University Assignment: Pressure Ulcer Prevention Clinical Inquiry

This report presents a clinical inquiry focused on the prevention of hospital-acquired pressure ulcers and their consequences. It begins with an introduction to the clinical issue, highlighting the significance of pressure ulcers in hospitalized patients and the various preventative measures employed by hospitals, such as regular patient monitoring, repositioning, and the use of specialized support surfaces. The report then details the research methodology, including the databases and keywords used to identify relevant research papers. The report includes citations from key research papers. The assignment brief requires the student to complete a matrix worksheet template that includes full citations of selected articles, reasons for choosing the articles, descriptions of the research aims and methodologies (qualitative, quantitative, or mixed methods), and the strengths of the methodologies used, including their reliability and validity. The student's work is geared towards an evidence-based project, demonstrating an understanding of clinical inquiry and research methodologies related to the prevention of pressure ulcers.

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Introduction to clinical inquiry
• The topic which has been chosen for the clinical inquiry is ‘Prevention of hospital acquired
pressure ulcers and their consequence ‘.
• This topic has been chosen for the clinical inquiry as the development of pressure ulcer has
become one of the important problems of the patients who are admitted in the hospital.
• The pressure ulcers are also called which are developed by the patients because of pressure,
friction or moisture on he tissues underlying the skin (Gardiner et al, 2016).

• The patients of the hospital develop pressure ulcer as they rarely able t moe frok
the beds and also the blood circulation of the patient decreases.
• Nowadays the hospitals are using several techniques to prevent the patients from
the sufferings of pressure ulcers.
• The patients are regularly monitored by the nurses.
• The nurse changes the position of the patients, provide the patients with
pressure reducing cushions and mattresses (Waters et al., 2015).

• Nowadays each and every patients are examined daily to check whether
formation of pressure ulcer had happened to the patient or not.
• To measure the percentage of population suffering from pressure ulcer or bed
sore, the sum of people who are developing pressure ulcers are divided by the
total sum of people who have developed pressure ulcer in the hospital (Padula et
al., 2015).

• The research papers for this clinical inquiry were searched from different
databases.
• The key terms that were used for searching the research papers were pressure
ulcers, prevention of pressure ulcers and consequences.
• The databases that were used for searching the research papers were PubMed,
MEDLINE and CINAHL and PsycINFO

References
• Gardiner, J. C., Reed, P. L., Bonner, J. D., Haggerty, D. K., & Hale, D. G. (2016). Incidence of hospital acquired‐
pressure ulcers–a population based cohort study. ‐ International wound journal, 13(5), 809-820.
• Padula, W. V., Makic, M. B. F., Wald, H. L., Campbell, J. D., Nair, K. V., Mishra, M. K., & Valuck, R. J. (2015).
Hospital-acquired pressure ulcers at academic medical centers in the United States, 2008–2012: Tracking
changes since the CMS nonpayment policy. The Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient
Safety, 41(6), 257-263.
• Waters, T. M., Daniels, M. J., Bazzoli, G. J., Perencevich, E., Dunton, N., Staggs, V. S., ... & Shorr, R. I. (2015).
Effect of Medicare’s nonpayment for hospital-acquired conditions: lessons for future policy. JAMA internal
medicine, 175(3), 347-354.

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