Nursing Home Based Wound Care Case Study

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Improving Wound and Pressure Area Care in a Nursing Home, Author: Sparkes K,(2010), Journal : Nursing Standard The purpose is to assess the gap and competency in nursing care, improve patient outcome by promoting standardized, assimilated care. Also, utilizing the best practice in wound care, and thereby reducing the severity, and number of wound in a community within a nursing home Qualitative and
Quantitative Descriptive and experimental Two theoretical training sessions were delivered. One day on wound assessment and one day on pressure ulcer prevention and management. Through the initial selection of four nurses to supports staffs and the practice aspect of competency framework, the use of questionnaire to examine the effects
Latino-Am. Enfermagem To describe and to analyze knowledge on pressure ulcer prevention among nursing team members working in direct care to adult and elderly patients at a university hospital. Injuries to skin integrity, pressure ulcer in hospitalized patients represents an important problem. Quantitative Descriptive and experimental research. Sample size for the nursing auxiliary/technician category was determined randomly. With o = 0.05 and ß = 0.10 and correcting for a finite population, the ideal sample in this category would have 217 nursing auxiliaries/technicians Sociodemographic data and a knowledge test called pieper’s pressure ulcer knowledge test (PUKT). The nursing staff working in direct care to grown-up and elderly patients at the clinic contained 158 baccalaureate medical caretakers and 49 nursing experts, and 450 nursing assistance as a source of data collection It has findings that the use of risk assessment tools for PU example; Braden scale helps to identify patient at risk of PU and associated risk factors. The study result can help to recognize knowledge deficits among nursing team members, there it recommended that these scales and their and uses should be a significance in education of
Implementation of a Turn-Team Nursing Program (Nov 2004), Journal: Reducing the Incidence of PRESSURE ULCERS, Author: Bradley K. Hobbs The purpose of this study is to investigate the effects of a roving team of nurses engaged in set of practice known as turn team program which is designed to reduce the incidence of pressure ulcer. Incorrect to attributes a causal relationship to the turn- team program. The Mann-Whitney nonparametric U test program was conducted. It made no underlying assumptio
Predictors of Pressure Ulcers in Adult Critical Care Patients by Jill Cox (Sep 2011), Journal: American Journal of Critical Care The aim is to determine risk factors that will predict PU in very ill adult. The underlying problem is that pressure ulcer is underrated in spite of the advancement in technology. Qualitative and quantitative Descriptive and correlational design was used. Survey and through existing hospital computerized documentation systems. The result reviewed that age, length of stay in the hospital, friction/ shear contributed to skin break down resulting to pressure ulcer. The limitation is that the extracted data represent objective clinical findings and the use of single study site reduced the generalizability of the study