Nursing Care, Pressure Injury, Pressure Injury Prevention, Risk Assessment
Conditions
Keywords
Pressure Injury, Braden Scale, Pressure Injury Prevention, Evidence-Based Nursing, Pressure Injury Risk Assessment, Nursing Care
Brief summary
This study is designed as a randomized controlled trial to examine the effect of using a color-coded classification system that identifies the risks of pressure injuries in the intensive care unit on the development of pressure injuries.
Detailed description
Pressure injuries, generally defined as localized injuries resulting from pressure or friction accompanied by pressure and/or tearing/rupture in the skin and/or deep tissues over bony prominences, are one of the most significant health problems in healthcare services worldwide, both for individuals and institutions. In pressure injuries, the primary roles of nurses are to assess individuals at risk using valid and reliable risk assessment tools, take measures to eliminate causative factors, protect and maintain skin integrity, and prevent the development of pressure injuries; and, when a pressure injury develops, to provide nursing care in collaboration with the individual and their family, taking into account individual characteristics, to promote healing and prevent recurrence. Since pressure injuries are largely preventable, identifying individuals at the highest risk and providing timely preventive care is crucial. Many valid and reliable risk assessment tools have been developed to identify individuals in the high-risk group. However, there is much debate in the literature regarding the benefits of pressure injury risk assessment tools. One of these debates is that the tools used by nurses to assess the risk of pressure injuries require a great deal of time, energy, and effort. Furthermore, the literature suggests that these tools should be presented in a user-friendly format to encourage clinicians to use them. A study by Creehan and Brindle found that nurses frequently record a risk score for pressure injuries in their records but often fail to implement interventions. A review of the literature reveals that the lack of user-friendly formats in risk assessment tools used in intensive care units to prevent pressure injuries, inconsistencies in interpreting the separate categories causing pressure injuries, and the insufficient reflection of risk scores obtained in risk assessments in nursing care are identified as obstacles to preventing pressure injuries. Moreover, the number of applications developed to address these problems is quite limited in the literature. The study will be conducted as a prospective randomized controlled trial. After obtaining verbal and written consent from individuals before and after clinical intervention, the study will be conducted using various data collection forms. These forms are: Braden Pressure Injury Risk Assessment Scale, Color-Coded Braden Pressure Injury Risk Assessment Scale, Participant Identification Form, Skin Assessment Form, Pressure Injury Incidence Monitoring Form, and Position Monitoring-Control Form. Participants will be randomized. Color-Coded Braden Pressure Injury Risk Assessment Scale group in group-I (n=48), and group II (n=48) will be the control group. In the first stage; pressure injury risk score for individuals in Group I (n=48) will be determined using the Color-Coded Braden Pressure Injury Risk Assessment Scale, and the pressure injury risk score for individuals in Group II (n=48) will be determined using the Braden Pressure Injury Risk Assessment Scale. The defining characteristics of individuals in Group-I and Group-II, whose risk scores have been determined, will be recorded on the Participant Identification Form. Color-coded pressure injury risk levels for individuals in Group I will be displayed at the bedside of the patient using color-coded cards: red indicates high risk, yellow indicates medium risk, and green indicates low risk. This application aims to enable nurses to quickly and visually identify pressure injury risks in patients. The skin condition of individuals identified by color codes will be observed and recorded on the Skin Assessment Form. The development of possible pressure injuries will be monitored using the Pressure Injury Incidence Monitoring Form, and the frequency of position changes will be monitored using the Position Monitoring-Control Form. Individuals in Group II, whose risk level for pressure injuries is determined using the Braden Pressure Injury Risk Assessment Scale, will have their skin condition observed and recorded on the Skin Assessment Form. Pressure injuries will be monitored using the Pressure Injury Incidence Monitoring Form, and the regularity of position changes will be monitored using the Position Monitoring-Control Form.
Interventions
OTHERColor-Coded Pressure Injury Risk Assessment Group
Color-coded pressure injury risk levels will be displayed at the bedside of the patient using color-coded cards: red indicates high risk, yellow indicates medium risk, and green indicates low risk. Participants will be evaluated every 24 hours from the beginning of the 0th measurement time to the end of the 5th measurement time. Pressure injury status (present/absent), occurrence time, stage, location, and cause will be recorded.
Sponsors
Saglik Bilimleri Universitesi
Study design
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
PARALLEL
Primary purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
NONE
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
18 Years to No maximum
Healthy volunteers
Yes
Inclusion criteria
* Agreeing to participate in the study * Participants who do not have a pre-existing pressure injury upon hospital admission
Exclusion criteria
* Wanting to withdraw from the study * Discharge from hospital or change of department before completing the number of days determined during the data collection phase
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Hospital-Acquired Pressure Injury Incidence | During the hospital stay, assessments are conducted every 24 hours from day 1 to day 5 of hospital admission. | The Color-Coded Braden Pressure Injury Risk Assessment Scale will be used to assess the risk of pressure injury in participants. This scale, which presents risk levels using a color-coded system, is expected to facilitate rapid risk identification and support timely preventive nursing interventions. The impact of this approach on pressure injury development and patient outcomes will be evaluated. This status will be evaluated with the Pressure Injury Frequency Monitoring Form, developed based on the European Pressure Ulcer Advisory Panel / National Pressure Injury Advisory Panel (2019) pressure injury staging system. All participants hospitalized in the unit will be assessed every 24 hours from the first day of their hospital admission until the 5th day. The presence or absence of pressure ulcers, time of onset, stage, anatomical location, and cause will be recorded. |
Countries
Turkey (Türkiye)
Outcome results
None listed