PGW5202 Wound assessment

When you finish this unit, you should be able to:

1. 1

   Integrate physical, psychosocial and environmental components into comprehensive wound assessment.

2. 2

   Critically appraise frameworks as tools for systematic assessment of a wound.

3. 3

   Incorporate wound measurement, exudate assessment, wound bed tissue identification, wound tunnelling and undermining and pain assessment into systematic wound assessment.

4. 4

   Describe and develop a multidisciplinary team approach to management resulting from the assessment process.

5. 5

   Identify and utilise criteria used to monitor and evaluate wound healing progress.

6. 6

   Formulate a wound assessment chart to assess and communicate wound healing progress at a patient, local and organisational level.