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Page 18 <strong>The</strong> <strong>North</strong> <strong>Dakota</strong> <strong>Nurse</strong> <strong>July</strong>, August, September <strong>2022</strong><br />
Timed Repositioning Effect on Pressure Injury Incidence<br />
Appraised By:<br />
Kailey Fiske SN, Kylee Grabow SN, Courtney<br />
Hawkinson SN, Alexis Helm SN, Hailey Fried SN,<br />
Sarah Selle SN<br />
Allison Sadowsky MSN RN Assistant Professor of<br />
Practice (Faculty)<br />
(NDSU School of Nursing at Sanford Health)<br />
Clinical Question:<br />
For adult patients with decreased mobility,<br />
does the use of timed repositioning reduce the risk<br />
for pressure injuries?<br />
Sources of Evidence:<br />
Chew, H.S., Thiara, E., Lopez, V., & Shorey, S. (2018).<br />
Turning frequency in adult bedridden patients<br />
to prevent hospital-acquired pressure ulcer: A<br />
scoping review. International Wound Journal, 15(2),<br />
225–236. https://doi.org/10.1111/iwj.12855<br />
Cyriacks, B. (2019). Reducing HAPI by Cultivating Team<br />
Ownership of Prevention with Budget-Neutral Turn<br />
Teams. MEDSURG Nursing, 28(1), 48–52.<br />
Darvall, J. N., Mesfin, L., & Gorelik, A. (2018). Increasing<br />
frequency of critically ill patient turns is associated<br />
with a reduction in pressure injuries. Critical Care<br />
and Resuscitation, 20(3), 217-222.<br />
De Meyer, D., Van Hecke, A., Verhaeghe, S., &<br />
Beeckman, D. (2019). PROTECT – Trial: A cluster RCT<br />
to study the effectiveness of a repositioning aid<br />
and tailored repositioning to increase repositioning<br />
compliance. Journal Of Advanced Nursing, 75(5),<br />
1085-1098. doi: 10.1111/jan.13932<br />
Harmon, L. C., Grobbel, C., & Palleschi, M. (2016).<br />
Reducing Pressure Injury Incidence Using a<br />
Turn Team Assignment: Analysis of a Quality<br />
Improvement Project. Journal of wound, ostomy,<br />
and continence nursing : official publication<br />
of <strong>The</strong> Wound, Ostomy and Continence <strong>Nurse</strong>s<br />
Society, 43(5), 477–482. https://doi-org.ezproxy.lib.<br />
ndsu.nodak.edu/10.1097/WON.0000000000000258<br />
Kahn, M., & Jonusas, E. (2019). Turn Teams: How Do You<br />
Prevent Pressure Injuries? MedSurg Nursing, 257–<br />
261.<br />
Synthesis of Evidence:<br />
Six articles were reviewed as evidenced in<br />
this report. A systematic review, three quasiexperimental,<br />
a descriptive correlational study,<br />
and a randomized control trial. Pressure ulcers are<br />
a result of decreased mobility due to increased<br />
pressure on body prominences and decreased<br />
blood flow to the tissue. This is important because<br />
pressure injuries are associated with increased<br />
mortality rate and cost of treatment (Kahn &<br />
Jonusas, 2019). This report will assess the effect of<br />
timed repositioning on the incidence of pressure<br />
injuries.<br />
Chew, Thiara, Lopez and Shorey (2018)<br />
conducted a systematic review which included<br />
five randomized control studies, one prospective<br />
cohort study and one literature review. <strong>The</strong>se<br />
studies took place in various hospital and longterm<br />
care facilities and included immobile,<br />
elderly, hospitalized or nursing home residents<br />
with a focus on pressure ulcer prevention<br />
interventions. In total, the sample size ranged<br />
from 63-335 patients. <strong>The</strong> interventions included:<br />
pressure ulcer incidences with foam mattresses,<br />
incidence of pressure ulcer development using<br />
various repositioning schedules, stages of pressure<br />
ulcers related to differing turning schedules<br />
and lastly degree of blanchable erythema.<br />
<strong>The</strong> findings did not statistically differ from one<br />
intervention to another. <strong>The</strong> evidence was not<br />
statistically significant, however, repositioning<br />
every two hours had a pressure ulcer rate of<br />
10.3% while repositioning every four hours had a<br />
13.4%. This systematic review brings forward the<br />
idea of implementing facility-wide pressure redistributing<br />
air-mattresses in hospitals and nursing<br />
homes to prevent pressure ulcer development<br />
while reducing manpower needed to reposition<br />
patients.<br />
Cyriacks (2019) conducted an evidencebased<br />
quality improvement project with a<br />
quasi-experimental design. <strong>The</strong> purpose of<br />
this study was to empower nurses with direct<br />
responsibility for HAPI prevention, ensure patients<br />
were repositioned every two hours, and remove<br />
barriers to allow staff to reach this expectation.<br />
<strong>The</strong> study took place in a 36-bed medical<br />
surgical pulmonary unit in an academic medical<br />
center. <strong>The</strong> population included 36 adults that<br />
were at higher acuity with multiple risk factors<br />
for occurrence of pressure injury. <strong>The</strong> study<br />
implemented turn teams who turned the patients<br />
every two hours and found that the reduction of<br />
hospital acquired pressure injury decreased by<br />
75%, no new pressure injuries occurred on the<br />
coccyx, sacrum, heel, or ischium for any patients,<br />
and staff benefitted in that they were engaged,<br />
