the patient's head.
• Post-op monitoring. We perform a post-op skin assessment and
provide any specialized care as needed. While patients recover, we
ask them to lay in a position different than that of how they laid in
surgery. For example, we'll move them onto their side if they were
supine throughout the procedure.
• Employee education. Though all nurses went through extensive
training when we first rolled out the pressure injury prevention pro-
gram, we wanted to ensure all new employees had the same buy-in as
those who've been here for a while. Now, we hold quarterly education
sessions, where we cover a range of positioning and pressure injury
prevention information, and have included our anesthesia team in
these discussions.
We make sure to
keep abreast of the lat-
est patient positioning
information and
include it in these ses-
sions. For example,
we recently discussed
preventing pressure
injuries that can occur
when a patient is posi-
tioned in such a way
that a medical device
— such as a Foley line
— puts pressure on
the patient's skin and
can cause harm.
Thanks to these
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