Course Description
Pressure injuries are a frequently occurring health problem throughout the world. They are painful, costly and an often-preventable complication for which many individuals are at risk.
The most effective approach to pressure injury prevention and management is:
- The timely screening and assessment to identify
- Risk factors and implementation of a plan of care to reduce the risk of pressure injury development
- Recognise the impact pressure injuries have on the individual
- Their family/carers and health care resources
- Develop pressure injury risk management care plan in partnership with patients and/or carers, implement
- Perform and evaluate prevention strategies for patients at risk and patients with pressure injury
