Föredra att förebygga - En litteraturstudie om sjuksköterskans preventiva insatser mot trycksår.
Pressure ulcers cause a lot of patients unnecessary suffering. This suffering could be decreased through improved knowledge about prevention, so that pressure ulcer will not appear. The purpose with this review was to study how nurses assess risk and prevent pressure ulcer, and to study how nurses use available knowledge. The method consisted of searches in databases and searching trough references. Our result is based on ten articles, qualitative, quantitative and reviews. The result shows that nurses seldom assess risks systematical with risk assessment scale, although this is recommended in the guidelines. Nurses knowledge about the guidelines and new science are seldom updated. The conclusion was that implication of systematical risk assessment with the Norton scale according to the Swedish guidelines, and by using Virginia Hendersons theory about fundamental caring could prevent pressure ulcer.