Sustainable pressure injury prevention
Charleen Singh, Noordeen Shoqirat, Lee Thorpe, Stephanie Villaneuva
Abstract
The quality department used adaptive leadership and the plan-do-study-act cycle to decrease pressure injury (PI) rates. After identifying gaps, the pressure injury prevention bundle was developed and implemented to bring evidence-based nursing practice to frontline nurses. Organisational rates of PI was followed for 4 years (2019-2022) and a smaller subset of 88 patients were followed in the prospective arm. Using statistical analysis, the decrease in PI rates (90%) and severity is significant (p<0.5) and sustained compared with the year prior to interventions.
Topics & Concepts
Pressure injuryPsychological interventionMedicineNursingEmergency medicineInternal medicinePressure Ulcer Prevention and ManagementDiabetic Foot Ulcer Assessment and ManagementDiagnosis and Treatment of Venous Diseases