Braden Scale risk assessments and pressure ulcer prevention planning: what's the connection?

Objective: To investigate the relationship between risk assessment scores on Braden subscales and nurses' selection of 10 commonly used best-practice pressure ulcer (PU) preventive interventions.

Design: Exploratory secondary data analysis, using a descriptive correlational design.

Setting And Subjects: A total of 377 Braden Scale PU risk assessments were made on 102 patients at different levels of risk.

A quasi-experimental study to assess the effect of technology-assisted training on correct endorsement of pressure ulcer preventive interventions.

The two-fold purpose of the Detroit Medical Center (DMC) Braden Scale Training Module is to teach nurses to use the Braden Scale to correctly assess pressure ulcer risk and to effectively plan risk-based prevention interventions. A pre-test, post-test, two-group, quasi-experimental study was conducted to evaluate the effect of web-based DMC Braden Scale Training on staff nurses' ability to correctly endorse the use or non-use of 10 commonly-used risk-based pressure ulcer preventive interventions for patients at different levels of risk for pressure ulceration. "Regular" or "new" users of the Braden Scale from three hospitals assessed 102 patients.

The nursing process and pressure ulcer prevention: making the connection.

Purpose: To provide the wound care practitioner with an understanding of how use of the nursing process enhances pressure ulcer prevention.

Target Audience: This continuing education activity is intended for physicians and nurses with an interest in skin and wound care.

Objectives: After reading this article and taking this test, the reader should be able to: 1.

The effect of Web-based Braden Scale training on the reliability of Braden subscale ratings.

Purpose: The primary purpose of this study was to evaluate the effect of Web-based Braden Scale training on the reliability of Braden Scale subscale ratings made by nurses working in acute care hospitals. A secondary purpose was to describe the distribution of reliable Braden subscale ratings before and after Web-based Braden Scale training.

Design: Secondary analysis of data from a recently completed quasi-experimental, pretest-posttest, interrater reliability study.

Multisite Web-based training in using the Braden Scale to predict pressure sore risk.

Objective: To evaluate the effect of a Web-based Braden Scale training module on nurses' knowledge of pressure-ulcer risk assessment and prevention.

Design: Pre-experimental, posttest-only design.

Setting: Web-based learning environment.

The effect of Web-based Braden Scale training on the reliability and precision of Braden Scale pressure ulcer risk assessments.

Objective: To evaluate the effect of Web-based Braden Scale training on the reliability and precision of pressure ulcer risk assessments made by registered nurses (RN) working in acute care settings.

Design: Pretest-posttest, 2-group, quasi-experimental design.

Setting And Subjects: Five hundred Braden Scale risk assessments were made on 102 acute care patients deemed to be at various levels of risk for pressure ulceration.

Computer-based testing of the Braden Scale for Predicting Pressure Sore Risk.

The Detroit Medical Center nursing documentation system requires all staff nurses to complete the Braden Scale for Predicting Pressure Sore Risk on an Acute Care Flow Record or Critical Care Flow Sheet on every patient, every day. An audit of these records raised concern as to whether staff nurses accurately used the Braden Scale to calculate pressure sore risk. Advanced Practice and ET Nurses noted that staff nurses were rating patients at lower levels of pressure sore risk than was warranted by the patient condition.

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Pressure ulcers: the great insult.

Pressure ulcers are a common and frustrating problem. Pressure ulcers increase demands on health care resources and are sometimes a source of malpractice litigation. Skin breakdown, often an iatrogenic complication of hospitalization, increases the length of stay and contributes to mortality and morbidity.

Choosing the right support surface.

Purpose: To provide the clinician with an overview of support surfaces used to manage tissue integrity as well as a review of how pressure ulcers develop.

Target Audience: This continuing education activity is intended for physicians and nurses with an interest in understanding how available support surfaces can impact the development and treatment of pressure ulcers.

Objectives: After reading the article and taking the test, the participant should be able to: