Preventing pressure ulcers from the bottom up
This webinar covers the definition of pressure ulcers, how they form, how to prevent them and pressure care product selection.
Learning Outcomes
Understand how to prioritise the highest impact interventions by revisiting:
- The nature and impact of pressure ulcers
- Pathology: the importance of pressure and time
- Prevention strategy: identifying and addressing key risk factors
- Core interventions: positioning and protective equipment
- Documentation for continual quality improvement
Meet our Experts
Lyn is a registered nurse, having practised across many areas from ICU to residential care. She has specialist expertise in the prevention and management of ‘avoidable’ healthcare outcomes, including pressure ulcers, and has been an active participant in the development of international clinical practice guidelines, biophysical measurement standards and the development of prevention strategies and quality management systems.
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