Elijah Joseph Carroll

Title : Proactive nursing: The keystone to pressure injury prevention

Abstract:

Nurses have become disengaged and are less likely to report changes in conditions, suggest appropriate treatments, or communicate with physicians and management when they do not feel they are being heard, or that their words to not matter.  This disengagement leads to increased house acquired pressure injuries, increased wound complications, and decreased patient satisfaction.

Audience Take Away Notes:

• Attendees will be able to identify why nurses are burnt out and not willing to speak up with concerns or wound care recommendations and how to decrease burnout and an increase in reporting concerns and making wound care recommendations.
• Attendees will be able to list how to improve nursing and management relationships, increase staff education, and empower nurses to take a proactive approach in wound care.
• Attendees will be able to explain why an interdisciplinary approach to facility wound management and process improvements can decrease in house acquired pressure injuries.

Biography:

Elijah J. Carroll BSN-RN, CRRN, WCC - A highly accomplished and dedicated wound care professional with over 13 years of nursing experience. Elijah’s impact on the wound care field can be seen in decreased in house acquired pressure injury rates at hospitals he has both worked at or assisted in opening and maintaining. Elijah now provides legal nurse consultation services to law firms advocating for patients and hospitals and provides educational and clinical consultations services to medical facilities, while presenting at national and international conferences on wound care.