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A complete pressure ulcer prevention and assessment program!

Pressure Ulcers: A Prevention, Assessment, and Treatment Training Guide is a complete facility-wide solution to your pressure ulcer concerns. You'll receive a comprehensive program to reduce the risk of pressure ulcers and pressure ulcer-related litigation. And, with the increased surveyor scrutiny following CMS' new guidelines, pressure ulcers are a concern no facility can ignore. 

Don't risk the damage a pressure ulcer-related lawsuit or survey deficiencies can do to your facility's reputation for quality patient care — not to mention the bottom line implications of a costly lawsuit. Order Pressure Ulcers: A Prevention, Assessment, and Treatment Training Guide today, and start managing the risks associated with this important long-term care issue.

As part of this one-of-a-kind, complete training system, you'll receive:

• Training manual
  The foundation of the program, this informative manual teaches nursing home management to train staff in preventing, assessing, and treating pressure ulcers. At 184 pages, it is a must-have resource for all long-term care administrators, directors of nursing, risk managers and other training staff.
• CD-ROM
  The CD-ROM includes a complete 120-slide PowerPoint inservice training program with a follow-up quiz and certificates of completion for staff. Use all the slides or only the ones that work best for your own needs! It includes numerous photos of pressure ulcers in various stages to allow staff to recognize and treat sores. The CD-ROM also includes sample forms and policies you can easily customize for your own facility.
• 25 Staff handbooks
  Training CNAs and other frontline staff is crucial to the proper prevention and treatment of pressure ulcers. Your training kit includes a pack of 25 information-packed handbooks. This 16-page handbook highlights the most pertinent information regarding pressure ulcer prevention, assessment, and treatment. The handbooks are used along with the CD-ROM and inservice program — CNAs can even count the program and quiz toward their mandatory annual continuing education requirements! Additional packages of 25 handbooks are available by clicking here.

Vital content
Pressure Ulcers: A Prevention, Assessment, and Treatment Training Guide includes everything you need to implement an effective pressure ulcer program at your facility, including information on:

• Background and scope of pressure ulcers
  Definition of a pressure ulcer, pressure ulcer prevention costs, standards of negligence, and the pros and cons of the Omnibus Reconciliation Act of 1987
• Complete pressure ulcer program — general policies
  Development of pressure ulcer prevention and management policies, including sample policies
• 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 assessment
  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
• Identifying risk factors
  This information will help you dentify all risk factors, not just the ones the MDS targets
• Assessment tools
  Forms and checklists to better assess and document cases
• CMS regulations and standards of practice
  Surveyor "Interpretive Guidelines," Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services' statistics on pressure ulcers as a deficiency

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Karen Clay, RN, BSN, CWCN, is the President of Kare N' Consulting in Brimfield, MA, a long-term care consulting company. She specializes in wound management, risk management, and clinical program development. An active educator, Clay regularly provides seminars on wound management and is working with facilities as part of the Nursing Home Quality Initiative on pressure ulcer prevention and management.

Clay's 20+ years of experience in healthcare management includes serving as a former director of nurses, corporate clinical consultant, and as a founding member of a company specializing in long-term care medical services. Karen is author of The Long-Term Care Survey Preparation Handbook, published by HCPro, and her work regularly includes "pre-survey" assessments of long-term care facilities. Clay is unique in her ability to traverse from resident bedside, to classroom, to board room with ease, competence, and a sense of humor.

Pressure Ulcers: A Prevention, Assessment, and Treatment Training Guide is part of HCPro's Long-Term Care Risk Management series, which includes Resident Falls: A Guide to Prevention, Assessment, and Response.

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