The healthy skin project: Changing nursing practice to prevent and treat hospital-acquired pressure ulcers

Critical Care Nurse

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 32-39

  Armour Burton, Teri ^a   Fields, Willa ^a,b   Outlaw, Lanie ^a   Deleon, Elvira ^a  

^a SHARP GROSSMONT HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DECUBITUS; HUMAN; IN SERVICE TRAINING; NURSING; PATIENT CARE; SKIN CARE;

HUMANS; INSERVICE TRAINING; PATIENT CARE TEAM; PRESSURE ULCER; SKIN CARE;

EID: 84878920156     PISSN: 02795442     EISSN: 19408250     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4037/ccn2013290     Document Type: Article

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