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PressureUlcer/Pressure Injury
Prevention
Skin Assessment
Grace Homecare.
Dedicated to Providing the Best In-Home Health Care.
Providing Skin Care
One Patient at a Time
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Skin
Matters
No Matter
the Age!
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Preventing health care associated pressure ulcers
is a Joint Commission national patient safety goal.
References
Health Research & Educational Trust (2016). Hospital Acquired Pressure Ulcers (HAPU) Change Package: 2016 Update. Chicago, IL: Health Research & Educational Trust. http://www.hret-hiin.org/Resources/pu/16/HRETHENPRU_ChangePackage.pdf
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Joint Commission. (2016). Joint Commission national patient safety goals.
https://www.patientsafety.va.gov/docs/TIPS/TIPS_JanFeb14_NPSG_Poster.pdf
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National Pressure Ulcer Advisory Panel (2016). National Pressure Ulcer Advisory Panel (NPUAP) announces a change in terminology from pressure ulcer to pressure injury and updated the stages of pressure injury. National Pressure Ulcer Advisory Panel. http://www.npuap.org/national-pressure-ulcer-advisory-panel-npuap-announces-a-change-in-terminology-from-pressure-ulcer-to-pressure-injury-and-updates-the-stages-of-pressure-injury/
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U.S. National Library of Medicine. (2016). How does skin work? PubMed Health. National Center for Biotechnology Information, U.S. National Library of Medicine Bethesda, MD. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/PMH0072439/
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