What’s New
Reduce administrative task burdens to help fight nursing burnout
Nurse burnout has multiple factors, including administrative burdens in healthcare. Here are 3 ways to make clinical documentation less stressful.
Improve chronic wound outcomes: Standardize care across the continuum
Learn new ways to share and collaborate between acute and post-acute care to ensure seamless care and positive outcomes for chronic wound patients.
Compression therapy: The challenges our clinicians discovered
Studies show a lack of clinician knowledge means many candidates for compression therapy do not receive appropriate treatment.
Venous stasis disease: What staff should know to help improve care
Venous leg ulcers can be painful and costly. Empower staff with must-know strategies to manage venous stasis disease before it leads to serious skin injury.
Treating venous leg ulcers? Compression has come a long way since the Unna boot
When it comes to healing venous leg ulcers, old ways of thinking can lead to poor outcomes. Explore advanced treatment options to drive better outcomes.
NEW WEBINAR WITH LIVE Q&A
ICD-10-CM Codes for Moisture-Associated Skin Damage
Thurs., October 20, 12 pm (CST)
Best Practices
Five-layer foam dressing: How this innovative technology helps you care for wounds
Learn how a layered wound care dressing helps fight friction and shear for patients at risk for skin breakdown.
How do you help prevent pressure injuries at the heels?
Preventing pressure injuries/ulcers is an important aspect of both clinical care and the healthcare system at large.
Fight MASD with the right system of products
Healthy skin needs moisture, but too much can compromise skin integrity and cause harm. Moisture damage often occurs when patients are incontinent, but moisture can also be a problem for any age group and on many different areas of the body.
Prevention & Treatment
Venous leg ulcers: How to heal and prevent recurrence
Download a handout that helps patients understand how to prevent venous leg ulcers, care for their own VLU at home and prevent recurring wounds.
Pressure injury prevention: Current state and its implications
During the height of COVID-19, as the number of critically ill patients and residents increased, caregivers suddenly needed to redirect their time and resources away from skin health.
Pressure injury prevention in the ED: Support surfaces matter
Higher patient volumes in the ED driven by Covid mean higher risk of PIs. Learn how you can refocus staff on best practices to help prevent skin breakdown.
Operational Performance
Riverside Healthcare: A case study on systemness
Systemness began with standardizing wound care.
Healthcare economics: Costs of preventing versus treating skin breakdown
Clinicians work hard to protect patients from skin damage that may contribute to pressure injuries. But preventable pressure injuries/ulcers still occur.
Health economics: The right wound care products help drive cost savings
How choosing the right wound care products can help improve patient outcomes and save money
Creating a supply formulary that works
8 steps to take to standardize and cut costs.
News room
- September 27, 2022Medline clinical assessments: Helping hospitals get protocols back on track
Ongoing staff shortages have disrupted and upended many hospital protocols, potentially increasing healthcare-acquired conditions (HACs), diminishing patient outcomes, and impacting performance-based… - August 2, 2022McKnight’s: Wound care experts deepen training resolve post-COVID
Fewer staff with less experience means a renewed focus on skin care basics. The post McKnight’s: Wound care experts deepen training resolve post-COVID appeared first on Medline Newsroom. - August 2, 2022McKnight’s: A golden era of innovation in wound care is approaching
Technology and improved practices are merging to create new and successful strategies for preventing and treating chronic wounds. The post McKnight’s: A golden era of innovation in wound care is… - June 2, 2022Medline introduces enhanced Optifoam Gentle EX foam dressing to help pressure injury prevention
Medline’s Optifoam Gentle EX is designed to help displace pressure when used with pressure injury prevention protocol The post Medline introduces enhanced Optifoam Gentle EX foam dressing to help pres… - May 31, 2022Medline now offering live, virtual skin health boot camps to post-acute care providers
Free, virtual courses are designed for novice to experienced clinicians in wound and skin care, and cover a broad-range of topics — from assessing, documenting and measuring wounds to pain management…
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