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• Braden Scale Risk Assessment and Skin Inspection Flowchart
  A flowchart indicating the steps taken to assess a patient’s risk of developing pressure ulcers and steps to identify and treat pressure ulcers that have formed.
• Daily Skin Care Flow Sheet
  This tool is used by nurses to help identify the interventions needed for those patients with an identified deficit in any or all of the Braden sub-scales to help reduce the risk for pressure ulcers.
• How-to Guide: Prevent Pressure Ulcers
  This How-to Guide describes key evidence-based care components for preventing pressure ulcers, describes how to implement these interventions, and recommends measures to gauge improvement.

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• Measures: Prevent Pressure Ulcers
  Care teams should measure compliance with each of the key components of evidence-based pressure ulcer care recommended in the How-to Guide: Prevent Pressure Ulcers.
• Percent of Patients Receiving Daily Pressure Ulcer Risk Reassessment
  The percentage of patients for whom a pressure ulcer risk reassessment (using an agreed-upon risk assessment tool) was documented as performed daily or with greater frequency (or for whom an appropriate contraindication was documented).

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• Prevent Pressure Ulcers Brochure
  
  This brochure provides information for patients and families on what a pressure ulcer is, who is at risk, how to keep skin healthy, what to do at home and in the hospital to prevent pressure ulcers, and what caregivers in the hospital will do to prevent them.
• How-to Guide: Prevent Pressure Ulcers
  
  This How-to Guide describes key evidence-based care components for preventing pressure ulcers, describes how to implement these interventions, and recommends measures to gauge improvement.
• Photographic Wound Documentation Form
  
  This tool is used to document the presence of a wound and condition of surrounding skin on admission and at regular intervals thereafter to document wound progression.
• Nursing Assistant Ostomy Competency Tool
  
  A tool used to rate nursing assistants on their performance of critical elements of care for patients with ostomies.
• Daily Skin Care Flow Sheet
  
  This tool is used by nurses to help identify the interventions needed for those patients with an identified deficit in any or all of the Braden sub-scales to help reduce the risk for pressure ulcers.
• Braden Scale Risk Assessment and Skin Inspection Flowchart
  
  A flowchart indicating the steps taken to assess a patient’s risk of developing pressure ulcers and steps to identify and treat pressure ulcers that have formed.
• Pressure Ulcer Plan of Care Tool
  
  A grid identifying various elements of care for patients with pressure ulcers.
• Wound Competency: Identifying Pressure Ulcers and Other Wounds
  
  This tool is used to educate nursing staff on the prevention and management of wounds. It lists critical elements for identifying pressure ulcers, determining their severity (stage), and differentiating them from other types of wounds.
• Skin Care Facts: Pressure Ulcer Prevention
  
  Use this poster to display important facts about skin care necessary to avoid pressure ulcers.
• Preventing Pressure Ulcers Turn Clock Tool
  
  The turn clock tool is posted to alert staff that this patient has been identified as being at risk for pressure ulcers and serves as a reminder to reposition the patient every two hours.
• How-to Guide: Prevent Pressure Ulcers — Pediatric Supplement
  
  This How-to Guide specifically tailored for pediatrics describes key evidence-based care components for preventing pressure ulcers, describes how to implement these interventions, and recommends measures to gauge improvement.
• How-to Guide: Prevent Pressure Ulcers — Rural Hospitals Supplement
  
  This How-to Guide specifically tailored for rural hospitals describes key evidence-based care components for preventing pressure ulcers, describes how to implement these interventions, and recommends measures to gauge improvement.
• Pressure Ulcer Baseline Assessment Survey for Registered Nurses and Nursing Assistants
  
  This self-assessment tool can be used by nurses to determine their knowledge of how to prevent and care for pressure ulcers.
• Preventing Pressure Ulcers: Patient and Family Fact Sheet
  
  This resource for patients and families provides an overview of how to prevent and care for pressure ulcers.
• Pressure Ulcer Prevention: An Nursing Competency-Based Curriculum
  
  NPUAP provides this example curriculum to prepare registered nurses with the minimum competencies for pressure ulcer prevention.
• Pressure Ulcer Prevention Points
  
  This tool provides a detailed description of pressure ulcer prevention points, with references to literature and other resources.

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• Passport Exclusive: Strategies to Prevent Pressure Ulcers
  
  In this video IHI Faculty Mamber Kathy Duncan, RN reviews the four recommended components of care and the supporting evidence for improvement outlined in the Prevent Pressure Ulcers How-to Guide.