Project Resources and Tools
- Turning Schedule Data Collection Sheet
- Beth Israel Medical Center, New York, NY, designed an educational and informative pocket guide that provides physicians with a quick reference on skin integrity assessment, pressure ulcer risk factors, staging pressure ulcers, documentation strategies, and management recommendations. This guide was developed to help physicians, as well reinforcing their role in prevention. Pressure Ulcer Physician Pocket Guide
- Provided to clinicians for preventing and treating pressure ulcers, is the Published Clinical Guidelines for Prevention and/or Treatment of Pressure Ulcers. Pressure Ulcer Annotated Bibliography
Links to other resources*
AHRQ Pressure Ulcer Prevention Toolkit
Matching Patient Safety Goals to the Nursing Specialty: Using Wound, Ostomy, Continence Nursing Services
Safe Skin Initiative - over 90 participating hospitals in MN Pressure Ulcer Care Initiative
National Pressure Ulcer Advisory Panel
Pressure Ulcers - Rex Healthcare (2 minute video presentation)
Changing Systems, Changing Cutures: Reducing Pressure Ulcers in Hospitals
Pressure Ulcers: Avoidable or Unavoidable? Results of the National Pressure Ulcer Advisory Panel Consensus Conference
Leveraging Certified Nursing Assistant Documentation and Knowledge to Improve Clinical Decision Making: The On-Time Quality Improvement Program to Prevent Pressure Ulcers
*JCR is providing these links as additional information and does not necessarily endorse the information or the organizations providing the information.