On-Time Pressure Ulcer Healing

Posted in Current Projects, Current Projects Home Page. Written by hmstrat on November 8th, 2011

In 2009, On-Time was expanded to include a Pressure Ulcer Healing Improvement program focused on monitoring pressure ulcer healing and risk factors that may be specific to the rate of healing and best practices for treatments of pressure ulcers. The project was designed to streamline and standardize documentation, develop weekly reports to support nurses’ clinical decisionmaking related to pressure ulcer treatment, and embed quality improvement changes into daily work routines. Key elements of the program include the following:

• Bottom-up approach: A bottom-up approach includes frontline caregivers as integral members of the care team, to ensure that this approach  becomes part of everyday practice  and can be sustained in an environment of high turnover.
• Standardized data elements related to wound and skin assessment and pressure ulcer treatments: Standardized data elements are related to weekly wound and skin assessment and pressure ulcer treatments.
• Clinical decision reports related to pressure ulcer healing.

Learn more about our services: On-Time QI