For?

Registered nurses, associate practitioners and health care assistants 

Aims

  • To enable the student to increase their knowledge in the role of the therapy and its place in enhancing  wound healing and/or control exudate.
  • To enable the student to increase their knowledge in using the different machines according to type of wound.

Learning outcomes: the student will be able to use the:

  • therapy appropriately for different types of wounds.
  • different types of dressing, their modifications as the wound heals and machine pressure use accordingly.

Update knowledge and competency can be achieved with:

  • Update topical negative pressure theory with e-learning module.
  • Complete quiz
  • PP for application of dressings and setting up machine.
  • Supervised practice with an experienced nurse in VAC application.