Toolkit
Pressure Injury Toolkit Resources
Tools, forms and resources for health professionals
Tools, forms and resources for health professionals
Toolkit forms and tools
- SCI PI Toolkit Clinician Checklist
- SAMPLE Wound and Contributing Factors Assessment Form
- Skin Management Needs Assessment Checklist
- Bed Rest Factsheet
- SAMPLE Positioning Plan
- SAMPLE Gradual Return to Sitting Plan
- Skin monitoring routine factsheet
Other forms and tools
- Waterlow Pressure Ulcer Scale: SCIRE Clinical Summary and Tool
- Braden Scale: SCIRE Clinical Summary and Tool
- Autonomic Dysreflexia Treatment Algorithm
- NSW Clinical Excellence Commission. Sepsis Kills, includes pathway and resources.
- Bates-Jensen Wound Assessment Tool (BWAT)
- Photographic Wound Assessment Tool (PWAT)
- Pressure Ulcer Scale for Healing (PUSH)
- Malnutrition Screening Tool (MST)
- The Pressure Management Assessment Tool (PMAT) designed by Jennifer Birt
- Hospital Anxiety Depression Scale (HADS)
- Depression Anxiety and Stress Scale -21 (DASS-21)
- Brief Psychosocial Clinical Assessment Tool
- CAGE / CAGE AID
- Evaluating your pressure ulcer prevention plan: A problem solving worksheet for people with SCI and their health care providers
- NSW Spinal Outreach Service (SOS) Clinical Considerations for Bed Rest
- Queensland Spinal Outreach Team (SPOT): Information and assessment tool to guide pressure redistribution mattresses (PRM) selection
Paediatrics
- Paediatric Sepsis Pathway – Clinical Excellence Commission
- Screening Tool for the Assessment of Malnutrition in Paediatrics (STAMP)
- Self Care Development Chart for Children
Major Resources
- NSW ACI SSCIS (2014). State Spinal Cord Injury Service Model of Care for Prevention and Integrated Management of Pressure Injuries in People with Spinal Cord Injury and Spina Bifida. Agency for Clinical Innovation.
- Houghton PE, Campbell KE and CPG Panel (2013). Canadian Best Practice Guidelines for the Prevention and Management of Pressure Ulcers in People with Spinal Cord Injury. A resource handbook for clinicians.
- Consortium for Spinal Cord Medicine (2014). Pressure Ulcer Prevention and Treatment Following Injury: A Clinical Practice Guideline for Health-Care Providers 2nd ed. Paralyzed Veterans of America.
- National Pressure Ulcer Advisory Panel, European Pressure Ulcer Advisory Panel and Pan Pacific Pressure Injury Alliance (2014). Prevention and Treatment of Pressure Ulcers: Clinical Practice Guideline. Emily Haesler (Ed.) Cambridge Media: Perth, Australia.
- Spinal Cord Injury Research Evidence (SCIRE) Project
- Health Education and Training Institute (HETI) e-Learning Course: Pressure Injury Prevention and Management (HETI Online Course Code: 42032699).
- elearnSCI.org (Free log in).
- NSW Agency for Clinical Innovation (ACI) Spinal Cord Injury Resources.
- Spinal Seating Professional Development Program. Agency for Clinical Innovation and NSW State Spinal Cord Injury Service 2017.
- Lifestyle Redesign® for Pressure Ulcer Prevention in Spinal Cord Injury project. University of Southern California (USC) and Rancho Los Amigos National Rehabilitation Center (RLANRC).
- SCI-U for Healthy Living E-Leaning about SCI
- Wounds Australia.
- ACI SSCIS Emotional wellbeing toolkit: a clinician’s guide to working with spinal cord injury
- ACI SCI Pain Navigator
- Clinical Excellence Commission: Pressure Injury Prevention Project
- Paediatric: Clinical Excellence Commission Paediatric Quality Program: Pressure Injury Prevention
- Sydney Children’s Hospital Network Factsheets for Spina Bifida and SCI
- Clinical Excellence Commission: Pressure injury prevention for children in hospital.
Resources for consumers and carers
Resources for consumers and carers
Toolkit forms and tools
Resources
- Consortium for Spinal Cord Medicine. Pressure Ulcers: What you should know.2002
- The Craig Hospital. Educational Video: Skin Care after spinal cord injury
- Model Systems Knowledge Translation Centre. Skin Care and Pressure Sores in Spinal Cord Injury.
- Lifestyle Redesign® for Pressure Ulcer Prevention in Spinal Cord Injury project. University of Southern California (USC) and Rancho Los Amigos National Rehabilitation Center (RLANRC).
- ACI. What to do if you are hospitalised: a guide for people with spinal cord injury. 2010
- The Craig Hospital. Switching to a power chair. 2015
- Ontario Neurotrauma Foundation. Preventing and treating pressure sores - A guide for people with spinal cord injury. 2015
- Model Systems Knowledge Translation Centre. Safe Transfer Technique
- Model Systems Knowledge Translation Centre. Spasticity and Spinal Cord Injury
Paediatric specific resources: