Wound Education, the subject everyone wants, from novice to expert, but where so many barriers exist to getting it just right. In this episode we burrow down into a recent Australian publication discussing recommendations for undergraduate wound education. This is another prickly concept our listeners will have dealt with and have opinions on, no matter what your discipline, experience level or clinical setting. So let's know what your thoughts are because we will talk more in future episodes about the status of wound education.

Timestamps:

00:00 Intro

00:34 Wound education for novice clinicians

01:34 Novices desperate for education

03:35 The needs of wound management education for medical staff

05:15 The assumption that everyone in the healthcare workforce has basic wound care knowledge

06:45 Critiquing research on wound education

09:32 How is the term wound expert defined

10:36 Academic wound education models versus clinical realities and the needs of clinicians

11:10 Irony of clinicians requesting advanced wound education when the basics are not understood

12:08 Fragmented, illogical, or misrepresented content

14:02 Polysemy in healthcare

14:32 What is a simple wound?

14:44 What is a wound?

15:34 Challenges of developing clinically realistic educational wound frameworks

15:47 A tiny wound

17:15 Sterile versus clean technique. Really really?

17:39 Coveting and naval gazing

19:35 Translating academic wound educational models into clinical practice

20:42 When “new” evidence is based on superseded guidelines

21:59 Clinically relevant undergraduate education

22:26 What about foundational content for consistent safe practice

23:04 What’s on the wall of your treatment room that can guide you

23:31 When foundational content is advanced in clinical reality

24:44 Recommended foundational content

26:54 Need for real-world research

28:10 Opportunities for nurse coaching/mentorship

29:10 Are wound management standards and expectations too high?

30:35 When non wound “experts” talk on expert wound topics

31:31 Profiling what wound management experts do

33:06 Read the antibiofilm and International Wound Infection documents for clinical pearls

Resources mentioned:

• The Australian Guidelines for the Prevention and Control of Infection in Healthcare 2019 are published on the MAGICapp allowing for ‘point of care’ use where the guidelines can be viewed on any tablet, phone or computer (updated multiple times a year).
• Haesler E. and Carville K. (2023). Australian Standards for Wound Prevention and Management. Australian Health Research Alliance, Wounds Australia and WA Health Translation Network.