A Collaborative is a systematic approach to quality improvement using teams for best practice sharing within and between participating facilities.
PrU Articles
- Assessment of the Patient With A Lower Extremity Ulcer
- Bedfast Annotated Bibliography
- Chronic Wound Pain: A Conceptual Model
- Closing the Skin Assessment Disparity Gap
- Deep Tissue Injury: Myosubcutaneous Infarct
- Deep Tissue Vein Thrombosis
- F-Tag 315: Regulatory Guidelines for Bladder Management in Long-term Care
- Hanging Wet-to-Dry Dressings Out to Dry
- Heel Pressure Ulcers: Stand Guard
- If it is Not Documented, it Never Happened
- Moist Dressings: Bridging the Gap Between Research and Practice
- Not all Pressure Ulcers are Avoidable
- Stop Them at the Door: PrU Protocol in the ER
- Nursing Care of the Morbidly Obese Patient
- Palliative Performance Scale (PPSv2) version 2
- Palliative Wound Care and Healing Probability Assessment Tool
- Preventing Pressure Ulcers with the Braden Scale
- Prevention and Early Detection of Pressure Ulcers in Hospitalized Patients
- Prevention and Management of Skin Tears
- Reducing Harm from Pressure Ulcers
- Save Our Skin: Initiative Cuts Pressure Ulcer Incidence in Half
- Skin Changes at Life's End (SCALE): Annotated Reference List
- Skin Changes at Life's End (SCALE): Final Consensus Statement
PrU White Papers
- Ankle Brachial Index: Best Practice for Clinicians
- Legal Issues in the Care of Pressure Ulcer Patients
- Managing Pain in Long-Term Care: Pain F Tag 309
- Mucosal Pressure Ulcers: An NPUAP Position Statement
- National Pressure Ulcer Advisory Panel (NPUAP) Recommendations
- Not All Pressure Ulcers are Avoidable
- The Role of Nutrition in Pressure Ulcer Prevention and Treatment:
National Pressure Ulcer Advisory Panel White Paper
Forms
- Braden Risk Assessment Scale
- CNA Staff Interview Statement: NH Pressure Ulcers
- Discharge Wound Care Instructions
- Pressure Ulcer Data Collection Tool Instructions
- Pressure Ulcers: Communication with Physician
- Patient Teaching Protocol for Pressure Ulcer Prevention and Management
- Pressure Ulcer Scale for Healing (PUSH) Tool 3.0
PrU Presentations
- Ankle Brachial Index Measurement: What is it and why measure it?
- Braden Score: Case Studies 1 & 2
- Communicating: Old Topic, Ongoing Issues
- Dermatologic Problems / Integumentary System
- Encouragement Is Feedback
- F314 – Pressure Ulcers: Long Term Care Provider Associations Meeting
- Hospital-Acquired Conditions Present on Admission Indicator
- Improving Quality in Nursing Homes: An Overview of Advancing Excellence
- Overview of Urinary Incontinence (UI) in the Long Term Care Facility
- Pressure Ulcers: Putting Pressure on Prevention
- Pressure Ulcer Collaborative: Barriers to Implementing a Change Process
- Pressure Ulcers in Hospitals
- Skin and Wound Consideration in Non-Caucasian Skin
- Stop The Pressure: The C.N.A.’s Role in Pressure Sore Prevention
- Taking the Pressure OFF!: What You Can Do to Prevent Pressure Ulcers
- Wound Care: Dressings and Their Uses
Pressure Ulcer Prevention
Staff Improvement Resources
- Career Mobility Ladders
- C.N.A. Skin Care Prevention
- Education and Empowerment of the Nursing Assistant
- Facility Turnover Assessment
- Learning Circles: Learning From Each Other
- Reducing Pressure Ulcers for C.N.A.s
- Staff Stability Toolkit
- TeamSTEPPS Safety Improvements
- Types, Symptoms, and Management of Urinary Incontinence
- Using Praise Effectively
- VUMC Incontinence Program
- What Would You Do?: A Case Study
- Pressure Ulcer Glossary
Contact Us
Feel free send a message to any of us concerning this toolkit. If there are any technical issues or questions regarding the use of this toolkit please refer them to jwright@qsource.org
Contact information
Beth Hercher (QI Specialist)
email: bhercher@tnqio.sdps.org
phone: 901.273.2640
John Wright (Wound Care QI Specialist)
email: jwright@qsource.org
phone: 1.615.574.7214