Who Should Attend?

This study day is aimed at Nurses new to Primary Care and HCA's who require an introduction into the assessment and management of wounds and/or who have never attended any formal training on leg ulcer management or are new into Practice.

 Learning Outcomes

 This training is presented as an introduction to the assessment and management of wounds for Nurses that are either new to wound care or who would like their current basic knowledge updated.  It explores the assessment process of a patient presenting with a wound and demonstrates how to effectively evaluate progress.  It seeks to update Nurses on current issues and recent changes in practice.  It explores cost effective use of current dressings.

The leg ulcer management part of the day will cover assessment, essential skin care, steroid therapy and maintaining healing.  Time will be set aside at the end of the session for questions and answers relating to leg ulcer management.   Learning outcomes include:

• Able to complete all aspects of a basic wound assessment
• Accurately evaluate and monitor wound progress
• Understand the basic wound dressing groups and their appropriate use
• Recognise signs and symptoms of venous and arterial leg ulceration
• Understand the benefits of essential skin care in leg ulcer management
• Able to discuss the best practice in leg ulcer treatment.