Pressure Sore Awareness

Description

Understanding what pressure sores are along with how they can be life threatening if missed or left untreated plays a crucial part of your role in health and social care, in this course you will work your way through a number of text, image, video and interactive content. You can see below full coverage of the course contents.

Lessons & Topics Include

Pressure Sores

• What is a pressure sore and how to recognise one
• The Skin
• Causes of a pressure sore

Prevention of pressure sores

• Methods used for prevention
• Equipment and documentation

Treatment of pressure sores

• Treatment plans
• Legislation

Duration: We recommend 90 minutes plus to effectively retain the information, you can also stop and continue the course at any point after purchasing.

This course is targeted at any individual within Health and Social Care