Evaluación del impacto de una intervención de enfermería en la prevención y tratamiento de las úlceras por presión

摘要

Objective: To evaluate the impact of a nursing intervention in the prevention and treatment of pressure ulcers (PU). Methodology: Design quasi-experimental pre-post intervention. Results: The overall prevalence of PUs in our institution has not changed after surgery (χ~(2) = 1.059, p = 0.589), remaining at 8.7%. However, it has fallen to 0 the number of ulcers of grade III and IV, has dropped significantly the prevalence of PU in Oncology-Hematology unit, the number of low-risk patients who developed PU and improved registration PU risk on admission. Conclusions: Despite these identified improvements will continue doing prevalence studies in order to know the situation and to implement improvement actions to reduce the prevalence rate.