surrounding skin at risk in real-world patients?...
Learn MoreEarly Recognition and Clinical Assessment
What early signs of MASD or MARSI should clinicians be watching for, and how do these influence your approach to intervention?...
Learn MoreSelecting and Sequencing Skin Protection Strategies
How do you approach selecting and sequencing skin protection strategies, such as cleansing, moisturization, barrier products, and dressing choices, for different patient profiles?...
Learn MoreBalancing Clinical Care with Real-World Constraints
In practice, clinicians often have to balance ideal product selection with formulary or cost constraints. How do you navigate those trade-offs while still protecting skin integrity?...
Learn MoreOptimizing Skin Protection Workflows
Based on your experience, what does an effective and practical skin protection workflow look like, and where do you see the biggest gaps in current practice?...
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Important Terms to Know
Key Terms to Know: Skin Health
Periwound Skin: The area of skin surrounding a wound. Its condition affects patient comfort, infection risk, dressing adherence, and wound healing outcomes; damage here can impair keratinocyte migration from the wound edge and delay closure.