Optimal Patient Turning for Reducing Hospital Acquired Pressure Ulcers

Patients within this arm will receive optimal turning practices. Nurses caring for these patients will receive real-time quantitative measures of patient turning procedures from the User Dashboard and provide a visual advisory to the nurse for the time to next turn.

Patients within this arm will receive standard preventative care practices - that is, nurses will provide standard care as necessary, without the aid of visual advisories from a patient sensor.

A small sensor with adhesive backing is applied to the upper chest (midline) of the patient. Sensor tracks and records body movement and position, and displays this on a User Dashboard located on a computer at the bedside.