Pressure Ulcers: Appropriate safe staffing and skill mix

This is a secondary driver from safe clinical and care processes for pressure ulcer prevention, assessment, and treatment within the Pressure Ulcers driver diagram

Change ideas

The examples below show how this secondary driver can be implemented in practice. Additional change ideas can be found in the Pressure Ulcers driver diagram

Practitioner:

  • Systems and processes in place to monitor real time staffing and risk to inform decision making and escalation

Team:

  • Process to use staffing level tools alongside the professional judgement tool, as part of the common staffing method to inform workforce planning

Organisation:

  • Process in place to address severe and recurrent risk in relation to staffing

Evidence and resources

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