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Pressure Injuries

Legal Perils and Pitfalls of Wound Care: Nutrition Assessment, Support, and Documentation, Part 3

September 24, 2020
By Heidi Cross, MSN, RN, FNP-BC, CWON "Defendants failed to provide adequate nutrition to prevent plaintiff from suffering severe malnutrition and weight loss. This allowed the development of a sev...

Legal Perils and Pitfalls of Wound Care: Risk Factors for Unavoidable Ulcers

April 9, 2019
by Heidi H. Cross, MSN, RN, FNP-BC, CWON According to the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, more than 17,000 lawsuits related to pressure ulcers (PUs) are filed annually in the United Sta...

Managing Skin in At-Risk Populations

February 28, 2019
by the WoundSource Editors Those working with at-risk populations must be aware of how to address the skin care needs of our patients and prevent pressure ulcers and injuries. At-risk populations, ...

Medical Device-Related Pressure Injury: Creating a Culture of Prevention

February 13, 2019
by Holly M. Hovan MSN, APRN, ACNS-BC, CWOCN-AP Recently, one of my awesome staff nurses coined a phrase that stuck with me—Mr. DoctoR Pressure Injury (MDRPI), also known as medical device-related p...

Microclimate and Pressure Injuries

October 23, 2024
Learn how microclimate can impact the challenges health care providers face in the prevention and treatment of pressure injuries in this video interview....

Neonatal Pressure Injury Prevention

January 16, 2020
By Ivy Razmus, RN, PhD, CWOCN There remain many unanswered questions regarding pressure injury and prevention practices among neonatal patients. Guidelines for pressure injury prevention were initi...

New Study Aims to Characterize Patients with Community-Acquired Pressure Injury

January 29, 2025
In a recent study, researchers aimed to classify patients with community-acquired pressure injuries based on pressure injury risk factors and assess the validity of these classifications. ...

Patient Preparation for Pressure Injury Prevention

October 28, 2019
By the WoundSource Editors With aging populations facing increasingly complex comorbid medical conditions coupled with polypharmacy and multidrug-resistant organisms, wound healing can often feel l...
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