How have the pressure injury staging descriptions changed in light of NPUAPs new guidelines? In addition to the change in terminology from pressure ulcer to injury, NPUAP’s April 13, 2016, press ...

Pressure injuries are one of the most common and costly complications occurring in US hospitals. With up to 3 million patients affected each year, hospital-acquired pressure injuries (HAPIs) place a ...

Pressure ulcers progress through several stages. In the early stages, they may barely break the skin. In later stages, they can involve deep wounds and carry a higher risk of complications, like ...

I am a fairly new nurse, and in school we were taught to call openings in the residents’ skin “pressure ulcers” and stage them accordingly. But other nurses are correcting me. They say there are ...

While hospitals have succeeded in the last few years in reducing the incidence of most healthcare-acquired conditions tracked by the federal government there is one persistent problem: pressure ...

The National Pressure Ulcer Advisory Panel redefined the definition of a pressure ulcer and the stages of pressure ulcers in 2007, including the original 4 stages and adding 2 stages on deep tissue ...