What’s on the Pressure Injuries poster
A 6-row table: Category · What is seen.
Categories describe depth of tissue loss. Prevention is what actually changes outcomes.
- 1 — Intact skin, non-blanching redness
- 2 — Partial thickness loss, shallow open area
- 3 — Full thickness, fat visible, no bone or tendon
- 4 — Full thickness, bone, tendon or muscle exposed
- Unstageable — Base obscured by slough or eschar
- Deep tissue injury — Persistent non-blanching deep discoloration
Educational reference. SSKIN: Surface · Skin inspection · Keep moving · Incontinence care · Nutrition. Local staging tools and schedules govern.
Questions about the Pressure Injuries poster
- What’s on the Pressure Injuries poster?
- A 6-row table: Category · What is seen. Categories describe depth of tissue loss. Prevention is what actually changes outcomes. 1 — Intact skin, non-blanching redness; 2 — Partial thickness loss, shallow open area; 3 — Full thickness, fat visible, no bone or tendon; 4 — Full thickness, bone, tendon or muscle exposed; Unstageable — Base obscured by slough or eschar; Deep tissue injury — Persistent non-blanching deep discoloration. Educational reference. SSKIN: Surface · Skin inspection · Keep moving · Incontinence care · Nutrition. Local staging tools and schedules govern.
- Who is the Pressure Injuries poster for?
- Pressure Injuries belongs to the Nursing section rather than to a school year, because life science is not something one grade owns. Anyone learning fundamentals can pin it up — a beginner, a student mid-course, or someone revising years later.
- When should you use the Pressure Injuries poster?
- Most pressure damage is predictable, and prediction is the whole point of the risk score. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so Pressure Injuries belongs on the wall where that life science work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.
- What other posters go with Pressure Injuries?
- The Chain of Infection, Writing a Care Plan and Nursing Records sit alongside Pressure Injuries in the Nursing section. Printed together they make a wall rather than a single sheet, which is how a reference set actually gets used.The Chain of InfectionWriting a Care PlanNursing Records
- Is the Pressure Injuries poster free to download and print?
- Yes. Pressure Injuries downloads as a free PDF with no account, no email and no watermark, like everything else in the Nursing section. Print as many copies as you like for a home, a classroom, a library or a tutoring group; reselling the file is the only thing the licence rules out.Read the licence
- What size does the Pressure Injuries poster print at?
- Pressure Injuries is a vector PDF laid out for US Letter, and prints on A4 with Fit to page — the same file, no separate download. Because every mark on it is drawn rather than photographed, it stays sharp enlarged to A3, A2 or A1 at a copy shop. Colour carries emphasis only, so a greyscale print of Pressure Injuries loses nothing.Printing guide
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