The Effect Of Capacity Building Of Nurses' Staff On Reducing Hospital Acquired Pressure Injury (Haps) In King Salman Hospital

Abstract

Background: A Hospital-Acquired Pressure Injury (HAPI) is considered a nursing care quality indicator. HAPI prevention poses an essential challenge at King Salman Hospital, where the HAPI rate was 0.45% at the end of 2024, and the cost per HAPI case was 2500 SAR/day. The benchmark approved for King Salman Hospital is 0-3.9%.

Aim of the study: To decrease HAPIs below the current incidence rate, reaching 0-0.2% by the end of 2025.

Method: Quasi-experimental research design was utilized to conduct this study to reduce hospital-acquired pressure injury through using focused group training (n=217 nurses) for building the capacity of nurses’ staff to reduce HAPI, the use of the turning clock strategy & increase the number of supplies needed in all departments reporting an incidence of HAPI.

Result: The findings indicated that the HAPI rate at the end of December 2024 was 55 cases with an incidence rate of 0.45, and decreased by more than 80% from the beginning of January 2025 to the end of December 2025 to reach 6 cases with an incidence rate of 0.047.

Impact: Improved patients' quality of life, increased patient safety, decreased average length of stay, decreased cost of extended hospitalization, and finally increased patient satisfaction.