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Nurses should  nutritional support and routine repositioning more consistently to reduce hospital-acquired pressure injuries, an American Journal of Nursing study found. Lead author and AONL member Nora Warshawsky, PhD, RN, and colleagues analyzed data submitted to the 2022 National Database of Nursing Quality Indicators from 1,379 acute care facilities to analyze the pressure injury prevalence and nurses using preventive interventions in more than 355,000 patients. The hospital-acquired pressure injury rate was 3.8%, representing 13,500 patients. While nurses performed pressure redistribution and moisture management at rates ranging from 92% to 95%, they performed nutritional support and routine repositioning less frequently, ranging from 78.6% to 90.4%.