Pressure Ulcer Resources
For nursing homes and hospitals
Braden Scale for Predicting Pressure Sore Risk
A tool developed by Prevention Plus, LLC
Celebrate Facility-acquired Pressure Ulcer-free Days! 2010 Calendar Tool
Use this 2010 calendar tracking tool to help increase the number of days that your facility is free from facility-acquired pressure ulcers.
Communicating with Physicians About Pressure Ulcers
The Guideline Project: Stakeholder Comments
Guidelines are coming soon! Clinical practice guidelines are systematically developed statements to assist practitioner and patient decisions about appropriate health care for specific clinical circumstances. Guidelines have become increasingly popular in response to concerns regarding wide variations in health care as well as the fact that much of this care is of poor quality. According to The Guideline Project, there is a pressing need for guidelines in pressure ulcer prevention and care. Updated guidelines for the prevention and treatment of pressure ulcers are expected from the National Pressure Ulcer Advisory Panel early in 2009. Stay tuned for further details on a special guideline presentation and the inaugural release of the prevention recommendations.
Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) Getting Started Kit
Management of Pain Related to Pressure Ulcers WebEx
A recording of a January 2010 WebEx featuring Jane R. Mort, PharmD, FASCP, Professor of Pharmacy Practice, College of Pharmacy, South Dakota State University, that discusses pain that accompanies pressure ulcers, side effects of pain medications and general pain management guidelines
Performance Assessment to Evaluate Ability to Reposition Self
The purpose of this assessment form is to determine whether a resident is capable of independently repositioning him- or herself. This assessment should be conducted by a licensed nurse.
Pressure Points Proper Positioning card
Important things to remember, pressure ulcer reduction tips and skin warning signs
Pressure Ulcer Care: Specific Actions for Improved Prevention and Treatment
An October 15, 2009, Bates-Jensen recorded WebEx session
Pressure Ulcer Change Package for Hospitals
Document summarizing pressure ulcer best practices for the hospital setting
Pressure Ulcer Change Package for Nursing Homes
Document summarizing pressure ulcer best practices for the nursing home setting
Pressure Ulcer Documentation Tool
Pressure Ulcer: Essential Systems for Quality Care
This information suggests areas to focus while evaluating facility processes for preventing and treating pressure ulcers.
Pressure Ulcer Pocket Cards for Providers
These 4" x 6" pocket cards address four topics surrounding pressure ulcers: staging, classifications and documentation, proper positioning, and lookalikes.
Pressure Ulcer Prevention Points
From the National Pressure Ulcer Advisory Panel
Pressure Ulcer Scale for Healing (PUSH) - PUSH Tool 3.0
A tool from the National Pressure Ulcer Advisory Panel to help in providing an indication of the improvement or deterioration in pressure ulcer healing.
Pressure Ulcer Stages Revised by NPUAP
The National Pressure Ulcer Advisory Panel redefined the definition of a pressure ulcer and the stages of pressure ulcers in February 2007, including the original four stages and adding two stages on deep tissue injury and unstageable pressure ulcers. This work is the culmination of over five years of work beginning with the identification of deep tissue injury in 2001.
Pressure Ulcer Treatment: A Competency-based Curriculum
To prepare registered nurses with the minimum competencies for pressure ulcer treatment
Pressure Ulcers: Facility Assessment Checklists
This is a series of self-assessment checklists for staff to use to assess processes related to managing pressure ulcers in nursing homes, in order to identify areas that need improvement. Nursing home staff will find the checklists most useful if they need to look at current practices more critically.
Prevention of Pressure Ulcer Knowledge Assessment Test and Answer Sheet
What do you know about the prevention of pressure ulcers? Test yourself.
SBAR: Skin Care Instructions
SBAR stands for Situation, Background, Assessment and Recommendation
STOP! Is it really a pressure ulcer? poster
Questions to ask before documenting any suspicious skin area(s)
Terms and Definitions Related to Support Surfaces
From the National Pressure Ulcer Advisory Panel Support Surface Standards Initiative
Tip the Waiter
Since this temporary pressure relief method was introduced, in February 2009, health care providers have praised and touted its effectiveness as well as its benefits. Some of the benefits voiced are the ease, the reduced chance of injury (compared to standing the individual), the increased staff compliancy and the effectiveness of “off loading” the three bone sitting surface, as well as those associated with therapeutic touch.
You and Your Family Can Help Prevent Pressure Ulcers
A beneficiary- or family-level brochure that describes what pressure ulcers are, when someone is at risk of developing one, where they are most likely to occur, and what can be done to prevent them
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