Pediatric Intensive Care Unit Skin-Care Team

<p>In the United States, pressure injuries (PIs) cost $9.1–$11.6 billion per year and claim more than 60,000 patient lives. The large Northern California hospital where this CNL project was conducted has had an 8.33% incidence of hospital-acquired PIs at or greater than stage two in the pediatric intensive care unit (PICU). Pressure injury prevention was not a high priority for the nursing staff; nurses were unaware of current PI prevention protocols or the PI prevalence in the PICU.<strong> </strong>The goals are to reduce PIs by 20% in 3 months, increase PI nursing education, and improve patient outcomes.<strong> </strong>Nursing skin-care rounds were conducted weekly and pressure injury prevention plans were established for high risk patients. The bedside nurses and skin-care champions reassessed the plans and adjusted them as needed. PICU nurses watched short videos and received formal training on Skills Day and during huddle and informal training through handouts.<strong> </strong>Pressure injury incidence remained at 8.33% after 10 weeks. However, following the skin-care project intervention, 67% of the nurses agreed they were more knowledgeable about PI prevention methods, and 55% of the nurses agreed they felt more comfortable with them. Finally, 66% of the nurses in the PICU strongly agreed that a unit-specific skin-care team would be beneficial in preventing PIs.<strong></strong></p>

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Science in Nursing (MSN)

Level thesis:degree_level

Project/Capstone - Global access

Year dc:date.available

2017

Author dc:creator

• Konstantin, Anna Therianos

• Pressure injury
• skin-care
• PICU
• Pediatrics
• Pressure ulcer
• prevention
• Critical Care Nursing
• Medicine and Health Sciences
• Nursing
• Pediatric Nursing

Repository record dc:identifier

https://repository.usfca.edu/capstone/508

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:repository.usfca.edu:capstone-1531