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Pressure Injury

Never Events and Serious Reportable Events in Wound Care

January 31, 2023
The National Quality Forum (NQF) introduced the term never event in the early 2000s, and it refers to a preventable error that may represent fundamental issues with the quality or safety of care withi...

Pressure Injury and Microclimate: How Linen Layers May Contribute

February 14, 2024
Pressure injuries (PI) and their effect on patients across settings are a growing concern for wound care professionals. Of note, patients with pressure injuries admitted to the ICU have a significantl...

Pressure Injury Risk Assessment

November 1, 2022
A pressure injury (PI) is defined as a localized injury to the skin and/or underlying tissues caused by pressure either alone or in combination with shear. Hospitalized patients worldwide frequently p...

Q&A: Avoidable or Unavoidable Pressure Injury?

December 13, 2022
Editor’s note: The following is a series of answers to questions asked at the webinar Avoidable or Unavoidable Pressure Injury: Why is it So Hard to Do the Right Thing? sponsored by Smith+Nephew. Lee ...

Reducing Hospital-acquired Pressure Injuries: SAWC Insights

March 8, 2024
After COVID19, facilities faced nursing shortages, barriers to efficient documentation, and, subsequently, rises in hospital-acquired injuries (HAPI). In this interview from SAWC Fall 2023, Kim Cummin...

Skin Failure: Use of an evidence-based tool to identify it at end of life

March 24, 2023
There has been much discussion surrounding unavoidable skin breakdown; however, the exact etiology remains unknown. Experts have discussed hypoperfusion and multiorgan system failure as contributing f...

Taking a Hands-On Approach to Wound Care Education

May 19, 2017
By Holly Hovan MSN, APRN, ACNS-BC, CWON-AP As I am sure we are all well aware, not everyone loves wounds, ostomies, and continence as much as we do. Some nurses just do not have the passion (or des...

The Angiosome Concept Applied to “Inside-Out” Pressure Injury

October 28, 2021
Join Dr. Caroline Fife at WoundCon Fall 2021 for her talk on the angisome concept and how it applies to pressure injury development....

The Caregiver’s Role in Pressure Injury Prevention

May 19, 2023
Editor's Note: How can clinicians help support caregivers who look after family members with pressure injuries? In this interview, Kelly McFee, DNP, FNP-C, CWS, CWCN-AP, FACCWS, DAPWCA discusses how t...
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