Pressure Care Awareness (BTEC Advanced Award)
Course Objective
To understand pressure ulcers: prevention and treatment.
Learning Outcomes
To understand pressure ulcer development, assessing risk and the principles of prevention.
To understand the categories and treatment of pressure ulcers and the application of pressure care equipment systems.
Who will benefit most?
Staff within commercial companies who manufacture or distribute pressure care products, involved in advising, assessing or selling products in this field. This includes clinical and non-clinical sales advisors, customer services personnel, receptionists, technicians and senior management (new to the industry). The course would be equally helpful to staff with a responsibility for caring for immobile patients be they in residential care homes or hospital settings.
The programme for the day includes:
- The costs and litigation implications of pressure ulcers
- Background information: official bodies and national policies
- Terminology and definition of pressure ulcers
- Anatomy of the skin
- The causes of pressure ulcers
- Risk assessment and classification tools
- Prevention and treatment
- The importance of posture and seating in the prevention of pressure ulcers
- The principles of equipment choice
- Complex situations
- The impact of pressure ulcers and the effects on a person's quality of life
Date:
Banbury: Tuesday 11th September 2012
Course fee:
BHTA Member £175 (+ VAT)
Non-Member £225 (+ VAT)