Pressure Injury Prevention

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This course equips healthcare professionals with essential knowledge and skills to understand pressure injuries, including their causes, risk factors, prevention strategies, repositioning techniques, support surfaces, linen selection, and staging principles.

5 Modules1 hour
$169$0
Pressure Injury Prevention

Learning Outcomes

What you'll learn

  • Understand the causes, risk factors, and development of pressure injuries.
  • Identify individuals at risk and apply effective prevention strategies, including repositioning, skin care, and heel offloading.
  • Demonstrate safe turning techniques and appropriate pressure-relieving interventions.
  • Understand pressure injury staging, assessment, documentation, and reporting requirements.
  • Select suitable support surfaces and linen to support skin health and reduce injury risk.
  • Promote person-centred care practices to prevent pressure injuries and maintain comfort and dignity.

Modules

Module 1

Pressure Injury Prevention and Management in LTC

Module 2

Pressure Injury Staging Guidelines

Module 3

Selecting Support Surfaces and Linen

Module 4

Pressure Injury - Prevention

Module 5

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Frequently Asked Questions

The Pressure Injury Prevention course covers pressure injury causes, risk factors, prevention strategies, repositioning techniques, pressure injury staging, support surfaces, linen selection, and skin assessment.

Yes, you will receive a certification upon successful completion of the Pressure Injury Prevention course.

To register, log in or sign in to your Care Learning account using your email and password. New users can create an account at care-learning.com.

This course is suitable for healthcare professionals, caregivers, and support workers involved in preventing, assessing, and managing pressure injuries in clinical or long-term care settings.