Nursing Education Program for Hospital-Acquired Pressure Injury Prevention in Adult Acute Care Setting: A Quality Improvement Project
Respond to this post by Rose, give suggestions on her proposal below: Pressure injury prevention Prevention of pressure injuries to less mobile patients in the acute care setting is key to not only ensuring more positive outcomes and in decreasing lost revenue. Americans are living longer and with the longevity comes more chronic conditions that result in inadequate nutrition, decreased mobility and delayed healing. In order to prevent the consequences of growing older a quality prevention program is imperative. Nurses and support staff, as frontline patient advocates are key in successful development and implementation of a prevention program. Justification Hospital acquired pressure injuries (HAPI) are costly to treat and can cause increase mortality in already compromised patients (Padula, et al. 2019) . These injuries may result in 60,000 deaths annually and result in costs of approximately 11 billion dollars. Pressure injuries also result in 17,000 law suits being filed in the United States annually.( Henry, 2019). Treatment costs not reimbursed by insurance companies should have decision makers front and center in prevention program development. Locally, Braden scores are used to identify and monitor patients daily. However, during facility orientation there is no staff education on the importance of accurately assessing skin and what to do with the information once its gathered. Pre implementation plan In order for the plan to be successful the first step to development and implementation is to find out what knowledge gaps exist with staff. A pre implementation survey on staff knowledge, opinions and attitudes toward the current prevention program will be conducted to identify these gaps. This survey will not only include all staff to ensure that everyone in the department has the knowledge and the necessary skills to ensure success with the prevention program. Once this is completed the ground work for the prevention program will be started. References Henry, M. (2019). Nursing Education Program for Hospital-Acquired Pressure Injury Prevention in Adult Acute Care Setting: A Quality Improvement Project. Journal of Wound, Ostomy, and Continence Nursing : Official Publication of The Wound, Ostomy and Continence Nurses Society, 46(2), 161–164. https://doi-org.ezproxy.snhu.edu/10.1097/WON.0000000000000511 Padula, W. V., Pronovost, P. J., Makic, M. B. F., Wald, H. L., Moran, D., Mishra, M. K., & Meltzer, D. O. (2019, February 1). Value of hospital resources for effective pressure injury prevention: a cost-effectiveness analysis. Retrieved from https://qualitysafety.bmj.com/content/28/2/132
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