Course Title: Apply principles of wound management in the clinical environment

Part B: Course Detail

Teaching Period: Term1 2021

Course Code: NURS5381C

Course Title: Apply principles of wound management in the clinical environment

School: 174T School of VE Engineering, Health & Science

Campus: City Campus

Program: C5365 - Diploma of Nursing

Course Contact: Rosemarie Russell

Course Contact Phone: +61 3 9925 7478

Course Contact Email: rosemarie.russell@rmit.edu.au


Name and Contact Details of All Other Relevant Staff

Adaline Fernando

adaline.fernando@rmit.edu.au 

Nominal Hours: 45

Regardless of the mode of delivery, represent a guide to the relative teaching time and student effort required to successfully achieve a particular competency/module. This may include not only scheduled classes or workplace visits but also the amount of effort required to undertake, evaluate and complete all assessment requirements, including any non-classroom activities.

Pre-requisites and Co-requisites

There are no pre-requisites for this unit of competency.

Course Description

This course describes the skills and knowledge required to apply contemporary wound management principles to the care of various types of wounds. It involves working with the interdisciplinary health care team to contribute to assessment, treatment and ongoing management of a person’s wounds.

 

This course applies to enrolled nursing work carried out in consultation and collaboration with registered nurses, and under supervisory arrangements aligned to the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia regulatory authority legislative requirements.

 

This course includes a Work Integrated Learning experience in which your knowledge and skills will be applied and assessed in a real or simulated workplace context and where feedback from industry and/or community is integral to your experience.


This course includes clinical placement.


National Codes, Titles, Elements and Performance Criteria

National Element Code & Title:

HLTENN006 Apply principles of wound management in the clinical environment

Element:

1. Apply protocols for wound assessment.

Performance Criteria:

1.1 Use appropriate medical terminology when assessing, reporting and recording data on wounds.

1.2 Use strategies to minimise cross-infection during assessment and implementation of wound management strategies.

1.3 Observe orders and instructions relating to non-disturbance of dressings.

Element:

2. Assess impact of wound on a person, family or carer.

Performance Criteria:

2.1 Assist in performing holistic assessment of the person with a wound.

2.2 Apply knowledge of the physiological and biochemical processes associated with normal wound healing when assessing the person’s wound.

2.3 Consider factors that impact on wound healing, including psychosocial impact of a wound on the person’s daily living activities.

2.4 Consider common problems and complications of wounds when assessing the person’s wound.

2.5 Discuss modes of transmission of infection and infection development with the person, family or carer.

Element:

3. Contribute to planning care for a person with a wound.

Performance Criteria:

3.1 Consider primary health care principles and holistic approaches when planning care for the person with a wound.

3.2 Access wound care experts to assist in decision-making for wound care management.

3.3 Maintain current knowledge and use an evidence-based and problem-solving approach in contributing to analysis and planning of appropriate wound care management strategies.

3.4 Contribute to an individual wound management plan for the person in consultation and collaboration with the person, registered nurse and the interdisciplinary health care team.

3.5 Discuss preventative wound care strategies with the person, family or carer.

3.6 Identify the person’s comfort needs such as pain relief in consultation with registered nurse before undertaking wound care.

Element:

4. Undertake clinical nursing care in implementing wound care strategies.

Performance Criteria:

4.1 Use contemporary assessment tools accurately.

4.2 Implement wound care strategies, taking into account legislation and organisation policy and procedures.

4.3 In consultation and collaboration with the interdisciplinary health care team, identify wound management products and techniques appropriate to the identified phase of wound healing, and collect all resources required for the procedure.

4.4 Collect specimens required for microbiology and cytology according to organisation policy and procedures.

4.5 Dispose of all articles including hazardous waste appropriately according to organisation policy and procedures.

4.6 Make the person comfortable, and complete required documentation.

Element:

5. Apply contemporary wound management strategies to complex or challenging wounds.

Performance Criteria:

5.1 Apply knowledge of wound complexity and the pathological processes of wound healing for complex or challenging wounds

5.2 Identify common problems and complications of complex and challenging wounds.

5.3 Follow aseptic technique for a clean surgical wound and use infection prevention techniques appropriate to the type of wound.

