Exclusive: Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin takes team-based approach to reduce pressure ulcers

Despite common belief, pressure ulcers don’t only affect adults. Infants and children are also at risk. But an innovative, peer-to-peer education model at Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin has greatly reduced the chances that their vulnerable patients will suffer from these serious wounds. In an exclusive interview with FierceHealthcare, leaders of the hospital's Pressure Ulcer Prevention Team discuss the model and the importance of having nurses serve as skin champions.