teamwork was enhanced, and time saving was<br />
notable.<br />
Daravall, Mesfin, and Gorelik (2018) conducted<br />
a quasi-experimental prospective intervention<br />
evaluation study. <strong>The</strong> study was conducted at<br />
Royal Melbourne Hospital ICU and included<br />
adult critically ill patients that were admitted to<br />
the ICU; the sample included a pre-intervention<br />
group, with 1094 patients, and a post-intervention<br />
group, with 1165 patients. <strong>The</strong> total sample size<br />
was 2259 patients. <strong>The</strong> studied interventions were<br />
a five-hourly turn schedule, the pre-intervention<br />
group, and a three-hourly turn schedule, the<br />
post-intervention group, and the interventions<br />
effect on pressure injury and decubitus injury<br />
incidence. <strong>The</strong> results concluded that there was<br />
a 49% reduction in the risk of pressure injuries and<br />
the rate of decubitus pressure injury fell from 62.5%<br />
to 25.0% when the turning schedule was changed<br />
from five-hourly to three-hourly.<br />
De Meyer, Van Hecke, Verhaeghe, &<br />
Beeckman (2019) conducted a three-arm,<br />
randomized, controlled pragmatic trial. This<br />
study was conducted to see the outcomes of<br />
repositioning with the Turn and Position System<br />
on patients and what that does for nurse<br />
compliance, the incidence of pressure ulcers,<br />
patient comfort, and budget. This study included<br />
226 patients, all patients who are 18 years and<br />
older that are at risk for pressure ulcers. <strong>The</strong><br />
intervention included repositioning that varied<br />
every one to four hours using devices such as<br />
the Prevalon Turn and Position System. <strong>The</strong> results<br />
concluded that the nurses’ compliance to<br />
repositioning was increased significantly. Few<br />
pressure ulcers and incontinence-associated<br />
dermatitis incidents occurred, 2.22% of patients<br />
compared to the mean prevalence of 20.9%<br />
before the trial. Patients reported their comfort as<br />
a 6.1/10. <strong>The</strong> cost of materials to prevent pressure<br />
ulcers increased to $15.40 per day, but the cost<br />
of treating pressure ulcers ($2.52-$83.43 per day)<br />
went down through prevention.<br />
Harmon, Grobbel, and Palleschi (2016)<br />
conducted a descriptive correlational study. <strong>The</strong><br />
purpose of this study was to analyze outcomes<br />
of a quality improvement project that evaluated<br />
a Turn Team intervention for prevention of facilityacquired<br />
pressure injuries. <strong>The</strong> study took place in<br />
a Midwest teaching hospital with twelve surgical<br />
intensive care units. <strong>The</strong> findings were that unit<br />
acquired pressure injury occurrence declined<br />
from 24.9% to 16.8% following implementation<br />
of the intervention; evaluation of verbal cueing<br />
intervention to increase compliance with regular<br />
patient repositioning and achieved a 77.8%<br />
compliance rate; and half the participants<br />
indicated that the turn team provided adequate<br />
two-hour reminders needed for turning.<br />
Kahn & Jonusas (2019) conducted a quasiexperimental<br />
quality improvement project that<br />
looked at the effectiveness of "turn teams" in a<br />
51-bed medical-surgical unit in the southeastern<br />
United States. <strong>The</strong> population consisted of all<br />
adult patients at risk for developing pressure<br />
injuries which was evidenced by a Braden Scale<br />
score of 18 or below and the inability to turn<br />
independently in bed. Turn Teams were used to<br />
turn these at-risk patients every two hours. Unitacquired<br />
pressure injury data was assessed 12<br />
months before implementation of Turn Teams<br />
and 12 months after implementation. Weekly<br />
skin assessment audits were also performed for<br />
a 12-month period after implementation. <strong>The</strong><br />
results included that the number of unit-acquired<br />
pressure injuries over a 12-month period was<br />
reduced by 54 percent.<br />
Conclusion:<br />
Five out of the six studies found a statistically<br />
significant decrease in the incidence of pressure<br />
injuries with the implementation of regular<br />
repositioning schedule. However, the study by<br />
Chew, Thiara, Lopez, and Shorey showed that<br />
having widespread pressure redistributing airmattresses<br />
in hospitals and nursing homes can<br />
be used to prevent pressure ulcer development,<br />
while reducing the need to reposition patients.<br />
Implications of Nursing Practice:<br />
Preventing pressure injuries is important<br />
because they are associated with increased<br />
mortality and cost of care. <strong>The</strong> evidence showed<br />
that the implementation of turn teams utilizing a<br />
regular timed repositioning schedule is beneficial<br />
to reduce the incidence of pressure injuries<br />
in patients with decreased mobility. Pressure<br />
relieving hospital beds can also be implemented<br />
to reduce the incidence of pressure injuries.<br />
Healthcare facilities need to implement a variety<br />
of pressure prevention interventions to prevent<br />
healthcare related pressure injuries.<br />
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