Ulcer

There are two groups of people those who are affected from pressure ulcer. They are those who have spinal cord injuries and the elderly people. The pressure ulcer can be prevented mainly by creating awareness by providing education to the students, high standard of awareness, and specific interventions. The prevention of pressure ulcer may be transient or even unstable over times. The prevention of pressure ulcer involves facilitating of nurses those who are accessing the risk of development of the ulcer. The main prevention method is that creating awareness to the patients in the form of java scripts. Pressure ulcers have large impacts on nursing. The pressure ulcers are one of the dangerous problems undergone by the nursing home residents of all sexes, race and age. At least one among the ten nursing home residents is being attacked by the pressure ulcer. According to the survey taken, the most common one is the stage 2 pressure ulcers. The guidelines are given for dressing to a pressure ulcer. The wound should be cleaned often. The dressing should be given regularly. The dressing process includes proper cleaning of wounds, application of zinc oxide and Vaseline around the wound edges, drying the surrounding skin.