Turning the Tide on Pressure Injuries: Expert Strategies for HAPI Prevention

This webinar will be recorded live on November 21st, 2024 at 11:00AM CT. A recording of the webinar will be available within 24 hours of the live event.

Immobility is an important factor associated with pressure injury (PI), and adequate and effective mobility strategies are necessary to reduce the risk to the patient and care giver. The session begins with an overview of the problem of pressure injuries in bed bound patients and a brief overview of a comprehensive pressure injury prevention plan. An in-depth examination of the evidence supporting various pressure redistribution strategies used in various clinical settings will be outlined. The critically ill population is especially at risk with one out of every 4-5 patients will develop pressure injuries. The majority are on the sacrum and heels, clearly demonstrating the negative impact of lack of in bed mobility. Innovative programs for early mobility in the ICU and overcoming the barrier of hemodynamic instability are critical to the success of any pressure redistribution plan. As nurses we know what needs to be done but often are unable to achieve the care because of competing priorities. When the patient moves from ICU to the other units including rehabilitation and long term care, the pressure injury risk does not always lessen. We will examine methods to continue to mobilize the patient in bed. And we will examine approaches to the nonadherent patient in all settings. Let’s work together and take ownership to make the right care happen at the right time for the right patient.

1. Identify the critical barriers preventing the nurse from effectively delivering evidence-based care around mobility and shear or barriers to in bed mobility across the continuum
2. Compare and contrast various evidence-based strategies to reduce pressure, shear, friction during in bed mobility
3. Outline innovative programs or strategies to help successfully achieve in-bed mobility
4. Address approaches for patients and residents who are nonadherent to turning and repositioning programs

Joyce Black, PhD, RN, FAAN

Joyce M. Black, PhD, RN is the Florence Neidfelt Professor in the College of Nursing at the University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha, Nebraska. She is the current President of the National Pressure Injury Advisory Panel, having previously served as President, Vice-President and Secretary. Dr Black served as the co-chair of the task force to update the definitions of the stages of pressure injury including medical device pressure injury. Dr. Black has received many awards for her work in pressure injury, most recently the Kosiak award from NPIAP for her work in rediscovering deep tissue pressure injury.

Kathleen Vollman, MSN, RN, CCNS, FCCM, FCNS, FAAN

Ms Vollman is a Critical Care Clinical Nurse Specialist and Consultant. She has published & lectured nationally and internationally on a variety critical care, prevention of health care acquired injuries including pressure injury and HAI’s and serves as a subject matter expert on these topics for the American Hospital Association. From 1989 to 2003 she function as a Clinical Nurse Specialists for the medical ICU’s at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit Michigan.