Publications by authors named "Annemari Cooley"
Article Synopsis
- Nurses in busy critical care settings often struggle with keeping up with routine repositioning schedules for patients at risk of pressure injuries.
- A study tested the effectiveness of wearable sensors that provide visual cues to improve compliance with a two-hour repositioning protocol in a medical ICU.
- Results showed compliance jumped from 55% to 89% with the use of the sensors, indicating that visual cueing significantly helps nurses to meet repositioning needs and improves teamwork.
Background: Documentation presents an overwhelming burden to bedside clinical nurses. Nurses must manually enter several hundred data points into electronic health record flow sheets, taking time from direct patient care and introducing opportunity for documentation errors.
Local Problem: A patient record audit revealed a significant gap in documented patient repositioning events.
Background: Turning nursing home residents every 2 hours has been a long-held standard for pressure injury (PrI) prevention in individuals with mobility impairments although evidence to substantiate this practice is limited. New guidelines recommend personalizing turning schedules to support person-centered care but lack specific recommendations about which turning frequencies are appropriate for various risk levels.
Purpose: This quality improvement program aimed to determine the feasibility and outcomes of using individualized turn schedules for newly admitted nursing home residents.
More than 2.5 million people in the United States develop pressure injuries annually, which are one of the most common complications occurring in hospitals. Despite being common, hospital-acquired pressure injuries (HAPIs) are largely considered preventable by regular patient turning.
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