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An Educational Intervention Differentiating Pressure Injuries From End-Of-Life Wounds, Alicia Perez Varela, Annette Callis
An Educational Intervention Differentiating Pressure Injuries From End-Of-Life Wounds, Alicia Perez Varela, Annette Callis
Providence Nursing Research Conference 2023 – Present
Background
End-of-life (EOL) wounds are identified in the literature as Kennedy Terminal Ulcers (KTU), Skin Failure (SF), Trombley-Brennan Terminal Tissue Injury (TB-TTI), and SCALE (Skin Changes at Life’s End). EOL wounds have a similar appearance to pressure injuries (PIs) with a fundamentally different etiology. The misclassification of EOL wounds as PIs results in increased Hospital Acquired Pressure Injuries (HAPI), hospital fines, and less-than-optimal EOL wound management.
Purpose
To examine the effectiveness of an educational intervention on EOL wounds in increasing nurse confidence in providing End-of-Life Care (EOLC) and differentiating PIs from EOL wounds.
Methods
This quasi-experimental study used the 28-item …
The Impact Of Therapeutic Neonatal Positioning In The Nicu, Amanda Blaise
The Impact Of Therapeutic Neonatal Positioning In The Nicu, Amanda Blaise
2022 Southern California Nursing Research Conference
Also presented at the National Association of Neonatal Nurses (NANN) Conference in September 2023