Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/20213
Title: Towards international consensus on patient harm: perspectives on pressure injury policy
Contributor(s): Jackson, Debra  (author); Hutchinson, Marie (author); Barnason, Susan (author); Li, William (author); Mannix, Judy (author); Neville, Stephen (author); Piper, Donella  (author)orcid ; Power, Tamara (author); Smith, Graeme D (author); Usher, Kim  (author)orcid 
Publication Date: 2016
DOI: 10.1111/jonm.12396
Handle Link: https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/20213
Abstract: Aims: To analyse influential policies that inform practice related to pressure injury management in Australia, England, Hong Kong, New Zealand, Scotland and the United States of America. Background: Pressure injuries are associated with significant harm to patients, and carry economic consequences for the health sector. Internationally, preventing and managing pressure injuries is a key nursing activity and quality indicator. Evaluation: Comparative review and synthesis of pressure injury policies that inform practice. Key issues: The predominant focus of policy is on patient risk assessment, compliance with documentation and pressure relief. Financial penalty for institutions is emerging as a strategy where pressure injuries occur. Comparisons of prevalence rates are hampered by the lack of consensus on data collection and reporting. To date there has been little evaluation of policy implementation and implemented policy strategies, associated guidelines remain founded upon expert opinion and low-level evidence. Implications for nursing management: The pressure injury policy agenda has fostered a discourse of attention to incidents, compliance and penalty (sanctions). Prevention and intervention strategies are informed by technical and biomedical interpretations of patient risk and harm, with little attention given to the nature or design of nursing work. Considerable challenges remain if this policy agenda is successfully to eliminate pressure injury as a source of patient harm.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Source of Publication: Journal of Nursing Management, 24(7), p. 902-914
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd
Place of Publication: United Kingdom
ISSN: 1365-2834
0966-0429
Fields of Research (FoR) 2008: 111003 Clinical Nursing: Secondary (Acute Care)
111002 Clinical Nursing: Primary (Preventative)
Fields of Research (FoR) 2020: 420501 Acute care
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2008: 920210 Nursing
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2020: 200307 Nursing
Peer Reviewed: Yes
HERDC Category Description: C1 Refereed Article in a Scholarly Journal
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