Study Guide

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 scale

1-5

Assessment methods and criteria

Graduation-level know-how and skills
Students can
a) use professional vocabulary and concepts in an expert way in different situations.
b) evaluate information sources critically.
c) work as team members in working life expert duties and identify and describe the problems of the professional field.
d) evaluate operations in customer, user and target group situations.
e) choose appropriate models, methods, software and techniques according to the purpose and justify these choices.
f) promote teams’ goal-oriented operation.
g) apply critically the ethical principles of the professional field in different situations.

Qualifications

High risk foot clients