Wound Care Awareness and Pressure Area Care
for Carers and Healthcare Support Workers
📅 Duration: 3 hours (half-day)
👩⚕️ Audience: Carers, HCAs, support workers, nursing associates, healthcare assistants and care staff.
🏥 Format: Available live online or face-to-face at your organisation
👥 Group Size: Up to 10 delegates
Wound Care Training for Healthcare Staff
Course Details:
Healthy skin plays an important role in preventing infection, protecting the body and supporting overall wellbeing. This course gives learners a practical understanding of wound care awareness, pressure area care, skin integrity and the early signs of deterioration. It also covers common wound types, pressure ulcer prevention, skin tears, safe escalation and documentation.
Poor wound management and delayed recognition of pressure damage can lead to avoidable pain, infection and hospital admission. This training helps learners feel more confident recognising concerns early, supporting safer care and knowing when to escalate concerns appropriately.
Wound care costs the NHS an estimated £8.3 billion every year, with non-healing wounds accounting for the largest share of this cost.
Learning Outcomes – Tissue Viability Awareness Training
By the end of this CPD-accredited course, participants will be able to:
- Explain the structure and function of the skin and its role in wound healing and pressure damage.
- Identify common wound types and describe the stages of wound healing.
- Recognise early signs of skin damage, including pressure damage and skin tears, across different skin tones.
- Identify individuals at increased risk of skin tears and pressure ulcers and describe common causes.
- Demonstrate safe principles for wound assessment, cleaning, and dressing within scope of practice.
- Explain the importance of pressure area care, including repositioning, skin inspection, and pressure-relieving equipment.
- Describe how nutrition, hydration, mobility, and continence impact skin integrity.
- Accurately document wound care and escalate concerns in line with local policy
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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.
“Really useful and easy to follow. It helped me feel more confident recognising pressure damage and supporting wound care safely in practice.”
Senior HCSW
Nursing Home Setting
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