Course detail
Wound Care Awareness
This theory-based course provides practical wound care awareness for carers, senior carers, nurses and other adult health and social care staff in England. It explains common wound types, factors that affect healing, pressure damage, skin tears, leg ulcers, diabetic foot wounds, moisture-associated skin damage, wound infection, pain, dressings, documentation, escalation and person-centred support. It is suitable for care homes, domiciliary care, supported living and other CQC-regulated adult social care services.
Topics
34
Duration
2h
Quiz pass mark
100%
Course structure
Learning path
Topics are completed in order before the final assessment unlocks.
Course Description
1. Introduction: why wound awareness matters
2. Legal and regulatory framework
3. Skin structure and the purpose of wound healing
4. Acute and chronic wounds
5. The wound healing process
6. Factors that delay healing
7. Person-centred wound care: dignity, consent and comfort
8. Roles, responsibilities and limits of competence
9. Wound assessment: what carers observe and what clinicians assess
10. Wound documentation, body maps and photography
11. Pressure damage and pressure ulcers
12. Preventing pressure damage
13. Pressure ulcer categories: awareness only
14. Skin tears and fragile skin
15. Moisture-associated skin damage and incontinence-associated dermatitis
16. Leg ulcers: venous and arterial awareness
17. Diabetic foot wounds and urgent escalation
18. Surgical wounds and wound dehiscence
19. Wound infection: local signs and systemic deterioration
20. Sepsis awareness and emergency escalation
21. Exudate, odour and bleeding
22. Pain and wound care
23. Dressings: purpose and safe support
24. Infection prevention, hand hygiene and PPE
25. Nutrition, hydration and wound healing
26. Mobility, repositioning and pressure redistribution
27. Wound complications and red flags
28. Care homes, domiciliary care and supported living
29. Transfers, handover and continuity of care
30. Safeguarding, incidents and duty of candour
31. Practical scenarios
32. Key learning points
REFERENCES AND FURTHER READING
Final quiz
Final step20 questions and 100% required to pass and receive the certificate.
