The day I fired pillows and wedges
Many moons ago when I was fairly new to nursing, I was assigned to care for a patient with stage 4 pressure injuries on three sides of her lower trunk...
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4 Myths about Turning And Repositioning
And how these myths affect HAPI rates, costs, and outcomes By Gwen Jewell, Clinical Nurse II, BSN, CWS Wound Care Pressure Injury Prevention Keywords: Pressure Injury, Pressure Injury Prevention, Turning...
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What’s it going to take to stop pressure injuries?
If we want to realize genuine improvement in the quality of the pressure injury prevention and treatment we deliver, we cannot start with Electronic Health Records or technology driven approaches...
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Founded to innovate effective pressure reduction equipment
Each year, more than 2.5 million people suffer from pressure ulcers, aka bedsores. For every 1 person who gets a pressure ulcer, there are at least 20 people who are...
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Why I got into the pressure injury prevention biz
My Scope of Practice: Take a Load Off By Barbara Zeiger, originally published in OWM Journal May 5th, 2017 Gwen Jewell, RN, BSN, CWS, often asks herself why she is so...
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