MPD0045 · Quality and safety in wound care

Overview

You will explore essential aspects of skin and wound care management, focusing on quality and safety to ensure optimal person-centred outcomes. You will learn the core principles of wound care and how to apply them in various aged care settings. You will also recognise and classify different wound types, understand frameworks for assessing quality and safety, and apply evidence-based wound management principles. In this unit you will learn how to emphasise person-centred care to improve healthcare outcomes and provide strategies to prevent wounds, particularly in at-risk populations, with practical preventive measures to enhance care.

Offerings

Assessment

The Handbook does not list a final examination among the assessment items. That is not a guarantee there is none.

Assessment details may change. Please refer to the assessment information in Moodle closer to the start of the teaching period.

Requisites

The Handbook lists no prerequisite, corequisite or prohibition for this unit.

Learning outcomes

1. Explain the concepts of quality and safety in the context of skin and wound care management.
2. Describe the fundamental principles of skin and wound care and how they can be applied to individuals in a range of aged care settings.
3. Recognise and classify wound types in older populations.
4. Outline relevant frameworks for assessing quality and safety in skin and wound care and discuss their role in improving care for those in aged care settings.
5. Describe basic evidence-based principles of wound management and explain their application in aged care settings.
6. Explain how person-centred wound care improves healthcare in the aged care sector.

Workload

8 hours of teacher directed study per week, 8 hours per week of self-directed study. Total per week = 16 hours

Student experience, not official rules. Nothing here changes what the Handbook says.