Pressure ulcers cause a lot of pain and suffering to patients and can significantly decrease their quality of life. In addition, the cost of treating pressure ulcers can be considerable. Numerous clinical guidelines recommend hydrocellular dressings for treatment of non-infected stage II pressure ulcers in adults. There is no clear evidence on the effect of hydrocellular dressings on healing time compared with the standard dressings.
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Duke, I am glad that you chose this topic for a poster because pressure ulcers are something I deal with frequently on my unit and our patients are either on my unit long enough for us to see progress or many times get readmitted and we can see progression of pressure ulcers. I see hydrocellular dressing occasionally, but we have a great wound and skin team that takes into consideration many different factors as your poster suggests. Like you said on your poster, I think it is important for the nurse to have options for treating different wounds and more importantly, I think nurses need more education on wound care and which supplies are applicable to different wounds.
I do not work with patients with pressure ulcers often, but when I do, the wound care team takes charge for the most part. As Cmatthews3 suggests, I believe all nurses require in-depth knowledge of wound care, especially prevention, which is better than cure. Thanks for sharing.
Your poster was easy to understand and delivered pertinent information. I did my research on a similar topic and was excited to find a free tool available for pressure ulcer prevention. This algorithm promoted through WOCN could walk most nurses through proper selection of prevention techniques. Similarly, I have found that many manufacturers offer learning materials such as dressing flip books which walk the practitioner through the selection process in order to choose the right dressing. I had always learned “keep a dry wound wet and a wet wound dry.” Optimal wound moisture is very difficult to achieve and sometimes more difficult to maintain as the wound changes. Great job on the presentation.