Pressure ulcers

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1. Top Picks: Key resources on pressure ulcers

   • Ulcers / pressure sores
   • Top picks

   By Patient_Safety_Learning, 17 November, 2025

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   • 17 November, 2025

2. Conducting a systems review of pressure ulcers in the intensive care unit

   • Ulcers / pressure sores
   • System safety
   • (and 2 more)

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     • Ulcers / pressure sores
     • System safety
     • HDU / ICU
     • PSIRF

   By Claire Cox, 20 November, 2025

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   • 1,520 views
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   • 20 November, 2025

3. Reducing hospital-acquired pressure injuries in a cardiothoracic intensive care unit (1 February 2025)

   • Ulcers / pressure sores
   • ICU/ ITU/ HDU
   • (and 2 more)

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     • Ulcers / pressure sores
     • ICU/ ITU/ HDU
     • Medicine - Cardiology
     • Healthcare associated infection

   By Patient Safety Learning, 25 February, 2025

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   • 671 views
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   • 25 February, 2025

4. Safeguarding adults protocol: pressure ulcers and raising a safeguarding concern (Department of Health and Social Care, 16 January 2024).

   • Ulcers / pressure sores
   • Adult

   By Mark Hughes, 16 January, 2024

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   • 1,688 views
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   • Added by Mark Hughes
   • 16 January, 2024

5. Implementing the aSSKINg pressure ulcer care bundle – a blog by Susan Martin

   • Ulcers / pressure sores
   • Implementation
   • (and 2 more)

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     • Ulcers / pressure sores
     • Implementation
     • Data
     • Audit

   By Patient Safety Learning, 5 July, 2023

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   • 7,353 views
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   • 5 July, 2023

6. Guys and St Thomas' Stop The Pressure pledge wall

   • Ulcers / pressure sores
   • Staff engagement

   By Patient_Safety_Learning, 17 November, 2022

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   • 1,126 views
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   • 17 November, 2022

7. Skin Assessment: Assessing skin on patients with darker skin tones in relation to PU prevention

   • Ulcers / pressure sores
   • Health inequalities

   By Patient_Safety_Learning, 17 November, 2022

   • 0 comments
   • 1,271 views
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   • 17 November, 2022

8. Embedding skin tone diversity into undergraduate nurse education: Through the lens of pressure injury (2020)

   • Health inequalities
   • Ulcers / pressure sores

   By Patient_Safety_Learning, 16 November, 2022

   • 0 comments
   • 1,148 views
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   • Added by Patient_Safety_Learning
   • 16 November, 2022

9. Wounds UK: Best Practice Statements

   • Ulcers / pressure sores
   • Standards

   By Patient_Safety_Learning, 15 November, 2022

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   • 2,834 views
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   • 15 November, 2022

10. PURPOSE-T (Pressure Ulcer Risk Primary or Secondary Evaluation Tool)

    • Ulcers / pressure sores
    • Risk assessment

    By Patient Safety Learning, 27 September, 2022

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    • 10,134 views
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    • 27 September, 2022

11. NICE: Pressure ulcers (11 June 2015)

    • Ulcers / pressure sores
    • Care home

    By Patient Safety Learning, 18 November, 2021

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    • 1,364 views
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    • 18 November, 2021

12. Patient Safety Movement: Leadership support in highly reliable pressure injury prevention

    • Ulcers / pressure sores

    By Patient Safety Learning, 23 February, 2021

    • 0 comments
    • 1,137 views
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    • 23 February, 2021

13. Patient Safety Movement: Pressure ulcer prevention and management webinar (23 November 2020)

    • Ulcers / pressure sores
    • Patient engagement

    By Patient Safety Learning, 15 December, 2020

    • 0 comments
    • 1,288 views
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    • 15 December, 2020

14. Wirral University Teaching Hospital's SSKIN bundle

    • Ulcers / pressure sores
    • Care plan

    By Patient Safety Learning, 19 November, 2020

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    • 1,865 views
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    • 19 November, 2020

15. Stop the pressure: national pressure ulcer prevention guidance when nursing patients in the prone position (May 2020)

    • ICU/ ITU/ HDU
    • Secondary impact
    • (and 1 more)

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      • ICU/ ITU/ HDU
      • Secondary impact
      • Ulcers / pressure sores

    By Claire Cox, 10 June, 2020

    • 0 comments
    • 1,902 views
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    • Added by Claire Cox
    • 10 June, 2020

16. Advice for staff on preventing pressure ulcers while wearing PPE (BTHFT Tissue Viability Team)

    • Infection control
    • PPE (personal Protective Equipment)
    • (and 1 more)

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      • Infection control
      • PPE (personal Protective Equipment)
      • Staff safety

    By PatientSafetyLearning Team, 14 April, 2020

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    • 2,206 views
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    • 14 April, 2020

17. Five key messages to prevent pressure ulcers (2 May 2013)

    • Ulcers / pressure sores
    • Patient

    By Patient Safety Learning, 19 November, 2019

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    • 1,058 views
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    • 19 November, 2019

18. AHRQ: Safety programme for nursing homes: On-time pressure ulcer healing (updated July 2018)

    • Care home
    • Recommendations
    • (and 3 more)

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      • Care home
      • Recommendations
      • Risk management
      • Older People (over 65)
      • Software

    By Claire Cox, 5 September, 2019

    • 0 comments
    • 1,501 views
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    • Added by Claire Cox
    • 5 September, 2019

19. Introduction to the SSKIN care bundle

    • Treatment

    By Claire Cox, 2 August, 2019

    • 0 comments
    • 2,614 views
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    • Added by Claire Cox
    • 2 August, 2019

20. React to Red Skin: Real stories from people who've been affected by pressure ulcers

    • Hospital ward
    • Care home
    • (and 1 more)

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      • Hospital ward
      • Care home
      • Patient safety strategy

    By Claire Cox, 29 July, 2019

    • 0 comments
    • 1,796 views
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    • Added by Claire Cox
    • 29 July, 2019

21. Barts Health NHS Trust: Sign up to Safety - pressure ulcers (16 November 2017)

    • Ulcers / pressure sores
    • Care goals
    • (and 3 more)

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      • Ulcers / pressure sores
      • Care goals
      • Patient
      • Nurse
      • Recommendations

    By Patient Safety Learning, 19 June, 2019

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    • 1,404 views
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    • 19 June, 2019