West Coast University Evidence Based Skin Care Question
Evidence-Based Skin Care
- Self-assess individual knowledge using the Pieper Pressure Ulcer Knowledge scale
- Provide evidence-based skin care to prevent and treat skin breakdown using Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) standards for practice.
- Evaluate the effectiveness of interventions to prevent and treat skin breakdown, and accurately document assessments and processes.
- Identify, stage, and measure pressure ulcers.Maintaining patients’ skin integrity decreases hospital-acquired infection rates and reduces patients’ length of stay.
- Respond in one well-developed paragraph.
- Complete the Pieper Pressure Ulcer Knowledge Test.
- Check your answers against the answer key.
- Provide your score and, in no more than one paragraph, develop three to five objectives that will help you enhance your knowledge about providing safe care to patients who may have challenges to their skin integrity.
