Design of the pressure sore management forms and its application / 中国实用护理杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective To explore the practicability of the pressure sore management forms and its effect on improving the nurses' reported compliance rates on high-risk pressure sores and external pressure sores and the passing rate of nursing records. Methods With aided designs as forms, icons and notes,making a comparative analysis on high-risk pressure sores and external pressure sore between 433 cases in 2010(the observation group) and 205 cases in 2009(the control group). Designing and applying the pressure sore management forms, including four kinds of forms the high-risk assessment form, high-risk pressure sores declaration sheet, the external pressure sore report form, pressure sore prevention and care record sheet, then applied them in the observation group. Results Compared with the control group, all aspects like the compliance rates of nurses' reports on high-risk pressure sores and external pressure sore, the passing rate of nursing records, the healing and improvement rates were obviously increased, the occurrence rate of high-risk pressure sores decreased. Conclusions The pressure sore management forms can help nurses for accurate assessing high-risk pressure sores and external pressure sores, also can help to increase the healing and improvement rate and to enhance the quality of nursing records.