Session Outline
- Biopsy – When, Where and How
- Debridement and its Application for Wound Care Clinicians – Intro to Practical and Theory
Presenters
Sr Ann Fowler (CNC woundcare) and Dr. Kathrine Osborne
Introduction and description
- Debridement Skills for Wound care – practical and theory.
- Biopsy – Where, When and How (including the importance of the clinical relationship and communication with pathology to improve the clinical pathological correlation.
Workshop purpose
- To familiarise and encourage the use of biopsy and appropriate debridement skills in wound assessment and management.
- To ensure that biopsies are taken in the right way, from the correct part of the wound, and presented to the pathologist in the best condition.
- Maximising the information retrieved from pathology for the treating team, bringing the pathologist to the fore with wound and clinical diagnosis of lesions and wounds.
Key learning objectives
- Biopsy – Teach punch biopsy and elliptical/rectangular biopsy, tissue handling.
- Encourage the use of biopsy as an essential clinical step for wounds that have not responded to standard care within an appropriate time frame.
- Be familiar with types of Debridement, use of appropriate tools and scope of practice.
Prior Knowledge and if any criteria of the participant to enrol
Must be advanced Nursing/Clinicians working regularly with Wound Management. At least 3-5 years post grad experience with wounds and preferably a minimum of a post Grad cert in or including Wound Care.
