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Don't risk the damage a pressure ulcer-related lawsuit can do to your facility's reputation for quality patient care-not to mention the bottom line implications of a costly lawsuit.

Long-Term Care Risk Management: Pressure Ulcers—A prevention, assessment, and treatment training handbook, part of Long-Term Care Risk Management: Pressure Ulcers—A prevention, assessment, and treatment training guide package, stresses preventive strategies and outlines treatment concepts—while providing easy-to-follow ideas and tips to keep residents safe.

This informative 16-page handbook—which can be used along with the CD-ROM and inservice program—quickly and easily outlines:

• Pressure ulcer prevention: how risk factors such as support surfaces, moisture, and nutrition contribute to the development of pressure ulcers
• Pressure ulcer development: a review of skin anatomy, the four stages of pressure ulcers, healing processes and wound healing, and discussion of Minimum Data Set (MDS) requirements
• Wound evaluation: types of tissue, wound edges, wound photography, measuring pressure ulcers, and more!
• Healing assessment: measuring and monitoring healing, changes in tissue type, and the Pressure Ulcer Scale for Healing tool
• Treatment concepts: identifying treatment goals, wound cleaning and irrigation, debridement, clean versus sterile dressings, and much more!

Used with the companion manual and CD-ROM, the handbook training can also count toward your continuing education requirements!

Pressure ulcers are a risk no long-term care employee can afford to ignore. The Long-Term Care Risk Management: Pressure Ulcers handbook gives you the most valuable information you need to manage and reduce that risk.

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