Albany Wound Management Workshop 2023

Workshop Overview

This interactive 4-hour workshop has been designed to enhance your capacity to assess and treat complex wounds in the Primary Care setting. The workshop uses a sustainability framework devised to enhance clinical outcomes, whilst minimising the economic, social, and environmental impacts of care. As a participant, you will leave the workshop with an innovation strategy for your workplace designed to translate learning into sustainable evidence-based-wound care.

This workshop is endorsed by the Australian College of Nursing and attracts 4-CPD points.

Session 1: Wound Clinical Operations and Sustainability 0900 – 10.45

• Establishing your wound management framework:
• Governance, diagnostics, referrals, inventory management
• models of care, clinical protocols
• economic, psychosocial, and environmental impact minimisation
• Workplace sustainability and clinical operations assessment

Session 2: Wound Assessment and Treatment 1100 – 1300

• Wound hygiene
• Wound bed preparation and product selection
• Wound cleansing and debridement
• Inflammation, infection, and biofilm management
• Exudate management and surrounding skin
• Primary Health case study application
• Workshop Quiz