title: The VCU Pressure Ulcer Summit: Collaboration to Operationalize Hospital-Acquired Pressure Ulcer Prevention Best Practice Recommendations.
abstract: This executive summary reports outcomes of an interprofessional collaboration between experts in pressure ulcer prevention, bedside clinicians, regulatory agencies, quality improvement, informatics experts, and professional nursing organizations. The goal of the collaboration was to develop a framework to assist facilities to operationalize best practice recommendations to sustain organizational culture change in hospital-acquired pressure ulcer prevention, to develop a hospital-acquired pressure ulcer severity score, and to address topics related to the unavoidable pressure ulcer.
authors.affiliation: C. Tod Brindle, MSN, RN, CWOCN, VCU Medical Center Wound Care Team, Richmond, Virginia. Sue Creehan, MSN, RN, CWON, VCU Medical Center Wound Care Team, Richmond, Virginia. Joyce Black, PhD, RN, CPSN, CWCN, University of Nebraska School of Nursing, Omaha. Deb Zimmermann, DNP, MS, RN, NEA-BC, Chief Nursing Office, VCU Medical Center & ANCC Magnet Commission Chair, Richmond, Virginia.
authors.forename: C Tod
authors.initials: CT
authors.lastname: Brindle
authors.forename: Sue
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Creehan
authors.forename: Joyce
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Black
authors.forename: Deb
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Zimmermann
mesh_terms: D032921:Consensus; D006801:Humans; D007400:Interprofessional Relations; D003668:Pressure Ulcer / Q000517:prevention & control*