Assessment and Treatment of Wounds
for Registered Practitioners
📅 Duration: 3 hours (half-day)
🎓 Accreditation: ✅ CPD Accredited
👩⚕️ Audience: Registered Nurses, Nursing Associates, Community Nurses, Care Home Nurses, Tissue Viability Link Staff, Primary Care Clinicians and other Registered Healthcare Professionals involved in wound management.
🏥 Format: Available live online or face-to-face at your organisation
👥 Group Size: Up to 10 delegates
Wound Assessment Training for Nurses
Course Details:
Effective wound assessment and wound treatment are essential skills across healthcare and care settings. Poor wound management can delay healing, increase infection risk and negatively impact a person’s comfort, mobility and quality of life. This practical course explores wound assessment, wound healing, dressing selection, pressure damage and skin tear management using evidence-based approaches to care.
Learners will develop a robust approach to wound care, including recognising different wound types, assessing healing progress and selecting appropriate wound dressings in line with best practice guidance.
An estimated 3.8 million people in the UK were living with a wound requiring NHS management, highlighting the growing demand for skilled, evidence-based wound care across healthcare and care settings.
Learning Outcomes – Assessment and Treatment of Wounds
By the end of this CPD-accredited course, participants will be able to:
- Describe the structure and function of healthy skin.
- Define wounds and recognise their impact on patients and families.
- Carry out effective wound assessment and documentation.
- Explain the stages of wound healing and factors that delay progress.
- Identify and manage common wound types, including skin tears.
- Select appropriate wound dressings to support healing.
- Apply safe and evidence-based wound management strategies in practice.
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Why Choose Hickby?
👩⚕️ Nurse-led expertise
Delivered by experienced Clinical Nurse Educators with real-world practice.
🎓 CPD accredited
Assurance that training meets national professional standards.
📖 Evidence-based
Aligned with NICE, RCN, and NMC guidance for safe, effective care.
“Excellent session. It was very informative and practical, and I now feel more confident assessing and managing different types of wounds.”
Practice Nurse
Primary Care Setting
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