Guide to Negative Pressure Wound Therapy (NPWT) Negative Pressure Wound Therapy (NPWT), also known as vacuum-assisted wound closure (VAC), is a dressing system that continuously or intermittently applies negative pressure across the surface of wounds that are acute, chronic, complex, or...

Integumentary Assessment The integumentary system includes the skin, hair and nails. Make sure there is adequate lighting and have the patient change into a gown. Have a small tape measure or magnifying glass available to measure or examine lesions more closely.

Isolation Precautions Isolation precautions create barriers between microbes and patients, staff, and equipment to prevent the spread of infection in the health care setting.

Ostomy Management Ostomies are surgical procedures performed to bypass or remove injured or diseased segments of bowel (fecal ostomies) or bypass the bladder (urostomies).Fecal Ostomies (Francone, 2023) Fecal ostomies may be used to manage medical conditions such...

Pressure Injury Assessment and Management Approximately 2.5 million pressure-induced injuries are treated each year in acute care facilities in the United States (Berlowitz, 2022b). Hospital-acquired pressure injuries are associated with pain, risk of infection, delayed recovery...

Urinary Incontinence Urinary incontinence is the involuntary leakage of urine, significant enough to be considered a problem. It is a very common and undertreated condition affecting close to 50% of adult women (Lukacz, 2023) and up to 34% of men aged 65 and older...