Smith And Nephew: Article Analysis

In this article, Ballarat Health Service through cooperating with Nursing Practice Solution, Smith and Nephew tries to improve patient and economic outcomes by the implementation of Wound Care Improvement program. The Wound Care Improvement program has been introduce in Ontario, Canada and the target has been realized, thus Ballarat Health Service adopt the same method to do the survey in its own service which operating 782 inpatient beds. The time that the research performed at three different periods august 2009, march 2011 and June 2012. The results show that the number of pressure injury was decline at three different period and the total pressure injury point prevalence data was decline as well from 11% in august 2009 to 3.7% June 2012.
Besides that other aspects such as the ability and knowledge of health care staff and comprehensiveness of wound documentation were improved. Moreover, the reducing pressure injury prevalence leads to the reduced length of bed days. As a result, as much as 10,132 bed days was saved in 2012 through using the equation.
This article presented the implementation of Wound Care Improvement program definitely reduce the number of pressure injuries from 2009 to 2012. Additionally, the declining length of bed staying days indicates the program was benefit to improve the patients’ condition. Thus it could be forecasted that the continuous applying of program would effectively prevent the pressure injury in clinical. However to research the usefulness of program, the time is not in consistent of each year and there are only 3 years to do the research. The different time would influence the results’ veracity and the short time span make the result unreliable. The survey about the education and training is not useful for the result. This article did not compared the result of patients’ condition before and after staffs received education and training. Besides that, the level of health care staff is the same, after they received the training the ability would increase integrally. Thus the compared group should be established to compare with variation group. This article mainly researches the method to improve the outcomes for the patient who has already suffering from pressure sores. However, the result illustrates the useful of Wound care program in clinical practice. The result reflects the continuous applying of program could prevent the pressure injury effectively.