What should I consider when creating a skin integrity care plan? Start with a comprehensive risk assessment and skin inspection. Once the risk and skin assessments are complete, all identified risk factors...
Ask the treatment expert: How do I capture a deep tissue injury that has an open area within it in our...
By
Jeri Lundgren
Jul 08, 2020
Our electronic record system allows only one measurement for a pressure injury. How do I capture a deep tissue injury that has an open area within it?
Ask the wound care expert: What is terminal ulceration?
By
Jeffrey M. Levine, M.D., AGSF
Jun 01, 2022
Q: What is terminal ulceration?
How to do it … Save skin from incontinence
By
John Hall
Apr 01, 2021
Even with the best of plans and good briefs, ancillary products can play a major role in incontinence care. But caregivers need to do their homework. Taking the appropriate time to make wise choices can...
Unintended consequences of the pandemic: Skin woes
By
John Hall
Jul 01, 2020
PPE creates pressure injuries for caregivers, while handwashing may pose clinical risks for residents.
Ask The Treatment Expert: Is a Kennedy Terminal Ulcer a pressure injury?
By
Jeri Lundgren
Nov 02, 2018
Is a Kennedy Terminal Ulcer a pressure injury? What are the main characteristics? A Kennedy Terminal Ulcer is a pressure injury that develops on residents as they are dying. The skin is the largest organ....
Incontinence care generates cost, assessment concerns
By
John Hall
Mar 02, 2020
Providers need to stay focused on maintaining residents’ dignity and preventing skin complications.
Wound-healing cell may be cancer key
By
Kimberly Marselas
Dec 05, 2018
UCLA scientists have discovered a protein factor that helps a fibroblast cell’s ability to help in wound healing.
FocusOn Briefs
Jul 01, 2020
Cardinal Health introduces the SkinHealth360 platform; Seni partners with National Association for Continence; SpiderTech kinesiology tape addresses PPE skin issues; Tissue Analytics acquired; AmeriPride...
Ask the care expert: Can you help me with terminology and assessments?
By
Sherrie Dornberger
Jun 02, 2021
I am a fairly new nurse, and in school we were taught to call openings in the residents’ skin “pressure ulcers” and stage them accordingly. But other nurses are correcting me. They say there are...