COMPLEX WOUND CARE SUPPORT

What is
Complex Wound Care Support?

This involves preventing and managing wounds or pressure injuries, often for participants with reduced mobility or chronic health conditions.

Skills

Knowledge

  • Prepare and maintain sterile environments

  • Apply dressings and monitor wound healing

  • Identify signs of infection or skin breakdown

  • Support use of pressure-relief equipment (e.g. lymphoedema devices)

  • Record and report wound status

  • Skin integrity and wound healing stages

  • Pressure injury risk factors and prevention

  • Use of wound care products and dressings

  • Signs of infection, deterioration, or allergic reaction

  • Hygiene practices specific to wound care

Complex Bowel Care
Enternal Feeding Support
Dysphagia Support
Ventilator Support
Tracheostomy Support
Urinary Catheter Support
Subcutaneous Injections

DAILY PERSONAL ACTIVITIES ( HIGH INTENSITY)