title: The high impact actions for nursing and midwifery 4: your skin matters.
abstract: Pressure ulcers can occur in any patient but are most commonn in high risk groups such as: older people; those who are obese, malnourished orwith continence problems; people with certain skin types; andthose with certain underlying conditions. Pressure ulcers increase morbidityand mortality, and represent a significant proportion of NHS expenditure, yet the vast majority are avoidable. This article, the fifth in our series on the high impact actions for nursing and midwifery, looks at how nurses can prevent pressure ulcers in their patients.
authors.affiliation: NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement.
authors.forename: Liz
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Ward
authors.forename: Katherine
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Fenton
authors.forename: Lynne
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Maher
mesh_terms: D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008880:Midwifery / Q000592:standards*; D009732:Nursing Care / Q000592:standards*; D009735:Nursing Homes / Q000592:standards; D011247:Pregnancy; D003668:Pressure Ulcer / Q000517:prevention & control* / Q000601:surgery; D012867:Skin / Q000473:pathology / Q000503:physiopathology; D016038:Skin Transplantation; D013518:Surgery, Plastic / Q000451:nursing