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