Running Head: Literature Review
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Literature Review
Nazaire Baptiste
Grand Canyon University; NRS 490
August 25, 2019
Literature Review
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Literature Review
Pressure Injury refers to skin injury that is normally caused by some affront pressure,
shear, friction or the combination of the three risk factors (Montenegro de Albuquerque, de Melo
Buriti Vasconcelos, and Guimarães Oliveira Soares, 2018). Most PI develops on hard body parts
causing harm to the encompassing skin and sometimes delicate tissues (Montenegro de
Albuquerque et al., 2018). Given the present health care environment, hospital-acquired pressure
injuries are the greatest concern for facilities offering long term care and inpatient services. Even
though the HAPI’s have proved to affect the facility budget reimbursement, it has stood out as a
significant area of preventing and program building (Powers, 2016). Establishing the existing
literature on the topic from peer-reviewed articles will be the objective of this paper pointing the
emphasis more of the necessary recommendation for future research.
To critically analyze the articles for this paper, the research questions of each article were
linked to each other where some dealt with interventions or improvements which had significant
chances of improving the patients’ outcomes. The author analyzed a total of eight articles to
ensure that there was substantive evidence of the factors associated with pressure injuries. Out of
the total articles, 25% highlighted the significance of nursing skills in preventions, management,
and treatment of pressure injuries. 38% of the articles discussed the prevalence and the incidence
