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This learning pathway for students covers Foundations and Advanced Principles of wound assessment and care, identifying appropriate wound treatment and best practice for compliance in wound swab culture. This pathway enables clinical documentation and report writing with a guide to deliver patient education for continued care and chronic wound prevention.

Learning Outcomes

• Accurately identify wound types

• Apply appropriate wound assessment methods to clinical practice

• Identify chronic wound features and associated clinical features including interpretation of wound terminology

• Identify and perform appropriate wound cleansing and debridement methods

• Obtain a compliant wound swab culture using best practice methods

• Make informed appropriate choices of wound dressings based on accurate wound assessment

• Use appropriate documentation and report writing methods to provide patient education, and consistent and ongoing care.

Understand the benefit and development of patient care plans for chronic disease, health interventions that identify risk factors and supporting behaviour changes from team care to interventions that deliver improved health outcomes.

Learning Outcomes

• Determine the persons chronic disease management needs, identify risk factors, understand engagement

• Support the person in behaviour change, recognise the need for referrals, recognise the need for follow-up and review

• Apply effective care planning techniques to support the management process.

*Students must complete the Foundations of Chronic Disease online module to book into this program.

Those who attend our Self–care, Managing Stress, Avoiding Compassion Fatigue, and Burnout workshop will learn:

-The reality of impacts of stress and secondary trauma in health care

-The importance of self-care

-The impact of stress on the nervous system

-How the human nervous system responds to stress and self-compassion

-Combating stress using cognitive and physiological strategies

-Strategies to identify symptoms of compassion fatigue

-Psychological capital, self-care, and burnout prevention

-Barriers and challenges to self-care and self-compassion

-Embedding these workshop learnings in everyday professional practice

We have Dr Wong, Dr Ting and Dr Rangasamy presenting a short presentation on various cardiac related issues.

To book email supervisor@coastalcc.com.au by Tuesday 26 September.

As rural Australia faces a rising shortage of GPs, it’s never been more important to attract doctors into country communities. But attracting doctors is only half the battle, providing an environment they are happy to stay and thrive in is just as important.

This one-day online multidisciplinary workshop is relevant for General Practitioners and Allied Health Professionals.

The workshop will provide participants with the skills to evaluate research on promising new strategies for improving care, whether they be medications, models of care, interventions in labour or any other health care. It will empower participants to respond to the questions asked of them in day-to-day practice.

The example studies for discussion will focus on maternity and newborn care and women's health, but will be relevant for participants from other disciplines.

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