pressure injuries

AI-powered Wound Tissue Classification and Segmentation

Background: Accurate and consistent wound documentation has long been a challenge in the adoption of best practice wound care. With few wound specialists, minimal formal wound education f...

08/19/2021

Increasing documentation efficiency using wearable sensors for pressure injury prevention: A quality improvement project

INTRODUCTION: Nursing documentation provides an overwhelming burden to bedside clinical nurses. Nurses are required to manually enter several hundred data points into Electronic Health Re...

08/19/2021

Practice Dilemmas

Practice Dilemmas: Conditions That Mimic Pressure Ulcers/Injuries— To Be or Not To Be?

02/01/2021

Melania Howell, BSN, BS, RN, CWOCN, DAPWCA, DNPc

Salomé Loera, BSN, RN, PCCN, CCRN-CMC, DNPc

Anthony Tickner, DPM, FACCWS, FRCPS

Diane Maydick-Youngberg, EdD, APRN-BC, CWOCN

Elizabeth Faust, MSN, CRNP, CSWS, CWOCN-AP, DAPWCA

Sanaz Martin, MS, FNP-c, RN, CWON

Oleg Teleten, MS, RN, CWCN

Ruth Bryant, PhD, MS, RN, CWOCN

Diane Sandman, MSN, FNP-C, CWOCN

Emily Greenstein, APRN, CNP, CWON, FACCWS

Karen Bauer, DNP, APRN-FNP, CWS, DAPWCA

Jessica Miles, MS, BSN, RN, CNS, AOCNS

Alura Barsun, MSN, FNP-c, RN

Joy Schank, MSN, ANP, RN, CWCN

Supervising editor and contributor: Holly Kirkland-Kyhn, PhD, FNP, GNP, CWCN, FAANP

The purpose of this compendium is to describe and illustrate conditions that may mimic pressure ulcers/injuries.

The purpose of this compendium...

02/01/2021

Wound Management & Prevention

Avoiding Pressure Injury in the Operating Room with Root Cause Analysis & Action

Background: Pressure ulcer/injuries have always been a concern in healthcare, but have become a greater priority since the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid services introduced prospec...

06/10/2019