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Tissue Viability - What OTs need to know and how they can help
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May 9, 2024 10:30 AM
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Part 1 - May 9, 2024 10:30 AM: Challenges of preventing pressure ulcers in the community
Duration: 1 hour
This 4-part webinar series explores the complexities of preventing and managing pressure ulcers in community settings, covering topics such as skin care, patient decision-making and the critical roles of nutrition, hydration and posture.
Learning Outcomes
- To understand why good skin care is essential
- To understand what leads to vulnerable skin and early warning signs
- Pressure and posture – the link between them
- Issues with cushions on top of chairs
- The big debate - To stay in bed or not to stay in bed?
- To understand the cascade of events that lead to pressure damage
- Root cause analysis process
- To understand the categories of pressure ulcers
- To recognise the key primary factors that can increase the risk of pressure ulcer development
- To understand the place and relevance of risk assessment tools and why they score as they do
- To understand why people may make decisions about their care that healthcare professionals find challenging
- What you can do when a person decides not to adhere to suggested care interventions
- To have an understanding of prevention of pressure ulcers using the aSSKINg bundle
- To gain more in depth understanding of how nutrition plays an important part in the viability of tissue
- To understand how nutrition helps with healing wounds and how to do this in practice
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