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Advancing Veteran-Centered Pressure Injury Prevention

Wednesday November 18 | 1 PM ET

New Webinar: Advancing Veteran-Centered Pressure Injury Prevention: Understanding the New VA/DoD Guideline and the Role of SEM Scanning The New VA/DoD Guideline Puts SEM Assessment on the Map for VHA Facilities  Pressure injuries can start forming beneath the skin up to 10 days before anything shows on the surface. For Veterans, that hidden window is…

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The Pressure Injury Prevention Confidence Gap:

October 29, 2026

What 59 CNOs Told Us About Tools, Time, and Zero Harm  Read on for highlights from the webinar and watch the full recording below. The complete 2026 CNO Pulse Report, with every survey finding and the five-dimension prevention readiness framework, is now available to download here. Nursing leaders trust their teams to prevent pressure injuries.…

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Nurse Leaders Trust Their Teams, Not Tools, to Prevent Pressure Injuries Leading Up to 2028 eCQM HH-PI Reporting Mandate

October 29, 2026

Press Release: Majority of Chief Nursing Officers have no finalized plan for mandatory pressure injury reporting LOS ANGELES, October 29, 2026 – Chief Nursing Officers (CNOs) at large U.S. hospitals are confident in their nursing teams, but not in the tools those teams use to prevent pressure injuries, according to The Pressure Injury Prevention Confidence…

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CNO Pulse: The Pressure Injury Prevention Confidence Gap

October 28, 2026

Why pressure injury prevention gets crowded out, and why it may be the most useful lever nurse leaders have.

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From Guideline to Bedside: Making Pressure Injury Prevention Actionable 

September 30, 2026

The new guideline changes less than its complexity suggests. Two wound care experts say the real work is turning it into protocols, workflows and data that bedside teams can act on.  The updated International Pressure Injury Guideline will not lower pressure injury rates on its own. Its value depends on whether each facility turns it into clear protocols,…

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VA/DOD 2026 Pressure Injury Guideline Recommends SEM Measurement to Find Damage Days Before It Shows

September 24, 2026

Pressure injuries cost VA facilities up to $3.6 billion a year. In one study the guideline reviewed, patients assessed with SEM had 93% fewer pressure injuries. LOS ANGELES, September 24, 2026 -- The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and the Department of Defense (DOD) have published their clinical practice guideline for pressure injuries, and it…

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Understanding the Pressure Injury Prevention Guidelines

August 26, 2026

Only One Advanced Assessment Technology Earned a Recommendation in the International Pressure Injury Guideline On August 7, 2026, the NPIAP/EPUAP/PPPIA International Pressure Injury Guideline published its Advanced Technologies for Skin and Tissue Assessment chapter; the first update to the guideline since 2019. Clinical practice guidelines are intended to give clinicians clear guidance on how to…

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Zero Pressure Injuries Is an Operating Discipline, Not an Effort Problem

August 20, 2026

Across seven facilities and 31 units, including 16 ICUs, seven step-down units, and eight other clinical units, 28 of the 31 units (90.3%) reached zero hospital-acquired pressure injuries during their evaluation periods. The three that fell short still improved substantially. What separated them was not effort, since every unit was already working hard. It was…

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SEM Scanning Elevated to Recommended Pressure Injury Prevention Technology in Global Guideline

August 13, 2026

SEM Scanning Crosses the Global Guideline Threshold: Elevated to Recommended Pressure Injury Prevention Technology The world’s leading pressure injury Clinical Practice Guideline moves objective focal edema measurement from emerging technology to recommended practice, citing a “window of opportunity for enhanced prevention” driven by earlier detection, safer patient care, improved equity and lower cost. Every nurse…

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SEM Scanning and eCQM HH-PI Documentation

July 28, 2026

As hospitals prepare for electronic clinical quality measure reporting for Hospital Harm—Pressure Injury (eCQM CMS826), clinical teams are asking an important question: Can sub-epidermal moisture (SEM) assessment support present on admission documentation? The answer is YES. SEM assessment has a direct, evidence-based connection to pressure injury documentation and coding when its findings are interpreted within…

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