For Nurses Week, Reward Your Nurses with Pressure Ulcer Resource

PRINCETON, N.J., April 26 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- In honor of Nurses Week May 6-12, NJHA Healthcare Business Solutions is offering priority mailing and quantity discounts on the Pocket Guide to Pressure Ulcers. The practical and durable pocket guide makes an affordable Nurses Week premium for nurses and aides in all care settings.

Order by April 30 to ensure priority shipping for delivery by Nurses Day May 6. Visit www.nopressureulcers.com for convenient online ordering.

The Pocket Guide to Pressure Ulcers, written by wound care experts Dr. Elizabeth Ayello and Dr. Jeffrey Levine, is a bedside reference tool designed to assist nurses, aides and other caregivers in pressure ulcer staging and documentation. It provides descriptions, color photographs, illustrations and charts, and also addresses documentation requirements from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services such as the "present on admission" indicator in acute care, MDS in long term care and OASIS-C in home health.

The authors collaborated with publisher NJHA Healthcare Business Solutions, an affiliate of the New Jersey Hospital Association, which has achieved tremendous results – including a 70 percent reduction in the incidence of pressure ulcers – in its quality collaboratives that have attracted participants from across the healthcare continuum. NJHA's pressure ulcer work has been presented internationally before the European Pressure Ulcer Advisory Panel and in journals and conferences across the United States.

The Pocket Guide is co-authored by two established experts in skin and wound care: Dr. Ayello, PhD, RN, FAPWA, FAAN, is past president of the National Pressure Ulcer Advisory Panel and a nationally recognized speaker, author and editor. Dr. Levine, MD, AGSF, CMD, is a geriatrician on staff at the St. Vincent Hospital Wound Care Center in Manhattan and a longtime presenter, author and blogger on wound care.

"This guide is like having a wound expert at your side," said Dr. Ayello. "With its large photographs and succinct information, this guide will help healthcare professionals identify and classify commonly seen wounds and pressure ulcers with greater ease and accuracy."

Added Dr. Levine, "I put this book together for frontline clinicians to assist with wound documentation and meet requirements from CMS for coding and wound identification. There is a great need for education on staging and wound identification, and I hope this book will fill part of the knowledge gap."

Quantity discounts are available for healthcare organizations that want to equip their team with this practical and important reference guide.

"Patients and healthcare facilities will reap the rewards through better patient care, improved quality outcomes, more accurate and consistent documentation and greater efficiency," said Aline Holmes, RN, senior vice president of clinical affairs for NJHA.

For more information, including a video conversation with the authors and sample pages, visit www.nopressureulcers.com.

SOURCE New Jersey Hospital Association