Current Perspectives on Pressure Injuries in Persons with Dark Skin Tones from the National Pressure Injury Advisory...

Joyce Black¹, Jill Cox, Virginia Capasso+7

• ¹Joyce Black, PhD, RN, FAAN, is President, National Pressure Injury Advisory Panel, and Florence Niedfelt Professor of Nursing, College of Nursing, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, USA. Jill Cox, PhD, RN, APN-C, CWOCN, FAAN, is Member, Board of Directors, National Pressure Injury Advisory Panel; Clinical Professor, Rutgers University School of Nursing, New Jersey; and Wound/Ostomy/Continence Advanced Practice Nurse, Englewood Health, New Jersey. Virginia Capasso, PhD, CNP, CNS, CWS, FAAN, is Member, Board of Directors, National Pressure Injury Advisory Panel; Instructor in Surgery, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts; and Advanced Practice Nurse and Nurse Scientist, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston. Donna Z. Bliss, PhD, RN, FAAN, is School of Nursing Foundation Professor of Nursing Research, and Chair, Adult and Gerontological Health Cooperative, University of Minnesota School of Nursing, Minneapolis. Barbara Delmore, PhD, RN, CWCN, MAPWCA, IIWCC, FAAN, is Alumna, Board of Directors, National Pressure Injury Advisory Panel, and Senior Nurse Scientist and Clinical Assistant Professor, NYU Langone Health, New York. Vignesh Iyer, MS, is Director, Medical Affairs, Bruin Biometrics, Los Angeles, California. Jacqueline Massaro, MSN, RN, CWOCN, is Wound/Ostomy/Continence Nurse, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts. Cassendra Munro, PhD, RN, CNOR, is Nurse Scientist, Office of Research Patient Care Services, Stanford Health Care, Palo Alto, California. Joyce Pittman, PhD, RN, ANP-BC, FNP-BC, CWOCN, FAAN, is Alumna, Board of Directors, National Pressure Injury Advisory Panel, and Associate Professor, College of Nursing, University of South Alabama, Mobile. Elizabeth A. Ayello, PhD, RN, CWON, MAPWCA, FAAN, is Alumna, Board of Directors, and Past President, National Pressure Injury Advisory Panel, and President, Ayello, Harris & Associates, Inc, New York.