The following is taken from the National Pressure Ulcer Advisory Panel’s website. As wound care certified professionals, are we all consistently documenting and defining the pressure ulcers correctly. We have included an excerpt from NPUAP’s site below.
The National Pressure Ulcer Advisory Panel has defined the definition of a pressure ulcer and the stages of pressure…
Category Archives: Pressure Ulcers
Pressure Ulcer Stages (A Review)
Standards of Care: We are all in this together
Do you sometimes feel as if you are in this whole thing alone? I mean do you feel like taking care of someone is sometimes just you doing the whole thing by yourself? I know I feel like it from time to time. Now I know that what I feel isn’t actually true as others…
Prevention, Prevention, Prevention
What else can we do to assist preventing wounds from developing on our patients? As Wound Care Certified professionals, we can educate the public before and after they become our patients. Writing articles and submitting them to the web via blogs, making videos that speaks to our knowledge about prevention of wounds is an area that we can improve upon.
Its Not Too Late to Register for the Wild On Wound Conference!
The Wild on Wounds Conference is coming up soon. Its not too late to register for the Wild On Wounds Conference in Las Vegas , Nevada being held September 10-12, 2009. For those of you on the fence about attending you can find more information about some of the seminar sessions at www.woundseminar.com
Come brush on…
Test Your Pressure Ulcer Staging Skills
Recently, we have been posting some Assessment skills related articles and WCEI co-founder, Donna Sardina RN, uploaded a slide presentation to Test Your Pressure Ulcer Staging Skills.
Go ahead and click on over to see how you do. Warning: The Presentation contains graphic photos
For more information about becoming Wound Care Certified, check out WCEI.net for upcoming…