title: Pressure ulcer prevention is everyone's business: the PUPS project.
abstract: Prevention of pressure ulcers is one of the greatest healthcare challenges in terms of reducing patient harm. The literature shows that although numerous reports and policy documents have been published, pressure ulcer prevention remains an ongoing challenge. A number of innovations have been published offering practising nurses and managers ideas for raising awareness of skin care and preventing pressure ulcers. The majority of these have focused on patients in hospital settings with very little in the literature related to care-home and community initiatives. This article reports on an innovative approach to education for pressure ulcer prevention through collaboration between patients, carers and health and social care professionals.
authors.affiliation: Tissue Viability Nurse (and Nurse for Embedded Learning Secondment 2014 to 2016), Adult Community Services, Oxleas NHS Trust.
authors.forename: Juliet
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Blenman
authors.affiliation: Honorary Research Fellow, University of Greenwich.
authors.forename: Di
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Marks-Maran
mesh_terms: D000488:Allied Health Personnel; D017028:Caregivers; D017048:Health Care Costs; D006282:Health Personnel; D006761:Hospitals; D006801:Humans; D009735:Nursing Homes; D003668:Pressure Ulcer / Q000191:economics / Q000451:nursing / Q000517:prevention & control*; D016730:Program Development; D018570:Risk Assessment; D017592:Skin Care; D013222:State Medicine; D006113:United Kingdom; D014481:United States
keywords: Care homes; Pressure ulcers; Prevention; Root cause analysis; Skin care