Educational Tool for Nurses: Pressure Injury Prevention for Critically Ill Patients in the Intensive Care Unit

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Educational Tool for Nurses: Pressure
injury prevention for critically ill
patients in the intensive care unit

Introduction
 Pressure ulcers or pressure sores are
areas of damaged skin caused by staying
fixed in one position for a significant
period of time of time
 Pressure ulcers are high risk, high-volume
and high-cost problem in the
standardised hospitals for the bedridden
patients
 Preventing pressure ulcers and
decreasing their incidence is a constant
challenge due to increased cost,
increased length of stay at hospital and
increased rate of morbidity, and mortality
(Coyer & Tayyib 2017)

Nursing Knowledge about Pressure
Ulcer
The knowledge and practice of the nurses
regarding pressure ulcers is poor
The reason include shortage of facilities, lack of
proper training, inadequate staff members and
dissatisfaction with nursing mentorship
In-service training, formal training, educational
status helps to increase nursing knowledge
about pressure ulcers
(Nuru et al. 2015)

Things to be covered
The following presentation is an educational tool
designed to educated nurses about the
interventions to control pressure ulcers
The presentation will cover the vulnerable
population of pressure ulcer injury, the target
population of the educational tool and the set of
interventions for prevention of pressure ulcers