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June 02, 2025 - Pressure Ulcer Prevention Toolkit
Pressure Ulcer Prevention Toolkit
Module 3 Tools
3A: Pressure Ulcer … Identification Notepad
3D: The Braden Scale for Predicting Pressure Sore Risk
3E: Norton Scale
3F: Care … Pressure Ulcer Prevention Pathway
AHRQ Pressure Ulcer Prevention Program
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3B: Elements … Sore Risk
Background: This tool can be used to identify patients at-risk for pressure ulcers. … ulcers.
                                     
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January 01, 1995 - Pressure Ulcer Prevention Toolkit
Pressure Ulcer Prevention Toolkit
Module 4 Tools
2G: Pieper Pressure … Ulcer Knowledge Test
Background: This tool can be used to assess staff knowledge on pressure ulcer prevention … Pressure ulcers are sterile wounds.
	
	
	
	36. … Pressure ulcers are sterile wounds.
	
	False 
	36. … AHRQ Pressure Ulcer Prevention Program
Module 4 Tools		1
Action Plan for Pressure Ulcer Staff Education
                                     
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February 16, 2011 - preventing and managing pressure ulcers. … Pressure Ulcers: Facility Assessment Checklists. … Pressure Ulcers: Facility Assessment Checklists. … ulcers
	
	
	
	
2F: Assessing Pressure Ulcer Care Planning
Background: This tool can be used to determine … Pressure Ulcers: Facility Assessment Checklists.
                                     
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March 01, 2013 - Pressure Ulcer Prevention Toolkit
Pressure Ulcer Prevention Toolkit
Module 1 Tools
1E: Resource Needs … Preventing in-facility pressure ulcers. … Use: Ensure that all resources needed for launching a pressure ulcer prevention initiative are available … Pressure Ulcer Prevention Program Resource
	Needed: 
Yes/No
	Notes on what is needed
	Monetary Resources … Ulcer Prevention Program
Module 1 Tools		1
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Pressure Ulcer Prevention Toolkit
Module 5 Tools
Action Plan Tool … to Measure Pressure Ulcer Rates and Pressure Ulcer Prevention Practices
Tool 5C: Assessing Comprehensive … Assessment
Tool 5D: Assessing Standardized Risk Assessment
Tool 5E: Assessing Care Planning
AHRQ Pressure … Ulcer Prevention Program
Module 5 Tools		1
Action Plan Tool to Measure Fall Rates and Fall Prevention … ulcer risk assessment.
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June 02, 2025 - On-Time Pressure Ulcer Prevention 
Self-Assessment Worksheet for Pressure Ulcer  
The Self-Assessment … ulcers and identify gaps and places for improvement. … ulcers,  
 Identifies how they develop interventions to prevent pressure ulcer formation,  
 Identifies … History of pressure ulcers   
h. … Are there any particular obstacles or challenges to investigating the root cause of pressure 
ulcers
                                     
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pressure ulcers. … effective pressure ulcer prevention practices through an interdisciplinary approach to care. … On-Time Pressure Ulcer Prevention 
This toolkit helps nursing homes with electronic medical records … monitor and manage pressure ulcers that are slow to heal. … hospital pressure ulcer prevention programs.
                                     
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April 01, 2011 - patient
If this is a New or Existing pressure ulcer
Number of different pressure ulcers
Location … of pressure ulcers
Stage of deepest pressure ulcers
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Data Needed for Pressure Ulcer Rates … Used for Pressure Ulcer Rates
Suggested approaches
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Rate of total pressure ulcers
Rate of … hospital-acquired pressure ulcers
Rate of Stage II and above pressure ulcers
There are many ways to … Helps you prevent future 
pressure ulcers in this and 
other patients
Captures data about a 
pressure
                                     
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June 02, 2025 - Pressure Ulcer Prevention 
 
 
 
 
Pressure Ulcer Prevention Electronic Reports 1 
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’ … AHRQ’s Safety Program for Nursing Homes On-Time Pressure Ulcer Prevention 
2 Pressure Ulcer Prevention … Electronic Reports 
On-Time Pressure Ulcer Trigger Summary Reports  
There are two Pressure Ulcer … AHRQ’s Safety Program for Nursing Homes On-Time Pressure Ulcer Prevention 
Pressure Ulcer Prevention … AHRQ’s Safety Program for Nursing Homes On-Time Pressure Ulcer Prevention 
Pressure Ulcer Prevention
                                     
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January 01, 2012 - Using Pressure Ulcer Risk Assessment Tools in Care Planning
Using Pressure Ulcer 
Risk Assessment … • Pressure ulcer risk factor assessment
• Pressure ulcer risk assessment tools
• Using pressure ulcer … ulcers
• Different components of risk for pressure 
ulcers
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When To Do Risk Assessment
• On admission … ulcer risk factor assessment
• Pressure ulcer risk assessment tools
• Using pressure ulcer risk assessment … – Tool 3D: The Braden Scale for Predicting Pressure Sore Risk
– Tool 3E: Norton Scale
– Tool 3F: Care
                                     
