Joint Commission emphasizes diagnosis, treatment of pressure injuries
By
Kristen Fischer
Oct 18, 2023
The Joint Commission has issued guidance on pressure injuries which can raise the risk for people to have worse outcomes including amputation and infection. The recommendations aim to equip healthcare...
Pressure Injury Prevention Day observed with webinar and more Nov. 18
By
James M. Berklan
Nov 05, 2021
Providers are being offered a variety of free resources, including an educational webinar, to observe World Wide Pressure Injury Prevention Day on Nov. 18.
Blood coagulation issues and other COVID-19 manifestations can cause sometimes unavoidable skin injuries that appear to be pressure wounds. Clinicians should be aware of this when diagnosing and reporting...
Ask the Treatment Expert about … benchmarking data for a pressure injury program
By
Jeri Lundgren
Feb 08, 2018
How can I use benchmarking data to improve my pressure injury program?
Timing of wounds could impact healing
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Jan 08, 2018
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?
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.