title: A nurse-led approach to preventing pressure ulcers.
abstract: This article discusses a nurse-led multidisciplinary approach that care providers can use to reduce pressure ulcers (PUs) within their organizations. Given the current understanding of PU etiology and prevention, evidence-based prevention protocols and pressure-relief strategies serve as critical foundational principles that must be applied to significantly influence PU prevalence and incidence. Because nursing plays an important role in rehabilitation facility management, nurses' expertise, leadership, and knowledge make nursing the most appropriate discipline to design protocols, implement innovative solutions, and lead the charge for PU prevention.
authors.affiliation: NIOSH Educational Research Center, University of Cincinnati, OH, USA. tracey.yap@uc.edu
authors.forename: Tracey L
authors.initials: TL
authors.lastname: Yap
authors.forename: Susan M
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: Kennerly
mesh_terms: D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006801:Humans; D003668:Pressure Ulcer / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000451:nursing* / Q000517:prevention & control*; D015995:Prevalence; D019145:Rehabilitation Nursing / Q000379:methods*; D012307:Risk Factors