Establishing a hospital-based pressure care service.
The emphasis on pressure area care in all nursing specialties and the need to reduce actively the incidence of pressure sores, means that pressure areas must be monitored from the time the patient arrives in hospital to the time of discharge and afterwards. The use of effective pressure-relieving equipment plays a major part in the prevention of pressure sores (Hitch 1995). This paper examines the way Salisbury Health Care NHS Trust tackled this problem in hospitals and, in doing so, established an in-house pressure care service.
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Salisbury Health Care NHS Trust.
D006748:Hospital Departments / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D010348:Patient Care Team / Q000458:organization & administration*; D003668:Pressure Ulcer / Q000517:prevention & control*; D016730:Program Development; D015397:Program Evaluation