Wound Care
Three hours
Introduction / Refresher
Nurses and Senior Care Staff
To enable staff to provide safe and effective care for a wide variety of wound types.
Up to 15 students
- Defining a wound
- Different types of wound
- Wound assessment issues
- Wound cleansing issues
- Warm, moist wound healing
- Wound dressing types
- Frequency of dressing changes
- Infection, odour and skincare
- Infection control
- Multi-disciplinary working
- Caring for the non-healing wound
- Knowledge test
Lecture, group discussion, case studies
and practical exercises.
Students are assessed on the basis of
their performance of the exercises and
in the summative test at the end.
- Care Standards Act regulations
- Skills for Care Induction Standards
- National Vocational Qualifications
- Attendance forms
- Course notes / handouts
- Knowledge tests
- Training records
- Feedback forms
- Certificates of Achievement
Dependent on your training needs.
Call 020 3115 1039 for a quote!
Michael Hughes MSc BSc(Hons) RN DipN ENB 998 ENB 978 Cert HPM FRSH FIHPE
Healthcare Training 79 Lodge Lane, North Finchley, London N12 8JG Tel/Fax: 020 3115 1039