{"id":680,"date":"2013-06-29T10:07:40","date_gmt":"2013-06-29T10:07:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thewoundcentre.com\/a\/?p=680"},"modified":"2013-06-29T10:07:40","modified_gmt":"2013-06-29T10:07:40","slug":"clinical-judgement-must-override-any-score-you-get-when-using-a-numerical-pressure-ulcer-risk-assessment-tool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thewoundcentre.com\/a\/680\/clinical-judgement-must-override-any-score-you-get-when-using-a-numerical-pressure-ulcer-risk-assessment-tool\/","title":{"rendered":"Clinical judgement must override any score you get when using a numerical pressure ulcer risk assessment tool."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So how do you assess a patient using clinical judgement?<\/p>\n<p>Ask the patient if they can:<\/p>\n<p>1. lift their arms up \/ off the bed<\/p>\n<p>2. lift their legs up \/ off the bed<\/p>\n<p>3. roll from side to side<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13px;\">If the patient cannot perform these movements they are at risk of pressure injury \/ ulcer.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13px;\">Simple&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>You can use this very quick and very simple 15 second assessment when you don&#8217;t have time to fill in a complicated, time-consuming, assessment tool that contains parameters that are irrelevant to pressure injury development e.g. incontinence and poor nutrition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So how do you assess a patient using clinical judgement? Ask the patient if they can: 1. lift their arms up \/ off the bed 2. lift their legs up \/ off the bed 3. roll from side to side &nbsp; If the patient cannot perform these movements they are at risk of pressure injury [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wound-management-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewoundcentre.com\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewoundcentre.com\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewoundcentre.com\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewoundcentre.com\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewoundcentre.com\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=680"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/thewoundcentre.com\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":686,"href":"http:\/\/thewoundcentre.com\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680\/revisions\/686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewoundcentre.com\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewoundcentre.com\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewoundcentre.com\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}