Stop the pressure - introducing the PURPOSE T Risk Assessment Tool
PURPOSE T offers an evidence based PU risk assessment tool that has been designed following NIHR funded research. This webinar examines the development and utilisation of PURPOSE T for risk assessment and discusses how to identify factors contributing to risk and implement prevention strategies effectively.
Learning Outcomes
- To understand how PURPOSE T was developed
- To understand how to use PURPOSE T to risk assess
- To understand how to identify factors that are contributing towards the risk in order to implement prevention strategies
Meet our Experts
Heidi has been a Tissue Viability Nurse since 2002. Her interest and passion in the prevention and management of pressure ulcers began, however, in 1987 on registering as a nurse. She has worked in both acute and community care.
Sarah has always had a keen interest in Tissue Viability since becoming a registered nurse in 2002. Her experience varies from within a community setting, where she completed her Tissue Viability based degree in 2007. She then worked within the private sector to gain additional advanced wound care skills whilst working with a medical devices company specialised in wound healing. In 2010, Sarah became a Tissue Viability Nurse and shaped a specialised service within the acute sector for 7 years before returning to the community setting as a TVN.
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