Question

1 WHY is prevention of pressure ulcers a priority for quality and identify the steps you would take as a leader to make this a quality indicator for your long-term care organization.

• Be sure your post incorporates key characteristics of quality improvement tools and involves the interdisciplinary care team

Answer 1

• 1.Prevention of pressure ulcers reduces health care expenditures and to improve patient care.Improving quality of care and patient safety.

• The entire medical staff and the multidiscipline teamwork together and communicate frequently in order to prevent pressure ulcers at an early stage and to provide healing in a timely fashion.Team that has a strong link to hospital leadership, members with the necessary expertise, a clearly defined task. One of the quality improvement tool characteristics include process mapping to examine key processes where pressure ulcer prevention activities could or should be happening. For example, process mapping can be applied to a process, such as inpatient admissions from the emergency department. Mapping can specify which organizational unit or person carried out each step in the process, with particular attention to both the movement of the patient and the movement of information about the patient.