Event Details
This online half-day update on tissue viability is suitable for Nurses, who are already competent in assessing and dressing wounds or HCAs, Paramedics, Clinical Pharmacists who are applying dressings.
Course Content
- What is effective wound management?
- Adequate wound assessment, documentation, holistic factors
- Wound healing stages
- Wound types
- Dressings; what dressing to apply to what wound
- Incorporating the principles of T.I.M.E.S in wound care
- Overview of the problems which affect wound healing
- Update on skincare and cleansing
- Moisture and pressure damage