5.4 Remove sutures, clips and drains from a person and replace wound drainage bag as directed by a registered nurse.

5.5 Implement appropriate contemporary wound management strategies to manage the person’s complex or challenging wounds.

5.6 Participate with the interdisciplinary health care team in making an assessment of the person with a complex or challenging wound within an holistic framework.

5.7 Create and review individualised plans of care for the person with a complex or challenging wound.

Element:

6. Assist in evaluating outcomes of nursing actions.

Performance Criteria:

6.1 Ensure involvement of the person in the evaluation process.

6.2 Monitor the person’s response to wound management strategies, and their progress towards planned wound management goals.

6.3 Evaluate, document and communicate progress of wound healing and wound care strategy outcomes to the appropriate members of the interdisciplinary health care team using contemporary terminology.

6.4 Assist in assessing effectiveness of the person’s wound management strategies and products used.

6.5 Modify wound management strategies, procedures and goals for the individual person.

6.6 Work within a cost effective framework.

6.7 Identify and plan health education and promotion strategies for the person in consultation and collaboration with the registered nurse.


Learning Outcomes



Details of Learning Activities

This unit describes the skills and knowledge required to apply contemporary wound management principles to the care of various types of wounds. It involves working with the interdisciplinary health care team to contribute to assessment, treatment and ongoing management of a person’s wounds.


Teaching Schedule

Semester #1  2021WeekLessonTopicAssessment / Learning activities
Week 9 Lesson 1

L1 - Integumentary system anatomy and physiology of wound healing

  • Anatomy and physiology of the skin
  • What is a wound?
  • 4 phases of wound healing
  • Types of Wound Healing
  • Factors that affect wound healing
Mandatory Activity - Hand Hygiene Certificate 
Week 9 Lesson 2

L2 - Wound Assessment

  • Wound Assessment
  • Skin Assessment
  • Wound Assessment Tool HEIDI
  • Wound documentation
 
Week 10 Lesson 3

L3 - Types of wounds Acute and Chronic

  • Acute wounds
  • Types of wounds
  • Chronic wounds
  • Palliative wounds
  • Skin Grafting 
 
Week 11 Lesson 4

L4 - Implement wound care strategies

  • Wound dressings - ANTT
  • AWMA Standard 4
  • Standard ANTT
  • Waste management
  • Wound care and dressings
Assessment Task 1 - Case Study 
Week 12 Lab 1    
Week 13 Lab 2   Assessment Task 2 - Knowledge assessment
Week 14 17th May  Wound Assessment Assessment Task 3 - Practical 
  19th May  Wound Assessment Resit   
CLINICAL PLACEMENT    

Assessment Task 4 - Clinical Placement


 


Learning Resources

Prescribed Texts


References


Other Resources


Overview of Assessment

This assessment will incorporate a variety of methods including written, oral, practical tasks and activities.

 

You will be asked to personally demonstrate to your teacher/assessor the practical skills gained during this course to the relevant industry standards. Assessment activities will occur throughout this course and feedback will be provided at regular intervals




Assessment Tasks

Assessment Task 1 - Case Study 

This assessment is a case study based on an elderly lady called Amanda. You have 15 short answer questions based on this case scenario. 

Assessment Task 2 - Knowledge Assessment

There are 35 short questions in this assessment task where knowledge evidence for this unit.

Assessment Task 3 - Practical Assessment

You are required to undertake a Practical Lab Assessment demonstrating competence in wound care, documentation and ability to linking theory to practice. You will have 30 minutes to demonstrate the ANTT to perform a sterile wound dressing

Assessment Task 4 - Clinical Placement 

In your clinical placement you will have the opportunity to apply your knowledge of implementing and monitoring care for a person with wounds within an Australian healthcare environment/clinical setting.

The expectation is that you will perform wound care management, including wound assessment, health education and evaluation of the person’s wound care in the workplace on 3 wounds, of which at least 1 must involve a simple wound dressing and at least 1 must involve a complex wound dressing.


Assessment Matrix

Other Information

Student support

Your first point of contact for any support needs with your assessments should be your teacher and assessor. If you require further support, you should consider contacting the following support services at RMIT @ https://www.rmit.edu.au/students/support-and-facilities/student-support


Assessment Adjustments

Students requiring support or adjustments for their formal assessments task or exams should contact Equitable Learning Services (ELS), for more information on the types of adjustments provided, have a look at the adjustments to assessment website.


Special consideration

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Appeals

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