Photographic wound documentation P&P

[Beary-nice]

Beary has been da busy bee....:typing at my new job. I am in the process of revamping an entire skin and wound care program at a long term care facility amongst doing about 40,000 other things.

I am having difficulty in finding not so much the standard of practice but a really good cut and dried policy for photographic wound documentation.

To put a long story as short as possible, my boss thought it would be splendid if we purchased a digital camera and printer, which was done and begin doing photo documentation, mostly for anything that would classify as an ulcer, not really skin tears etc. We also have some nice forms that the photos can be affixed to. I being the "proceed with caution" one wants a really good policy and procedure in place for and before using said camera and how we are going to go about assuring nothing has been altered, is appropriately marked so as not to cause a HIPPA violation, maybe some competencies for the use of the camera and so on.

I know this is alot to ask, but if anyone can steer me in the right direction just even for some resources, that would be awesome.

Thanks! :heartbeat

[paroda]

:up:I'm in a similar position, looking for the same policy. The reason for us taking pictures is to monitor through a data base pt outcomes with evidence based best practice guidelines. If you find a policy regarding photos would appreciate it passed on to investigate its accuracy.

[XB9S, BSN, MSN, EdD, RN, APN]

We always use of media resource departments for documenting wounds.

I have had a little dig around for some policies that may help, here are a few links

Kent

Cambridge

Policy

[AnnemRN]

beary has been da busy bee....:typing at my new job. i am in the process of revamping an entire skin and wound care program at a long term care facility amongst doing about 40,000 other things.

i am having difficulty in finding not so much the standard of practice but a really good cut and dried policy for photographic wound documentation.

to put a long story as short as possible, my boss thought it would be splendid if we purchased a digital camera and printer, which was done and begin doing photo documentation, mostly for anything that would classify as an ulcer, not really skin tears etc. we also have some nice forms that the photos can be affixed to. i being the "proceed with caution" one wants a really good policy and procedure in place for and before using said camera and how we are going to go about assuring nothing has been altered, is appropriately marked so as not to cause a hippa violation, maybe some competencies for the use of the camera and so on.

i know this is alot to ask, but if anyone can steer me in the right direction just even for some resources, that would be awesome.

thanks! :heartbeat

i would try to stay away from keeping your images paper based. it can become very time consuming with lots of chances of the documentation not being done at all. where i work we use software that keeps track of the photos. the images are downloaded and kept in folders and can be emailed to md's if needed.

[Beary-nice]

i would try to stay away from keeping your images paper based. it can become very time consuming with lots of chances of the documentation not being done at all. where i work we use software that keeps track of the photos. the images are downloaded and kept in folders and can be emailed to md's if needed.

thanks for the info. i would like to see something like this for us down the pike. we are very, very small potatoes and everything is on paper. i came from a place that was highly computerized, so big change there back to old style for me.

[Beary-nice]

We always use of media resource departments for documenting wounds.

I have had a little dig around for some policies that may help, here are a few links

Kent

Cambridge

Policy

Thanks will have to check these out!