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April 01, 2011 - Pressure Ulcer Advisory Panel
Have advised numerous health 
care organizations on pressure 
ulcers … ulcers with 
interventions in place
Patients with a pressure ulcer risk assessment 
completed within … Meet each month to address the root causes of 
pressure ulcers. … Preventing pressure ulcers in hospitals: a 
toolkit for improving quality of care. … Ulcer Development at VA
	New Pressure Ulcers at VA That Are Deep Stage 3 or 4
	Lessons Learned
	Who
                                     
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December 01, 2016 - Ulcer and Pressure Ulcers at Risk for Delayed Healing Reports. … It includes new pressure ulcers on residents who did not previously have a pressure ulcer and additional … pressure ulcers on residents who already had one or more pressure ulcers. … Worsening Pressure Ulcers are also categorized as POA or IHA. 
 Pressure Ulcer Measures. … Denominator:  Number of all current POA pressure ulcers. 
 
 
 
 Pressure Ulcer Counts.
                                     
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December 01, 2017 - Slide 15: Existing Pressure Ulcers Report 
 
 
 Drawn from nurse documentation of weekly pressure ulcer … Ulcer Count by Month Calculation Details 
 
 
 Current Pressure Ulcers by Stage. … New Pressure Ulcers. … Worsening Pressure Ulcers 
 
 Slide 52: Reviewing Pressure Ulcer Count by Month Calculation Details … pressure ulcers.
                                     
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February 01, 2024 - Preventing Pressure Ulcers in Hospitals 
 
 
 
 
 Next Page 
 
 Table of Contents 
 
 Preventing Pressure … How do we measure our pressure ulcer rates and practices? 
 6. … ulcers. … 4.1 What roles and responsibilities will staff have in preventing pressure ulcers? 
    … 4.2 What pressure ulcer practices go beyond the unit? 
   
                                     
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December 01, 2017 - Pressure Ulcer Healing 
 On-Time Pressure Ulcer Healing  was developed to provide nursing homes that … ulcers. … Pressure Ulcer Assessment 
 
 
 Reports Included in the Program 
 
 
 Existing Pressure Ulcers Report … Pressure Ulcers At Risk for Delayed Healing 
 
 
 Weekly Wound Rounds Report 
 
 
 Weekly Pressure … Prevention and Treatment of Pressure Ulcers: Quick Reference Guide. Emily Haesler (Ed.).
                                     
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January 01, 2014 - • Conduct skin and pressure ulcer 
assessments.
• Plan care to prevent pressure 
ulcers. … Resolve issues related to pressure 
ulcers.
• Help implement pressure ulcer 
prevention activities. … • Track unit pressure ulcers. … Preventing pressure ulcers in 
hospitals: a toolkit for improving quality of care. … ulcers.
                                     
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March 01, 2023 - AHRQ’s Safety Program for Nursing Homes: On-Time Pressure Ulcer Healing 
 
 
 
 The Agency for Healthcare … Research and Quality (AHRQ) created On-Time Pressure Ulcer Healing to help nursing homes with electronic … medical records address pressure ulcers that are slow to heal. … Pressure ulcers remain a serious problem in nursing homes despite regulatory and market approaches to … Pressure ulcers cause pain, disfigurement, and increased infection risk and are associated with longer
                                     
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March 22, 2014 - Homes: 
On-Time Pressure Ulcer Prevention 
Facilitator Training 
Handouts: Introduction to Pressure … Ulcer 
Prevention Facilitator 
Training 
On-Time  
Pressure Ulcer 
Prevention Facilitator 
Training … On-Time  
Pressure Ulcer 
Prevention Facilitator 
Training 
On-Time  
Pressure Ulcer 
Prevention … ulcers 0 1 2 2 
Temperature  99.2   
Pulse 82 88 90 100 
Respirations 20 20 20 20 
Blood pressure … Ulcer 
Prevention Facilitator 
Training 
On-Time  
Pressure Ulcer 
Prevention 
Facilitator Training
                                     
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August 08, 2025 - with new or worsening pressure ulcers? … None, but weight loss is minimal and there are no pressure ulcers  2. … On-Time Pressure Ulcer Prevention 40 
Wound Nurse:  Residents 1, 2, and 9 have pressure ulcers. … Questions for the nurse manager: This resident now has two pressure ulcers. … Have you discussed the progress of these 
pressure ulcers with the physician?
                                     
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May 01, 2016 - AHRQ’s Safety Program for Nursing Homes: On-Time Pressure Ulcer Prevention 
 
 
 
 The Agency for Healthcare … medical records reduce the occurrence of in-house pressure ulcers. … Pressure ulcers remain a serious problem in nursing homes despite regulatory and market approaches to … Pressure ulcers cause pain, disfigurement, and increased infection risk and are associated with longer … Materials 
 
 Self-Assessment Worksheet for Pressure Ulcer Prevention .