... her left heal, approximately 2cm round. I was asked to assess the patient's pressure ulcer and determine which stage it was in. I found that deciding this was difficult as I had limited knowledge of pressure ulcers and the information surrounding the treatments involved. However, my mentor was very reassuring and referred me to a poster that showed the different stages of pressure ulcer development. The patient had partial thickness skin damage involving the epidermis and the dermis. This is classed as a stage two pressure ulcer, based on a grading system devised by Reid and Morison (1994), which was devised specifically for the use on pressure ulcers. The pressure ulcer was inflamed at the edges and appeared to be red and slightly swollen. The surrounding tissue felt warm to touch and the patient mentioned that it was causing her discomfort from the pain. Dowsett (2002) suggests that these symptoms ...

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