Pressure injury prevention

Choose ONE topic to complete Assessment tasks 2a and 2b.
Clinical question choice 1: Pressure injury prevention
Dario is a student nurse working in an aged care facility and is looking after Mr George Florentine an 82-year old man who suffered a stroke four months ago. He is not able to mobilise without assistance. It was handed over that Mr Florentine needs re-positioning every 2 hours. However, Dario’s buddy nurse says that is not necessary as he has a pressure relieving mattress.
The following article is to be used in your annotated bibliography. You will still need to source two (2) further articles that are up to 7 years old to complete the annotated bibliography.
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De Meyer, D., Van Hecke, A., Verhaeghe, S., & Beeckman, D. (2019). PROTECT — Trial: A cluster RCT to study the effectiveness of a repositioning aid and tailored repositioning to increase repositioning compliance. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 75(5), 1085-1098. https://doi.org/10.1111/jan.13932 ISSN: 0309-2402, DOI: 10.1111/jan.13932

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