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This tool is designed to assess your unit's Comfort Bath product use and determine your staff's compliance to your bathing protocol.
Does your facility have a patient bathing protocol? How committed is your staff to your patient bathing protocol? Is your patient bathing product being used properly?
A study published in the American Journal of Critical Care found Comfort Bath to be ideally suited for bathing bedridden patients.1 While full-body cleansing is important, so is moisturizing2-4 and completing a full skin inspection.5-7 Comfort Bath is uniquely equipped to help you with all of these requirements.
To assess your Comfort Bath usage and compliance rate, you will need the following information:
1) Number of Comfort Bath cases your facility/unit uses per month
2) Number of hospital or unit beds
3) Average census as a percentage of total hospital/unit beds
4) Average percentage of bedridden patients
To begin, please log in below. Enter your email address and password, and then click NEXT.
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| 1. Larson El, et al., Am J Crit Care. May 2004;13(3):235-41. 2. Bryant RA, Rolstad BS, Ost/Wound Mgmt. June 2001;47(6):18-27. 3. Kron-Chalupa J, et al., "The basinless bath: a study on skin dryness and patient satisfaction," Iowa City VA Medical Center. 4. Spencer C, Taking Care: A Guide for Nursing Assistants. 2nd ed., Nursing Assistant Training Institute, Shoreline WA, 1999:148-9. 5. Wound, Ostomy, and Continence Nurses Society (WOCN), Guideline for prevention and management of pressure ulcers. Glenview IL, WOCN; 2003, Clin Practice Guideline No. 2. 6. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ - formerly AHCPR), Pressure ulcers in adults: prediction and prevention. Rockville MD: US Dept Health & Human Svcs, Public Health Svc, AHCPR; 1992 (reviewed 2000), Clin Practice Guideline No. 3. 7. National Pressure Ulcer Advisory Panel (NPUAP), Pressure Ulcer Prevention Points. Reston VA, 1993. |
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