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ADDITIONAL RECOMMENDATIONS FOR OPTIMAL CARE Again, our QIs represent minimal standards for acceptable care. Best practice guidelines include additional recommendations for improving mobility, enhancing incontinence care, performing regular skin inspections, and conducting other preventative interventions. Ready to review these recommended steps with an eye toward implementation? Then check out these resources: Our training module on incontinence management presents instructions and protocols for accomplishing each of the four steps required to implement an effective prompted voiding program, a behavioral management intervention that has been shown to significantly improve continence. Our training module on mobility decline prevention presents instructions and protocols for implementing a fitness program that maintains or improves mobility among even the most functionally impaired residents. Best practice guidelines for PU care, including early intervention to prevent PU development, are available from these agencies. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Clinical Practice Guidelines: Pressure Ulcer Prevention and Pressure Ulcer Treatment American Medical Directors Association Clinical Practice Guideline: Pressure Ulcers and Clinical Practice Guideline: Pressure Ulcer Therapy Companion University of Iowa Gerontological Nursing Interventions Research Center Practice Guideline: Treatment of Pressure Ulcers Wound, Ostomy, and Continence Nurses Society Guideline for the Prevention and Management of Pressure Ulcers Paralyzed Veterans of America Pressure Ulcer Prevention and Treatment following Spinal Cord Injury: A Clinical Practice Guideline for Health-Care Professionals (prev | next)

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