Bed Sores / Pressure Injuries: Prevention & Treatment - Ask A Nurse | @LevelUpRN

I would particularly like to know how much of a weight shift is needed to avoid creating a pressure ulcer. I’m finishing nursing school soon and will likely be working in an ER in the near future and people will often spend prolonged time waiting on a bed (multiple days is not out of the equation). I would hate for my patients to start a pressure ulcer that might end up with sepsis further down the road.

Have a test tomorrow morning on this! Thanks so much!! ❤

Hi , in what direction should we take off tape on the abdomen ,
When it comes to wounds or surgical sites what directions are we going in in terms taking a dressing off or irrigation I’m so confused .

Amazing video! How to we get elder parents who won’t eat to drink an ensure. Harder than it seems! Help

I am passing this on to another person to inform them about pressure sres. Thank you so much!

I’ve taken care of my quadriplegic son for 27 years. He I went to a Pittsburgh hospital and the nurse didn’t turn on the intermittent air and caused a bedsore. He’s in a nursing home now and they’re still caring for this bedsore 5 months later. He also developed one on his right side because he was kept laying on a drainage tube. It developed into a large quarter size hole. When I took care of him he developed hardly any. He bought a great alternating air mattress. These beds in nursing home are terrible. I’m taking problems into my own hand I have a call into the wound center at my local hospital with questions hopefully I’ll get a call back.

My dad recently fell. Has more limited mobility now and needs a walker. Do I turn/move him in the middle of the night?

Thank you mam

Thanks. I am 70 and lost weight. Now I suffer from easily breaking down skin at my tailbone. You gave me 2 good things to do for myself. I appreciate it. So painful and aggravating. Thanks for the help.

Can you treat the breakdown skin from a pressure sore with aloe Vera leaf

What do we put for type 2 pressure sore?

My dad is suffering...

What about sores in the crease of the leg near butt bones? Very purple.

Hi grandma suffers from bad bed sores. Will calmoseptine still be useful? Or any other cream or spray recommendations? Please advice thanks a bunch!

I'm from South Africa and I developed a bed sore on my left heel while I was in hospital now years later it developed this hard layer of dried out skin which is very painful when it presses on the inside of my shoes although I cut it off it keeps growing back do you have any advice?

Hello, can you use a waffle cushion along with a pressure mattress pad, or is that too much?

People....I was an RN for Hospice...and got 3-4 Stage 2-3 ulcers/decubitus ulcers to "finalize and heal".
How? First, cut out the "processed foods; cakes, cupcakes, crackers, in other words....cut the high carbohydrate foods for 2-3 months....don't stop them in their' entirety....too difficult for older folks.
But: Beef, butter, bacon and eggs, will help to heal these problems. Eating "bon-bons" and allowing this should be considered malpractice today.

We need and deserve quality fats and proteins in the quantity needed for healing. This works. Get started today.

What is the dose of vit c

whats the best painkillers for bedsore

Thanks!

Hi...thanks for the video. My mother has severe bedsore and also huge exudate..
What to do please

Hi , is stage 3 bed sore can be treated? My mum is brain injury, she could not yet move, now we are trying our best to send for brain specialist with hoping that she gain concious and start to move if god permits.

Will the wrong cream on pressure sore make it worse rather than better?

My grandmother has open buttsoars or tailbone. Sores from laying on her back all the time and my mother uses Meta honey, but they seem to be getting worse, they're very wet. It looks like she has dead tissue and they are deep and bleeding. What should she use to help heel quickly? And what is best practices for that?