Pressure Ulcer Prevention

"Pressure Ulcer Prevention" provides a readable guide to the process of setting up and running an effective pressure ulcer prevention service. Referencing is used to illustrate important points and to direct the reader to further materials. The book breaks down into four main sections: underlying principles - why pressure ulcer prevention, aims and objectives; setting up a service - what is needed, how to choose the most appropriate model of service provision, how to obtain it, managing change; maintaining a service - education, audit, adapting the service to changing needs/realities; and special cases - those areas where the special needs or characteristics of the patient population or the organisational needs of their care demand different approaches to prevention.