This year, Pressure Injury Prevention Day takes place on Thursday, November 17.
The objective of Pressure Injury Prevention Day is to increase awareness about pressure injury prevention and to educate the community.
If you’re looking to celebrate Pressure Injury Prevention Day with your team, you’ll find some fantastic resources below, such as toolboxes, training and free webinars and podcasts.
How we work to prevent pressure injuries
Pressure Injuries are a serious complication that are largely preventable. They can cause reduced quality of life, pain, suffering, and increased length of stay for our patients.
All clinicians can prevent pressure injury development by undertaking the following actions.
- Check if your patient is at risk
- Implement preventative strategies
- Document, document, document
The acronym SSKIN can assist you with remembering important factors for pressure injury prevention. You can use the SSKIN framework to improve assessment and care planning for consumers at risk of pressure injuries:
Surfaces are appropriate for the patient
- Skin assessments are completed on admission and daily
- Keep moving – Encourage patients to keep moving and perform position and device position changes every 2 hours
- Incontinence – assess skin for moisture and keep it clean and dry from incontinence
- Nutrition risk screening – complete the nutrition risk screening tool and regularly weigh and ensure patients are fed (when able)
Monash Health resources
The team at Monash Health have made a number of resources available to employees. These work to increase knowledge of pressure injury prevention and include:
Our Pressure Injury: Prevention and Management clinical guidelines on Prompt.
- The Monash Health National Standards Training – Preventing and Managing Pressure Injuries supports clinicians to understand and deliver high-quality pressure injury care.
- Pressure Injury staging lanyards designed to assist clinicians in accurately staging pressure injuries are available to order via iPROC using the order code 173661.
- The Pressure Injury Toolbox assists clinicians in pressure injury prevention and contains information related to key aspects of pressure injury prevention.
To find out more about pressure injuries, you can visit the pressure injury page on our intranet.
External resources
Our external providers and partners, Arjo and Smith and Nephew are hosting free webinars and podcasts that you can view/listen to over the course of the week.
Webinars
| Date | Title | Speaker | Link |
| 15th November 2022
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Long term Pressure injury Management in Aged Care | Arjo Clinical Educators | Register here
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| 17th November 2022 | Pressure Injuries in the Emergency Department | Smith & Nephew
Tracy Nowicki
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Register Now
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| 17th November 2022
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Pressure Injuries – Still a global crisis!
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Dot Weir
Dr. Lee Ruotsi |
Register here
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| Available on demand
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End of Life Care and Pressure Injury Prevention | Smith & Nephew
Fleur Trezise |
Watch Now
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| Available on demand
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Pressure Injury Prevention & Management – Aged care perspectives | Smith & Nephew
Fleur Trezise |
Watch Now
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Podcasts
| Title | Content | Link |
| Smith & Nephew Closer to Zero
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Smith & Nephew is proud to offer access to CLOSER TO ZERO online education in Advanced Wound Management.
Join twice a month for insightful podcasts with leading expert guests, who will look at the latest ‘hot topics’ in wound care to update and inspire you. Recent topics include; Stop Wound Infection Day Podcast Pressure Injury Prevention in People with Spinal Cord Injury |
Podcasts available here
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| Mölnlycke® Wound Care Voices | Powered by Mölnlycke Advantage, this podcast aims to find ways to reach out to Wound care health care professionals and discuss different wound aetiologies, evidences and practical how-tos. | Podcast available here |
| Arjo Clinical Educators
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Bariatric Care: Pressure Injury Prevention | Watch on demand |
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