Here are some of the 2024 activities your colleagues shared with NPIAP
Corwell Health |  "Corewell Health went BIG with 2024 WWPIPD! Staff were very engaged and thrilled with the fun theme of "Protect the Peach". We achieved our goal which was to increase awareness of risk, reinforce education and to bring joy to team members. This fun effort was a hugely collaborative effort lead by the pressure injury CNS, Skin Champions, WOCN, Nursing Education, Quality Improvement, Clinical Managers, Communications & Marketing and Corewell Health Leadership.
- 4 Days of rounding with an activity cart.
- Stage the Peach Game - See photo of peaches with PI
- Sharing of Resources/Tools
- Peach stickers
- Electronic PI Quiz to be entered into a drawing for a gift cart.
- Badge buddies with staging cues.
- Home made cookies and other treats
Together, we hope to reduce the incidence of pressure injuries!"
| Comer Health & Rehabilitation, Georgia |  "My facility Comer Health & Rehabilitation in Comer, Georgia USA participated in World Wide Pressure Injury Prevention Day 2024. Prevention is the responsibility of everyone- no matter where or what part of the world you are in.
Prevention comes together like a quilt- each department represents a quilt square and what they provide for prevention is the stitching that holds the quilt together. The more departments/families that come together make the prevention hold together better. At Comer we are a family coming together with care, compassion and love. This was posted at our entrance for families, visitors and all staff to view all through the day. Education given to all as to how important each and every one is in the prevention of pressure injury prevention. Families and visitors as well enjoyed the quilt and information and voiced better understanding of prevention."
| San Vincente de Paul Hospital, Costa Rica | | "Greetings from San Vicente de Paul Hospital in Costa Rica. The local committee prepared an educational video to publish on social media and hospitalized patients, in order to help prevent pressure injuries." View the video here. | Harris Health Lyndon B. Johnson Hospital, Houston |  "We had a great week with a daily Survey Monkey Quiz and Swag for Winners. We had Prevention Day event with Cart questions and prizes. We shared the Brochure with patients."
 
| ECU Health Medical Center, Greenville, North Carolina |  "The Wound Team Members at ECU Health Medical Center in Greenville, NC did unit rounding with skee-ball game for trivia questions and prizes. The theme this year was "bundle up" to stop pressure injuries and we focused on our quality skin bundle." | Gentell Inc., Pennsylvania |  "At Gentell our focus is not solely on healing these pressure injuries, but also the prevention of pressure injuries. We pride ourselves on the educational opportunities that we can tailor make to serve the needs of your facility. Let's celebrate the empowerment of our nurse aides and nurses so that they have the tools and education that they need to heal and prevent pressure injuries!Integrated Wound Healing distributes these awesome posters every year to their facilities that they service. Such a great reminder and visual about the importance of pressure ulcer prevention! "
Find more information here. | Mount Sinai Queens, New York |  "Mount Sinai Queens celebrated Worldwide Pressure Injury Prevention Day 2024 today with unit rounds led by our WOCN extraordinaire Alla Yusupova. Today was an opportunity for our nursing teams and collaborating care team partners to play games to learn skin and wound care facts, to acknowledge how what they do day in and day out makes a difference in optimal patient outcomes, and to give kudos to the #woundtreatmentassociates in our hospital. Thanks to Eloisa Javier for assisting with rounds and our nursing teams for being so engaged!"
Find more information here.
| Prince Mohammed bin Abdulaziz Hospital, Saudi Arabia |  "Started the day with scientific lectures. Second part is the PRESSURE INJURY PREVENTION AWARENESS VIDEO MAKING CONTEST. 3rd is the booth exhibition in the lobby. Attendees enjoyed the ice cream and became instant models in our photo booth. This is an amazing day with the collaboration of PRESSURE INJURY PREVENTION COMMITTEE OF PRINCE MOHAMMED BIN ABDULAZIZ HOSPITAL."
Find more information here.
| Fayetteville VA Costal Health Care System, North Carolina |  "The objective of this day is to increase awareness about pressure injuries and to provide education about risk factors. Did you know prolonged exposure to moisture from can weaken the skin, leading to an increased risk of pressure injuries? Thankful to partner with WOCN, Danielle Freudenberg, BSN, RN, CWS in her efforts to provide education to staff on how to protect skin integrity and prevent complications. Way to go, Danielle!"
Find more information here.
| YOİHD Yara Ostomi İnkontinans Hemşireleri Derneği, Istanbul, Turkey |  "Pressure injuries are preventable: Interdisciplinary cooperation, individualized evidence-based prevention program and allocation of adequate resources are essential. YOİHD Yara Ostomi İnkontinans Hemşireleri Derneği leads the development of awareness programs, training and policies for the prevention of pressure injuries."
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Conway Medical Center, Conway, South Carolina
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 "At
Conway Medical Center in Conway, SC, the wound care coordinator and the Skin Team roved on the nursing units to provide education and play a Kahoot game with the nursing staff. We had a group of nursing students here for a clinical.
So of course we included them too. We also did a dance using our waffle overlays and cushions to the back drop of the Wobble song. "
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Penn Medicine Princeton Medical Center, New Jersey |  "We provide rounding cart to all staff while providing them with their own stress butts!! Everyone engages in activities and takes away some new information."
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Aydnan Menderes University, Aydin, Turkey
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"Worldwide Pressure Injury Prevention Day was organized. Organized awareness raising events to share information about pressure injury. Many training was given in different units at a university hospital in Turkey. The objective of Worldwide Pressure Injury Prevention Day is to increase awareness about pressure injury prevention and to educate the nurses on this topic. Freely available materials provided by EPUAP (European Pressure Ulcer Advisory Panel) and NPIAP were used."
Watch the video here.
