title: Reducing pressure damage: care bundles and collaborative learning.
abstract: Reduction of hospital-acquired pressure ulcers is a patient and nursing priority. Although evidence-based interventions to prevent such ulcers are well known, reducing this healthcare burden has proven consistently difficult. Via case studies, this article describes how a bundle approach to pressure ulcer prevention may be adapted for use within different clinical areas. It illustrates how collaborative learning may facilitate the spread of improvement work across a health board and build improvement skills within nursing.
authors.affiliation: Cardiff University.
authors.forename: Alison M
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Evans
authors.forename: Dwynwen
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Barklam
authors.forename: Karen
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Hone
authors.forename: Gemma
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Ellis
authors.forename: Joy
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Whitlock
mesh_terms: D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D019033:Delivery of Health Care, Integrated / Q000458:organization & administration; D006801:Humans; D007858:Learning; D003668:Pressure Ulcer / Q000517:prevention & control*; D006113:United Kingdom