Wound Care Training

Our Wound Care training course comprehensively covers the various types of wounds, how they occur and how to manage them, as well as leg ulcers and compression bandaging.

This course involves a practical session and delegates will receive a competence based framework document to work through under the supervision of a mentor in their place of work.

This Wound Care course has a recommendation rate of over 99% and is accredited by the Royal College of General Practitioners. On completion, delegates will be awarded a certificate of attendance and 6 CPD points.

All Annie Barr Associates clinical courses are led by trainers who are qualified healthcare professionals with a wealth of clinical and teaching experience. Non-clinical courses are delivered by suitably qualified and experienced professionals who are experts on the subject matter.

Please note: This is a full day course. Delegates are asked to arrive at the venue for registration at 9.30am. The training will take place from 10.00am - 4.00pm.

Aims & Objectives

• Develop knowledge and skills required for safe and effective wound management
• Describe the anatomy and physiology of the skin
• Describe the purpose of the skin
• Describe the causes of wounds and risk factors
• Understand complications
• Understand infection control
• Be able to assess and classify wounds and apply knowledge when dealing with wounds
• Understand your role in relation to wounds and wound management including guidelines and boundaries
• Describe the issues relating to the therapeutics of the relevant dressings and how they work
• Understand how to apply dressings safely including choice of dressing for the appropriate site and the need for observation of the patient post procedure
• Understand the need for audit and governance
• Recognise factors that delay healing
• Understand how to remove sutures and staples correctly

Course Content

• Role of the HCA
• Accountability: guidelines and requirements
• Legal issues
• Confidentiality
• Capacity and consent
• Documentation and record keeping
• Supervision and competence
• Anatomy and physiology of the skin and wound healing: inflammation, proliferation, epithelialisation and maturation
• Factors that promote and delay wound healing
• Classification of wounds
• Aseptic technique and infection control
• Dressings and how to apply them
• Dressing selection
• Bandaging
• Wound management
• Necrotic wounds
• Granulating wounds
• Leg ulcers
• Recognising signs of infection and deterioration
• Removal of sutures and skin closure
• Practical Session

• Healthcare Assistants

Delegates will be provided with a competence-based framework and materials to take back to their place of work, however will not be signed off as competent in the training session. We therefore recommend that delegates are in a place of work (or soon plan to be in a place of work) in which they will have access to a mentor that are themselves competent in this clinical skill to assess their competence.