Wound Management & Skin Integrity Course (Advanced)

Tissue viability is a growing speciality that primarily considers all aspects of skin and soft tissue wounds including acute surgical wounds, pressure ulcers and all forms of leg ulceration.” (Tissue Viability Society 2009).

This unique course addresses the learning needs of healthcare professionals caring for a patient who either have or are at risk of developing wound or skin break down. It offers an opportunity to develop the competencies required to conduct assessments, planning, delivery and evaluation of healthcare interventions for patients in wound management and tissue viability.

Course Objectives

At the end of the course, participants will :

• Evaluate the professional, legal, and ethical issues of current wound care practice

•  Apply the knowledge, skills and critical understanding of tissue viability required to improve the care of individuals with, or at risk from, tissue viability problems.

• Identify nutritional requirements in wound healing

• Provide the nurse’s role in the interdisciplinary wound management team, in providing holistic care for the patient requiring tissue viability management.

• Describe the purpose of each types of wound debridement and perform conservative sharp wound debridement (CSWD) safely.

• Describe and perform a wound assessment on palliative & fungating wounds, pain management, wound infection diagnostics, restoring wound bed bacterial balance and establish a treatment plan.

• Recognize wound care product categories and be able to select them appropriately to ensure appropriate interventions are prescribed in line with patient needs

• Differentiate the nursing management of fungating lesion, vascular, stoma and complex wounds

The course will also provide you with guidance on fungating wounds, nutrition in wound healing, various methods of wound debridement and Conservative Sharp Wound Debridement (CSWD) as a management strategy for chronic wounds in all healthcare settings, especially in the nursing homes, community, and home care settings.