how to prevent pressure sores.
As a certified nursing assistant, you have a huge responsibility of taking care of the patients. You will be dealing with different kinds of patients with different types of diseases. In plenty of cases, you would be dealing with patients who are not able to move and require constant care. Patients who are not able to move tend to develop bedsores – also known as pressure sores. Therefore, it becomes your foremost duty as a CNA to ensure that patients do not develop bedsores, since they can be very painful and cause a lot of discomfort. Now, you need to understand how bedsores or pressure sores are caused. In the case of patients who cannot move, there tends to be constant pressure on certain body parts while lying down. Now these body parts are deprived of essential oxygen and because of this the muscle and tissue of that region start breaking down. So it becomes essential for nursing assistants like you to keep a strict vigil on the patients and look for any kind of indication that m
