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Pressure Injury Prevention: A Quality Improvement Project Utilizing Incontinence Care Education, Laura Renner, Pamela Hardesty
Pressure Injury Prevention: A Quality Improvement Project Utilizing Incontinence Care Education, Laura Renner, Pamela Hardesty
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Objective: Evaluate whether the initiation of incontinence care education can improve pressure injury knowledge by an average of 5% in post-test scores over 1 month. Design: Theoretical Framework: Lewin’s Three-Step Model for Planned Change and Evidence-Based Practice Improvement Model. Setting/Local Problem: A 20-bed acute care geriatric unit in a large metropolitan hospital in middle Tennessee with inappropriate use of incontinence management products. Participants: Nurses and nursing assistants employed at the project site. Intervention/Measurements: An educational tool was developed to improve knowledge on pressure injury prevention through incontinence management. A pre-test and post-test were conducted immediately before and after educational tool …