Posted on: 20 November 2024
Milton Keynes’ Tissue Viability Community Nursing Team visited their colleagues in other community teams to help raise awareness of pressure ulcers and how to treat them.
Tissue viability nurses are specialists in treating wounds that take a long time to heal, this includes pressure ulcers.
The team asked questions like:
- Categorise the pressure ulcer
- How would you manage this wound?
This was part of the Trust’s Community Services Month campaign, to showcase the work CNWL’s community services do to care for residents in their homes and close to home. Part of this campaign was to encourage teams to work closer with each other and share expertise to further improve care.
The team said they had lots of engagement and interest with staff, but the trolley they used to carry their teaching equipment may not recover – it did a lot of miles that day.
Pressure ulcers are concerning but largely avoidable, The Society of Tissue Viability have their own awareness campaign to help prevent pressure ulcers with the National Wound Care Strategy. Links to more information is below:
