Does placing multiple pads and linens under residents who are incontinent protect their skin?
Ask the treatment expert: are all pressure ulcers avoidable?
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Donna Sardina
Nov 01, 2009
Donna Sardina, RN, MHA, WCC, President, Wound Care Education Institute
Ask the Treatment Expert about … auditing skin integrity programs
May 08, 2018
What should our wound care nurse audit, and how often, to ensure our skin integrity program is on track? At least once a month, time should be set aside for the wound care nurse to audit the skin integrity...
Ask the treatment expert … about identifying pressure ulcers
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Rosalyn Jordan, RN, BSN, MSc, CWOCN, WCC
Jun 01, 2013
How do you deal with the age-old question “Is it a pressure ulcer or not?” Many healthcare professionals are frequently faced with the dilemma of how to document a reddened area on the buttocks,...
Ask the treatment expert: defining the tissue types seen in pressure ulcers
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Donna Sardina
Oct 01, 2010
Donna Sardina, RN, MHA, WCC, President, Wound Care, Education Institute
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Donna Sardina
Sep 01, 2008
Donna Sardina, RN, MHA, WCC President, Wound Care Education Institute
Ask the treatment expert: What is the PUSH Tool
Oct 01, 2011
Susan Wickard, RN, BSN, CWCN, CWS, CLNC, Clinical Advisor, American Association for LTC Nursing
Ask the treatment expert … about signs and symptoms of wound infection
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Rosalyn Jordan, RN, BSN, MSc, CWOCN, WCC
Nov 01, 2013
Can you supply a good primer for aides and others to determine whether a wound is infected?
Ask the treatment expert … about friction and pressure ulcers
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Susan Wickard
Apr 01, 2013
What role does friction play in pressure ulcers?
Ask the Treatment Expert about … pressure ulcer policies
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Jeri Lundgren
Oct 06, 2017
What are the significant changes from F314 Pressure Sores to F686 Skin Integrity, “Pressure Ulcers,” which takes effect in November?