Posted on: 16 June 2022
Luxmi Dhoonmoon, CNWL’s Tissue Viability Nurse Consultant (TVN) and Jacqui Fletcher, Independent Nurse Consultant conducted an international survey with healthcare professionals, to learn more about how skin tones are assessed and where more education is needed.
The results from the survey were published in an article for the Wounds International online journal.
Visit the Wounds International website to read the article
The survey highlighted the need for an increased range of images showing varying skin tones (i.e. showing darker skin tones, not just white skin) in educational materials, so that healthcare professionals can see the ways in which different wounds and skin conditions may present in a range of skin tones.