#HC-04-25 Antimicrobial Stewardship in Wound Management
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- Course level: All Levels
About Course
BSACDescription
Learn how to manage wound infection as a healthcare professional
It’s common to control wound infections with antibiotics. Understanding antimicrobial stewardship is key to preventing antimicrobial resistance and treating a range of infections caused by bacteria, parasites, viruses, and fungi.
On this course, you will explore antimicrobial resistance, learn how to treat it, and understand how this affects the safe management of patients with wounds. You will also learn how to recognise and diagnose wound infections and how to implement infection control measures in your own practice. Listen to a sneak preview here.
What topics will you cover?
- What is Wound Management.
- Identification and Diagnosis of Wound Infection.
- Management and Prevention of Infection.
- Principles of Antimicrobial Stewardship in Wound Management.
- Implementation into clinical practice.
Who will you learn with?
I am Karen Ousey, Professor and Director for the Institute of Skin Integrity and Infection Prevention at the University of Huddersfield – UK. I am a nurse by clinical background
Who developed the course?
Founded in 1971, the British Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy exists to facilitate the acquisition and dissemination of knowledge in the field of antimicrobial chemotherapy.
What Will I Learn?
- Explore antimicrobial stewardship.
- Demonstrate infection prevention measures in your own clinical area.
- Identify signs of infection.
- Develop skills to manage wound infections.
- Engage others in your department to carry out antimicrobial stewardship.
- Perform antimicrobial stewardship in your own area and prioritise monitoring.
Topics for this course
Welcome to the course
Welcome to the course!00:03:19
Educators for the course00:02:32
What is EWMA?00:02:19
Introduction to Wound Management
The rationale for Antimicrobial Stewardship in Wound Management
This course teaches us how to identify and diagnose wound infections and how to implement infection control measures in our own practice. Everyone to learn about it, absolutely our life will help ah.
In this course we explore antimicrobial resistance together, learn how to treat it, and learn how it affects the safe management of trauma patients. Good general knowledge course.
Wound infections are a common occurrence, and in this course we learn that antimicrobial management is key to preventing antimicrobial resistance and treating a range of infections caused by bacteria, parasites, viruses and fungi. To be very practical.
We have a lot of bumps and scrapes in our daily life, so we have to learn how to deal with wounds and avoid infection. This course is really good and worth learning for everyone.
Material Includes
- Official Certificate
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Target Audience
- This course is for healthcare professionals involved in wound management and infection prevention.