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Pressure Wound Healing versus Comfort Care in Palliative Care Patients

"Contrary to the prevailing belief that pressure ulcers should be preventable even at the end of life, some research suggests that skin, th…

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Pressure Wound Healing versus Comfort Care in Palliative Care Patients

"Contrary to the prevailing belief that pressure ulcers should be preventable even at the end of life, some research suggests that skin, th…

Started by Jennifer Bunn

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Reply by sandra kreal rn

How would you stage this pressure ulcer is and why?

  Nice work everyone and thank you for posting.  This pressure ulcer would be staged as a suspected deep tissue injury (STDI).  According…

Started by Laurie Swezey RN, BSN, CWS,CWOCN

23 May 22
Reply by Rosenie Allen

How would you stage this pressure ulcer is and why?

Started by Laurie Swezey RN, BSN, CWS,CWOCN

16 Mar 21
Reply by Leticia Magana

state survey

I am currently an LPN, for 16 year, in what is considered to be frontier medicine in very rural Colorado.  I am also currently enrolled in…

Started by Shannon Greek

0 Feb 1

Waterlow Risk Assessment Tool

Hey guys, I am having doubts on how to properly score on the neurological deficits portion of the waterlow. It gives a range of 4 to 6 for…

Started by Leonora R. Sacbibit

0 Jan 4

What stage is this pressure ulcer?

Wound to heel is unstageable would be Deep Tissue Injury.  Would treat it as DTI. Wound on achille tendon looks like hematoma unopened. I d…

Started by Lois Darnell

0 Apr 22, 2011

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