HAPIs can lead to substantial harm to patients and staggering financial expense. These harms can range from pain and discomfort, to prolonged hospital stays, to premature death. HAPIs continue to …

cience (IS) facilitates the sustainment of evidence-based practice in clinical care. This article, the third in a series on applying IS, describes how a nurse-led team at a multisite health system used IS …

Q: How is present on admission (POA) defined? A: The cut off for determining POA is 24 hours from the time of admission, unless the hospital has specified a shorter time frame. Q: Are unstageable …

Patients with Hospital Acquired Pressure Injuries (HAPI) have poor outcomes such as pain, infection and almost 80,000 in-hospital deaths each year. Medical device related pressure injuries (MDRPI) …

To effectively impact HAPI rates, efforts focusing on enhancing effective VSA training / education, standardizing documentation expectations and on proper identification of avoidable and unavoidable …

Purpose & Aims prevalence of HAPI in the ICU after implementing a HAPI prevention bundled algorithm along with staff education.

RECOMMENDED NURSING CARE PROCEDURE FOR HAPI MANAGEMENT are essential to promote healing, reduce infection risk, and enhance patient comfort. The following stand