Pressure Injury Prevention Bundle

The Pressure Injury Prevention Bundle ensures consistent execution of evidence-based nursing interventions such as turning, skin checks, and moisture management. It aligns these tasks to each patient’s Braden risk score and monitors completion in real time, alerting staff and supervisors when preventive measures are missed or delayed.

Why it matters

Pressure injuries remain among the most costly and preventable hospital-acquired conditions. Even a single missed turning event or unverified skin check can lead to patient harm and regulatory exposure. By digitizing bundle elements and linking them to dynamic risk scores, this tool moves prevention from reactive to proactive.

Benefits

• Improves compliance: Standardizes preventive care documentation and prompts timely completion of required tasks.
• Reduces harm: Escalates early warnings for patients trending toward higher Braden risk categories.
• Strengthens accountability: Provides time-stamped, auditable records for nursing leadership and regulatory review.
• Drives quality improvement: Surfaces compliance trends by unit, shift, and intervention type to guide staff education.

Capabilities

• Risk-linked task automation: Pulls Braden risk scores and automatically schedules required interventions by shift or interval (e.g., turning every 2 hours).
• Smart nudges: Sends in-app reminders or alerts when turning, skin checks, or moisture care tasks are overdue.
• Photo and wound documentation: Integrates with secure imaging workflows to capture wound progress and preventive care evidence.
• Care plan alignment: Synchronizes bundle compliance with EMR nursing care plans for full visibility.
• Supervisor and QI dashboards: Displays compliance scores, missed tasks, and outcome correlations by unit or enterprise.
• Audit-ready reporting: Exports structured data for quality and root-cause analysis using IHE ATNA or FHIR AuditEvent resources.
• Cross-domain interoperability: Supports exchange of wound care documentation with third-party systems (e.g., WOCN or teledermatology tools).

Great for

• Nursing Teams & Unit Supervisors: Maintain continuous visibility into bundle task completion, receive nudges for overdue interventions, and ensure Braden-based prioritization.
• Quality Improvement & Patient Safety Officers: Track compliance trends, correlate with reduction in hospital-acquired pressure injuries (HAPIs), and prepare defensible reports for accreditation.
• Clinical Informatics & EMR Analysts: Integrate risk scoring, task automation, and documentation workflows using SMART on FHIR and HL7-aligned audit structures.
• Wound Care Specialists: Access real-time wound photo evidence and risk trajectories to guide intervention and follow-up.

Integration & Standards Alignment

• FHIR R4 compliant (Observation, CarePlan, Task, AuditEvent, Media)
• SMART on FHIR context launch from patient chart or task list
• Compatible with EMR-based risk assessments (Braden, Norton, Waterlow)
• Supports IHE ATNA for audit trail export and compliance verification