Advisor | Sherrod, Bradley | |
Author | Simmons, Stacy | |
Date Accessioned | 2023-07-25T12:01:16Z | |
Date Available | 2023-07-25T12:01:16Z | |
Date of Issue | 2023-07-21 | |
Identifier (URI) | http://hdl.handle.net/10342/13036 | |
Description | Hospital acquired pressure injuries are a costly and significant health care issue that can have major implications for patients and health care organizations. Accurate and timely wound assessment and documentation is an essential for patient safety, quality care, and outcome improvement. Wound and skin documentation has become a concern for a 114-bed hospital in eastern North Carolina. The goal of this quality improvement project was to improve patient wound care, patient wound outcomes and staff education related to improved wound care and wound assessment. Interventions chosen to achieve the established goal were: implementation of nurses properly photographing wounds to be imported into the electronic medical record (EMR), initiation of visual cues at the patient doorways to indicate which patients have wounds and which day re-measurement is due, initiation of reminder cue cards on nursing work stations on wheels with step-by-step information related to wound care, adding a column to the patient list that indicates which patients have wounds and implementation of EMR reminders on day seven and at discharge to re-measure and document on wound status. The results revealed that wound and skin documentation compliance from January to April 2023 increased from 52% to 91%, from pre-implementation data collected April to May 2022. The results of this project reveal that the interventions can increase wound and skin documentation compliance thus yielding improved quality of life for our patients. | en_US |
Language | en_US | en_US |
Subject | wounds, skin, interventions, hospital acquired pressure injury, digital imaging | en_US |
Title | Organizational Wound Policy Improvement and Expansion | en_US |
Type | DNP Scholarly Project | en_US |
Department | Graduate Nursing Science | en_US |
Degree | D.N.P. | en_US |
xmlui.metadata.ecu.campusonly | Open Access | en_US |