Local wound care and off-loading therapies in foot wound careLaajuus (5 cr)

Objective

You know the wound management principles in health care and are familiar with the care of foot ulcers and offloading in wound care.

Content

What kind of foot wounds are there?
What kind of methods of local and special wound care are used?
How do you do wound offloading?
What are Total contact cast and geisha shoe?
What is multidiciplinary team work in wound care?

Evaluation

Students can
a. use professional vocabulary and concepts and show their information-based know-how.
b. use the basic techniques of searching information in specific situations
d. take customers, users and target groups into consideration.
f. work as team members.
g. observe the ethical principles of the professional field in their actions.

Qualifications

High risk foot clients