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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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