yes...turning Q2H, using the braden risk scores and interventions appropriately, then you can use those super expensive air-beds that relieve pressure on all surfaces- if it's affordable

No all bedsores are NOT preventable.... and Medicare is only refusing payment for COMPLICATIONS due to bed sores...

While bedsores are probably not preventable in all cases.. complications of them might be..

Yes nutrition, hydration and avoiding friction are very good strategies.. some disease states.. especially in the moribund patient may prevent these conditions from being met..

And why is this in the anonymous section?

SEVOFLURANE

If someone comes in for a cabg and they leave the hospital with a bedsore,even stage 1............medicare can and probably will deny payment for the surgery given that brought him/her here.  It doesnt matter that he/she has smoked for 50 yrs, was 60 pounds overweight and has been so for decades...............has been diabetic for at least 4 decades; yup..........payment to the facility that performed this surgery probably will be denied.   Yup, there will be complications due to bad choices throughout their live.  You have to turn them q 2 hrs religiously, document every pimple from head to toe.  Neglect of doing the braden scale, watching out for fiction and shearing will run up a pressure sore in a heartbeat.  The small country hospitals are suffering right now.  If you didnt chart it <as in turning the patient at the right time> you didnt do it.   

You're NO GOOD nruse if your patient contracted bed sores.

I agree with the above statement.  I worked as a CNA for YEARS, and I was a darn good one too.  Some of my patients got bed sores by no fault of my own.  I believe there are processes in place to cut down on the amount and severity of them, but no way to truly PREVENT them.

Zero tolerance sounds nice, but in reality is unrealistic.