Nursing · Geriatrics

Norton Scale for Pressure Ulcer Risk calculator

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Physical condition

Mental condition

Activity

Mobility

Incontinence

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Source: Norton D, McLaren R, Exton-Smith AN. An Investigation of Geriatric Nursing Problems in Hospital. London: National Corporation for the Care of Old People; 1962 (scale as reproduced in Taber's Cyclopedic Medical Dictionary and the SCIRE Project). Five items scored 4 to 1: physical condition good/fair/poor/very bad; mental condition alert/apathetic/confused/stuporous; activity ambulant/walks with help/chairbound/bedfast; mobility full/slightly limited/very limited/immobile; incontinence none/occasional/usually urinary/urinary and faecal. Total 5–20; a score of 14 or less indicates risk of pressure sores; lower scores mean higher risk. (1962)

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Clinical inputs

Physical condition
Mental condition
Activity
Mobility
Incontinence

Primary source

Norton D, McLaren R, Exton-Smith AN. An Investigation of Geriatric Nursing Problems in Hospital. London: National Corporation for the Care of Old People; 1962 (scale as reproduced in Taber's Cyclopedic Medical Dictionary and the SCIRE Project). Five items scored 4 to 1: physical condition good/fair/poor/very bad; mental condition alert/apathetic/confused/stuporous; activity ambulant/walks with help/chairbound/bedfast; mobility full/slightly limited/very limited/immobile; incontinence none/occasional/usually urinary/urinary and faecal. Total 5–20; a score of 14 or less indicates risk of pressure sores; lower scores mean higher risk. (1962)

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