H E A LT H CA R E
Paying It Forward
Kate Rowe had been performing her regular monthly audit in the
Medicine Progressive Care Unit (MPCU) but wasn’t satisfied with the
results. At the time, she was the unit’s only skin wounds resource nurse.
She felt she needed to take action, and that it
We wanted very much to do better.”
would be more than business as usual.
“I noted that our skin scores were
chronically ill. Because they are frequently unable
not as high as I want them to be and was
to get out of bed and walk independently, they are
especially focused on sacral ulcers and
more vulnerable to skin issues. Kate approached
incontinence-associated dermatitis,” says Kate.
her nurse manager, Megan O’Connor. What
Many patients in the MPCU are elderly and
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