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The SLEC CommCare Academy aims to be a thought leader in eldercare training and education, and a premium training provider in the community care sector. We will employ innovative pedagogy to deliver a comprehensive range of educational programmes, especially in areas such as palliative care, skin and wound care, dementia care and rehabilitation care.

Check out the courses available below. For additional information, please email commcareacademy@slec.org.sg.

Wound Management & Skin Integrity Course (Advanced)
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Course Overview

Tissue viability is a growing speciality that primarily considers all aspects of skin and soft tissue wounds including acute surgical wounds, pressure ulcers and all forms of leg ulceration.” (Tissue Viability Society 2009).

This unique course addresses the learning needs of healthcare professionals caring for a patient who either have or are at risk of developing wound or skin break down. It offers an opportunity to develop the competencies required to conduct assessments, planning, delivery and evaluation of healthcare interventions for patients in wound management and tissue viability.

The course will also provide you with guidance on fungating wounds, nutrition in wound healing, various methods of wound debridement and Conservative Sharp Wound Debridement (CSWD) as a management strategy for chronic wounds in all healthcare settings, especially in the nursing homes, community, and home care settings.

Course Objectives

At the end of the course, participants will :

  • Evaluate the professional, legal, and ethical issues of current wound care practice
  •  Apply the knowledge, skills and critical understanding of tissue viability required to improve the care of individuals with, or at risk from, tissue viability problems.
  • Identify nutritional requirements in wound healing
  • Provide the nurse’s role in the interdisciplinary wound management team, in providing holistic care for the patient requiring tissue viability management.
  • Describe the purpose of each types of wound debridement and perform conservative sharp wound debridement (CSWD) safely.
  • Describe and perform a wound assessment on palliative & fungating wounds, pain management, wound infection diagnostics, restoring wound bed bacterial balance and establish a treatment plan.
  • Recognize wound care product categories and be able to select them appropriately to ensure appropriate interventions are prescribed in line with patient needs
  • Differentiate the nursing management of fungating lesion, vascular, stoma and complex wounds

Who should attend

  • This course is suitable for Registered Nurses, Enrolled Nurses, Allied Health Professionals

Training Hours
48

Ms Susie Goh
Director of Nursing, Residential-based Nursing in St Luke’s ElderCare

Susie Goh has extensive experiences as a wound and ostomy nurse across a variety of settings. She is the Master Trainer at St Luke’s ElderCare, Learning Hub. She has attained her Stoma Care and Continence Management Certificate, Singapore, Wound Management Certificate at University of South Australia, Faculty of Nursing, and Post Graduate Certificate in Wound Healing and Tissue Repair, Cardiff University, UK. Susie has a deep passion and interest in wound care, particularly in the management of skin tear, pressure injury, and ostomy care and has conducted many wound courses and workshops for nurses. Currently a committee member for the Wound Healing Society (Singapore) and member of the National Quality Council, Nursing Subcommittee Pressure Injury Workgroup.

A/Prof Edward Poon
Chief Nurse and Academic Director in St Luke’s ElderCare

PhD (Monash), MSc Palliative Care (King’s College, UK), BHSN (Sydney), Adv Dip Nsg Neuroscience (Singapore), Infection Control Cert (Hong Kong), POLST Certified, End of Life Nursing Education Consortium (ELNEC) Trainer, SRN

Ms Ler Yi Bin
Dietitian

Bachelor degree in Nutrition and Dietetics, ACTA certified

Yi Bin has been providing nutrition care in the community since 2015. She finds passion in sharing her nutrition knowledge to the community through interactive and creative approach. She has been providing multiple nutrition health talks to different target groups and facilitate in different training sessions whereby the participants find her sessions enjoyable and insightful.

The full course is $1,580.50 (including prevailing GST). Prevailing course fee subsidy at 90% for Singapore Citizens/Permanent Residents and 45% for work pass holders working in eligible community care organisations.

Available date(s):
a. 10, 17, 24, 31 May and 7, 14 June 2024
b. 4, 11,18, 25 October and 1, 8 November 2024

Time:
9am to 6pm

Venue:
Eagles Center
166 Bukit Merah Central
#04-3531
Singapore 150166

* The training venue may change due to unforeseen circumstances and the trainees will be informed accordingly.

For AIC Community Care Organisations, please register via AIC LMS at

AIC Learning Network

For additional information, please contact Learning Hub at  commcareacademy@slec.org.sg

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