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Here are some of the 2023 activities your colleagues shared with NPIAP
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Al Zahra Hospital, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
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 "Learning is best when you're having fun! This year, we decided to have an interactive campaign for Pressure Injury Prevention with games and prizes for our in-patient units using a mobile caravan. Our nurses (and doctor, Dr. ANAS MASSAD Acting HOD - ICU) participated in guessing the jumbled words, marking the pressure points and challenging a colleague for a word search match! The spirit of teamwork is strong in each unit! Thank you for joining and congratulations to all the participants! Indeed, it was a fun day in Al Zahra Hospital!"
Find more information here.
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Cedars - Sinai Medical Center, Beverly Hills
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 "In order to raise awareness of Worldwide Pressure Prevention Day, our WOC nursing team provides pressure injury prevention education to our staff using our custom-made pressure injury prevention cart as a way to reinforce our facility’s pressure injury prevention and moisture management protocols. Besides that, we also promote the use of thermal imaging in our facility to early detect and confirm Deep Tissue Pressure Injury, so that we can provide treatment in a timely fashion. In addition, our Pressure Ulcer Prevention (PUP) stars play a major role in NDNQI HAPI Prevalence Study by checking every patient’ a skin to make sure to stop pressure injuries at the source!!! Our WOC nursing team also informs our PUP stars regarding the upcoming Wound Education Day by WOCN society to enhance their knowledge in wound care."
Find more information here.
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Corewell Health West
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 "Our most important obligation to our patients in the hospital is to keep them safe from harm.Today, we join hospitals across the globe in observing @National Pressure Injury Advisory Panel (NPIAP) Worldwide Pressure Injury Prevention Day.Preventing injury to patients in our care is a top priority for all of us at @Corewell Health. Our teams are working hard to address pressure injuries.I’d like to thank all the nurses and wound care teams who are partnering together with Quality Safety and Experience to keep our patients safe and joining us in our efforts to STOP pressure injuries."
Find more information here.
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Here are some of the 2022 activities your colleagues shared with NPIAP:
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University of North Carolina Greensboro
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For National Pressure Injury Awareness Day, I am leading the 2nd annual self-learning PIP fair for UNCG SoN for all undergraduate and graduate nursing students. Last year I developed this fair and once again privileged to do
it again.
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NYP-Westchester
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The NYP-Westchester (formerly NYP Lawrence) Skin Care Champions brought back our very own “Woundie & Stomie” for the second year in a row. “Woundie & Stomie” shared pressure injury prevention and management tips, while providing a quick refresher on wound and ostomy care skills to our frontline staff.
This year, Woundie & Stomie v 3.0 will return to spread awareness during Worldwide Pressure Injury Prevention Day 2022. We’ll be sure to share photos with NPIAP.
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Here are some of the 2021 activities your colleagues shared with NPIAP:
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HAPI Prevention Day, UC San Diego Health
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"On November 18, 2021, the UC San Diego Health Hillcrest Inpatient Medicine Nursing Division will be hosting
the UCSD Health 3rd
Annual Hospital Acquired Pressure Injury (HAPI) Prevention Dayin collaboration with the Skin Wound and Treatment Team (SWATT). Every year, the third Thursday of November is recognized as HAPI Prevention Day in alignment with the celebration of World Wide Pressure Injury Prevention Day. The objective is to increase awareness about pressure injury prevention and to educate healthcare teams as well as the public on this topic. Plan on attending this event. We have great speakers, fun educational games
Wound Jeopardy, Wheel of PI (pressure injury), HAPI Bones, Braden Bingo, and you earn 5 CEU’s!!!
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Find more information here.
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Medela - How to Decrease Pressure Injury Rates Video
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"At Medela, we celebrate WOC Nurses and ask them to share their inspiring stories. Christy Williams shared how she brings awareness to pressure injury prevention by inviting nurses to shadow her for a day. Watch the video
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Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, New Hampshire
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"The third Thursday of every month is our Pressure Injury Prevention Safety Champion Meeting. We will be having our monthly meeting which includes reviewing pressure injuries, their stages and prevention specific to our institution and units. We will acknowledge the day in our meeting, and each Safety Champion will receive a thank you card signed by the Safety Champion Program faculty. After the meeting we take decorated carts with hot drinks and snacks around to the nursing units. We also give out the NPIAP Stop Pressure Injury Buttons and the NPIAP Stop PI Fact Sheet.
We did this last year and the drinks, snacks and pressure injury information were well received by staff. They like having the color visual reference to refer to and it reminds everyone to implement pressure injury prevention measures."
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The Department of Wound and Ostomy, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
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 "CSMC will celebrate the World Wide Pressure Injury Prevention 2021 not only for a day but for a week.
The Pressure Injury Prevention week will start on November 11th and end on November 18th. November 11th is the day that we are going to conduct our Pressure injury prevalence survey with the hospital’s Pressure Ulcer/ Injury Prevention (PUP) stars. We are going to wear our Pressure Injury Awareness shirts and NPIAP’s “STOP PI” buttons. We started wearing our shirts last year when we created our hospital wide HAPI Prevention Taskforce. The CSMC WOC nurses, PUP stars and Nurse leaders wear the shirts and buttons on PI prevalence days every quarter.
We will display the NPIAP posters for the entire week, and for 2 hours each day of the week we will visit each nursing unit and bring our “STOP PI cart” with activities promoting Pressure injury prevention, identification and staging of Pressure injuries utilizing the buttock model, use of appropriate skin and wound care interventions with giveaways and prizes. We will use “spin the wheel” for skin and wound care interventions game and the “pin the tail” game on the buttock map (Berke/Morris 2015) for more fun and excitement in identifying PI locations.
Thank you NPIAP for helping us celebrate World Wide Pressure Injury prevention, please find attached photos of our WOCN team."
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