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Skin ulcers, pressure sores and wound care (Nurse)

Skin ulcers, pressure sores and wound care (Nurse)

Enhance your dermatology skills with our comprehensive course on skin ulcers, pressure sores, and wound care. Begin with a guide to identifying and treating various pressure ulcers, understanding their definitions, symptoms, and stages. Delve into eight clinical cases to learn about wound identification, healing stages, and management, including risk factors like diabetes. Explore considerations for dressings, bandages, and equipment. Understand prevention strategies for high-risk patients and non-healing ulcers. The final section covers wound care techniques such as debridement, cleansing, dressings, and topical agents. This evidence-based, regularly updated course features best practice recommendations, ideal for healthcare professionals.

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  • FLEXIBLE TIMING

  • 100% ONLINE

  • accredited Course

  • Expert instructor

Course Content:

This general dermatology course focuses on skin ulcers, pressure sores and wound care. The course introduces a guide to identifying skin ulcers, pressure sores and wound care including treatment for a range of pressure ulcers. The definition, symptoms and stages of pressure injuries are outlined including the wound healing process. The second section involves eight clinical cases and looks at how to identify the wounds, the wound healing stages and how to clinically manage each of these cases including screening for risk factors and underlying causes such as diabetes.

Considerations include choice of dressings, bandages, equipment and the healing process. Non-healing ulcers are also discussed. Prevention strategies for patients at high risk of developing pressure ulcers are outlined. The final section
focusses on wound care including debridement, cleansing, dressings and topical agents. Best practice recommendations are featured.

This course is evidence-based, demonstrates best practice and is regularly updated.

Plan treatment for a range of pressure ulcers.

All nurses.

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CPD Hours:

  • 6.0 hours CPD Activity
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Accreditations:

Nurse endorsements pending.

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Study Mode:

100% online

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Study duration:

6.0 hrs self-paced

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ABOUT THE PRESENTER

Prof. Daniel Stulberg

This course is presented by Dr Daniel Stulberg: MD FAAFP. He is a Professor and the Vice Chair of Education in the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the University of New Mexico, USA. After completing the Inteflex
program and residency at the University of Michigan in 1990, Dr Stulberg worked for eight years in rural Arizona before moving into full time teaching. Daniel has published multiple articles and presents at national conferences regarding skin care and treatment. He has a dual appointment in family medicine and dermatology with an emphasis on skin care and procedural family medicine.

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  • "This is the pathway to improve your confidence and evolve into the GP you aspire to be"

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    Trainee

  • "HealthCert courses have become the standard by which you gauge all others."

    - Dr K. Abolarinwa

    MBBS

  • "This is the pathway to improve your confidence and evolve into the GP you aspire to be"

    -Dr A. Tucker

    Trainee