Injuries sustained during the day likely heal faster than those that occur during the night due to human internal biological clocks
Ask the Treatment Expert about … evaluating pressure injury programs
By
Jeri Lundgren
Dec 06, 2017
How do we evaluate whether our pressure injury program is ready for the new survey process?
Telescopic cells aid high-risk patients
By
Kimberly Marselas
Nov 06, 2017
Patients who spend more than eight hours a day in a wheelchair have a far lower incidence of pressure ulcers when it is equipped with a single-compartment or multi-compartment air cushion using telescopic...
Ask the Treatment Expert about … pressure injuries
By
Rosalyn Jordan, RN, BSN, MSc, CWOCN, WCC
Jul 06, 2017
What type of tissue is found in a pressure injury?
An ounce of pressure injury prevention
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Jun 06, 2017
Benjamin Franklin once said that “an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.” His 1736 statement was referring to firefighting — better to prevent a fire than deal with putting one...
How a 15-year-old inventor flew across the world to help pressure injuries
By
Nancy Munoz, DCN, MHA, RDN, FAND
May 05, 2017
The adage “you are never too young to teach and never too old to learn” took a new meaning at the National Pressure Ulcer Advisory Panel (NPUAP) Biennial conference held in New Orleans..
Defending nursing homes cited with F-Tag 314
By
Donna Fudge
Oct 26, 2016
With these recent decisions, we have discovered that there is success in demonstrating to a jury or arbitration panel how a pressure injury can be unavoidable as defined under F-Tag 314.