Chair, Quality Improvement Council-Preventing Harm; District Nurse Deputy Team Lead, Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust-Barnet.
Locality Manager for Barnet Planned Integrated Team, Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust-Barnet.
Br J Community Nurs. 2020 Sep 1;25(Sup9):S33-S37. doi: 10.12968/bjcn.2020.25.Sup9.S33.
Pressure ulcers are increasingly seen as an untoward event for patients. While there has been a strong focus on patients in the acute sector, community services have also had to be increasingly innovative in addressing this issue. Carers in care homes in the London borough of Barnet were identified as needing additional support to improve their knowledge and skills surrounding pressure ulcer prevention and treatment. An informal pilot training session showed that carers felt better equipped in terms of identifying new pressure ulcers and were able to escalate issues to district nurses in record time. Subsequently, there was a noticeable reduction in the reporting of pressure ulcers of categories 2 and above. In the present article, the authors describe the quality improvement project undertaken at Barnet care homes to prevent pressure ulcers.
压疮越来越被视为患者的不良事件。虽然急性部门的患者一直是关注的焦点，但社区服务部门也不得不越来越创新地解决这个问题。巴尼特伦敦自治市的养老院护理人员被确定需要额外的支持，以提高他们在预防和治疗压疮方面的知识和技能。一项非正式的试点培训课程表明，护理人员在识别新的压疮方面感觉更有能力，并能够在创纪录的时间内向地区护士上报问题。随后，压疮 2 级及以上的报告明显减少。在本文中，作者描述了巴尼特养老院为预防压疮而进行的质量改进项目。
