The following column was originally published Sept. 30, 2023. Thanks to breakthroughs in medicine and nutrition in recent years, we are living longer than ever before. But this increase in life ...

Those areas should also be checked at least once a day for symptoms that a bedsore may be starting. Using creams and lotions can help keep the skin healthy and may reduce the likelihood of it breaking ...

Likewise, for every 10% increase in travel nurse care, there was a 0.7% increase in bedsore risk, researchers reported. More than half the hospitals in the study used more nurse overtime and nurse ...

Nurse staffing agencies or nurse overtime is sometimes needed to meet staffing shortages But the more these measures are used, the more the risk of bedsores increases among patients Originally ...

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