Pressure care education & training
Our mission at the OSKA Academy is to ensure all patients and residents, at an elevated risk of pressure ulcers, receive the highest standards of pressure area care possible. Our goal is to promote and drive clinical excellence across all areas of pressure ulcer prevention and management.
Working in partnership, our experienced team of clinically qualified Tissue Viability Nurse experts will provide your health and social care professionals with state-of-the-art, evidence-based knowledge, information and skills to enable them to deliver optimal clinical care for your patients and residents.
All with more than 20 years of nursing and teaching experience, our Tissue Viability Clinical Team will support and encourage your staff to achieve the best clinical outcomes for your patients/residents. OSKA training packages will always reflect the most current information and practices.
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Basic Daily Skin Inspections & Skin Care
Designed to promote awareness of what caregivers should look for when delivering daily personal care – pressure ulcers & moisture lesions.
Recommended for healthcare assistants, carers and front-line staff of all disciplines including AHPs.
In-person | Microsoft Teams | Zoom
CPD: 1.5hrs
Heal the Heels Digital Toolkit
Revolutionise the way you care for pressure ulcers in heels. Digital Toolkit designed for your Trainers/Educators to deliver and packed with a 30-minute training video delivered by expert Tissue Viability Nurses, A3 & A4 posters, supporting training notes for care givers, Test your Knowledge, a customisable CPD certificate & more.
Recommended for healthcare assistants, carers & front-line staff of all disciplines including AHPs.
Digital Toolkit delivered by your Trainers/Educators
CPD: 30 mins
Pressure Ulcer Prevention
Covering basic anatomy and physiology of pressure ulcers, categorisation, grey areas, aSSKINg principles and care planning.
Recommended for carers and front-line staff of all disciplines including AHPs.
In-person | Microsoft Teams | Zoom
CPD: 2hrs
Basic Wound Care
Covering acute and chronic wounds and the process of wound healing. Includes wound assessment using TIME to act as an aid to assessment and care planning.
Dressing selection will be also be explored in relation to wound assessment.
Recommended for frontline nursing staff and senior HCAs.
In-person | Microsoft Teams | Zoom
CPD: 2hrs
Pressure Ulcer Prevention & Basic Wound Care
Building on the 2hr PUP training, includes the different elements of pressure ulcer treatment – basic wound care treatment, dressing types, clinical indications for use, wound management guidelines, case examples & pressure relieving equipment.
Recommended for carers and front-line staff of all disciplines including AHPs.
In-person | Microsoft Teams | Zoom
CPD: 4hrs
Root Cause Analysis Training
Investigation training for acquired pressure ulcers to establish gaps in care and facilitate a healthy learning environment for staff inclusion in Quality Improvement. Includes history of RCAs, completing an RCA, who to involve, how to gather information, how to use RCA findings to inform actions and future practice, how to make this sustainable in the current climate.
Recommended for clinical quality or patient safety teams and home managers.
In-person | Microsoft Teams | Zoom
CPD: 3hrs
The aSSKINg Bundle
Making pressure ulcer prevention the best it can be. Management of pressure ulcers, and step by step approach using the aSSKINg principles and how this can be built into an individualised plan of care to meet the pressure ulcer prevention and management needs of the people you care for.
Recommended for healthcare assistants, carers and front-line staff of all disciplines including AHPs.
In-person | Microsoft Teams | Zoom
CPD: 8hrs
PURPOSE-T – the recommended assessment tool of choice
PURPOSE-T – what, how and why?
Understand why screening should follow a structured and replicable approach and how to use PURPOSE-T practicably within a clinical setting.
Learn when to use what type of surface for primary & secondary pressure ulcer prevention & treatment pathways.
Recommended for healthcare assistants, carers and front-line staff of all disciplines including AHPs.
In-person | Microsoft Teams | Zoom
CPD: 1hr
Pressure Care Audit
On site audit of a Care Home to undertake an assessment of current pressure care practises, knowledge and documentation as well as an audit of existing pressure damage.
Recommended for clinical quality or patient safety teams and home managers.
On site. Full Day
