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Wound Care for Health Care Professionals
Wound Care for Healthcare Professionals is intended for PSWs, RPNs, and RNs who deal with wound care in their hospital or clinic. The course is designed for those interested in learning about how to prevent, treat, dress, and manage various types of wounds. This course is for students desiring to be knowledgeable, skilled, and prepared to assist someone with a wound. Students learn to identify wound etiology and the types of dressings and treatments which are appropriate for both healing and non-healing wounds.
Course Outline
- Wound healing process
- Wound bed preparation
- Classification of wounds
- Identifying and managing wounds
- Dressing materials
- Negative pressure wound therapy
- Compression therapy
- Classification of wounds
- Lower Leg Assessment and ABPI with Hand Held Doppler
- Neuropathy assessment
- Workshop includes some hands-on foundation practice of wound care
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