25
minutes spent per four wounds
Senior Care Organization Improves Quality of Wound Care with Skin and Wound
Oakridge Gardens is a family of care facilities offering short-term rehabilitation therapy, assisted living, and long-term skilled nursing and memory care. For the past 45 years, they have been committed to providing the highest level of personalized care.
Learn how PointClickCare helped Oakridge Gardens improve wound care accuracy and efficiency.
Learn how PointClickCare helped Oakridge Gardens improve wound care accuracy and efficiency.
100%
compliance with 7-Day Wound Assessment Window
Skin and Wound is a game-changer for us. Our care teams can complete their wound rounding and treatment much faster. The visual documentation helps patients and their families understand the severity and progress of wounds, making them more compliant with treatment plans. Up-to-date documentation, along with progress wound images, improves our ability to maintain compliance and ensures accurate records. The time savings and efficiency are incredible.
Toddy Setnik, MSN, RN
Director of Nursing, Oakridge Gardens
The Challenge
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Manual wound measurement is time-consuming and has the potential to introduce inconsistencies.
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Difficulty in creating accurate and consistent progress reports results in challenges creating quality documentation.
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The wound survey process is time-intensive and stressful for residents and staff alike, especially for chronic wounds.
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Ensuring resident adherence to wound care protocols is difficult.
The Solution
Oakridge Gardens chose PointClickCare’s Skin and Wound to empower their bedside nurses with fast, accurate wound documentation.
Oakridge Gardens chose PointClickCare’s Skin and Wound to empower their bedside nurses with fast, accurate wound documentation.
- Skin and Wound is an advanced mobile app designed for wound evaluation, documentation, and status communication across the care team.
- Reduces wound measurement variability with consistent, data-driven care decisions, generating accurate wound assessments and fostering improved resident outcomes and confidence in care quality.
- Enhanced collaboration helps better identify at-risk residents, ensuring timely interventions and leading to improved care outcomes.
- By strengthening compliance and accountability with thorough documentation and evidence that reflects a commitment to high quality care, care organizations can help minimize litigation risk.
The Outcome
25
minutes spent per four wounds
100%
compliance with 7-Day Wound Assessment Window
Oakridge Gardens discovered multiple benefits of implementing Skin and Wound, including significant time savings across the wound assessment process by eliminating manual wound measurement and documentation. Additionally, the improved ability to capture images of the wounds and consistent documentation helped Oakridge maintain 100% compliance with required 7-day wound assessments, providing surveyors with clear, easy-to-access evidence of proper monitoring and treatment.
Toddy Setnik, MSN, RN, Director of Nursing for Oakridge Gardens, also explains that this visibility extends not just to staff and surveyors, but also to residents and their families. “It also helps with some [residents’ treatment adherence] when they can see the wound, where before they couldn’t even bend down that far to look,” she notes. Skin and Wound’s clear visual record of wound progression also allows staff to illustrate the wound’s condition and treatment trajectory to families who may not always be present when the wound is assessed.
“A picture is worth 1,000 words,” says Toddy. “[You can] see it from week to week and it’s easy even if someone different is taking the picture.”
Toddy Setnik
