Pressure ulcers

Preventing Pressure Ulcers—Respiratory Team Preserves Patient Safety
  • Researching and trying different breathing equipment
  • Improving communication among team members and other health care workers, such as wound nurses
  • Focusing on fixing problems, not blaming each other

What can your team do to increase awareness of how equipment can impact patient care? 

Laureen Lazarovici Tue, 08/09/2016 - 15:25

Poster: Getting to Zero Pressure Ulcers

Submitted by Shawn Masten on Fri, 04/26/2013 - 15:18
Region
Northern California
Tool Type
Posters
Format
PDF
Topics
Patient Safety
Role
Frontline Managers
Frontline Physicians
Frontline Workers
Content Section
Postcards to Posters
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lmpartnership.org
bulletin board packet
bb_zero_pressure_ulcers

This poster, which appears in the May/June 2013 Bulletin Board Packet, highlights a Northern California team that improved patient safety.

Non-LMP
Tool landing page copy (reporters)
Poster: Getting to Zero Pressure Ulcers

Format:
PDF

Size:
8.5” x 11”

Intended audience:
Frontline employees, managers and physicians

Best used:
Post this in highly visible areas to show your staff how they can reduce pressure ulcers by following a few simple steps.

Released
Tracking (editors)
Classification (webmaster)
Quality
Obsolete (webmaster)
poster
PDF
Northern California
bulletin board packet
not migrated
Preventing Pressure Ulcers Kellie Applen Wed, 02/13/2013 - 11:44
Region
Northern California
Keywords
Walnut Creek Medical Center
Cheryl Frydel
Respiratory Care Services
Judy McDowell
Laurel Wilkinson
respiratory therapist
Topic
Patient Safety
Download File URL
VID-11_preventingPressure/preventing_pressure_ulcers_2.zip
Request Number
video_preventing_pressure_ulcers
Running Time
2:59
Long Teaser

This approximately 3-minute video highlights a Walnut Creek team that wiped out serious pressure ulcers from respiratory aids.

Communicator (reporters)
Non-LMP
Editor (if known, reporters)
Tyra Ferlatte
Status
Released
Flash
Date of publication

This approximately three-minute video highlights a Walnut Creek Respiratory Care Services team that has gone two years without a single instance of a serious pressure ulcer resulting from a respiratory aid.

 

 

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