Organisational strategies to implement hospital pressure ulcer prevention programmes: findings from a national survey.

ABSTRACT:

Aim

To describe the presence and operationalisation of organisational strategies to support implementation of pressure ulcer prevention programmes across acute care hospitals in a large, integrated health-care system.

Background

Comprehensive pressure ulcer programmes include nursing interventions such as use of a risk assessment tool and organisational strategies such as policies and performance monitoring to embed these interventions into routine care. The current literature provides little detail about strategies used to implement pressure ulcer prevention programmes.

Methods

Data were collected by an e-mail survey to all chief nursing officers in Veterans Health Administration acute care hospitals. Descriptive and bivariate statistics were used to summarise survey

SUBMITTER: Soban LM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5590754 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature