Wound Management Course
Presenters |
Bekk Christensen
Occupational Therapist
QLD
Jan Rice
Consultant
VIC
Angela Thynne
Occupational Therapist
QLD
Jade Wong
Accredited Hand Therapist
NSW
Course type
This course is an AHTA Elective course.
Elective courses are suitable for practitioners:
- that are experienced and wish to upskill or revise current best-practice
- wishing to gain greater knowledge in a specific area of hand therapy
- wanting continued professional learning (CPD hours)
- undertaking to complete the Accredited Hand Therapist credential.
CPD
This course is 20 CPD hours for attendance only.
Participants will receive 50 CPD hours if they complete and pass the assessment.
Investment
Non-Member $1500.00 inc GST
Associate $975.00 inc GST
Accredited Hand Therapist $900.00 inc GST
Overview
This course provides online, face-to-face and practical learning opportunities.
Wound management and understanding factors influencing the ability to heal are essential for effective practice as a hand therapist. You must be able to design and adjust your treatment practices, employing the biopsychosocial model to the individual situation before you, to ensure patient-centred care and best practice.
The Wound Management Course comprises four modules and will be structured as follows.
Module 1
An online module composed of five 30-minute video presentations regarding the science of wound healing presented by Jan Rice.
Overview continued
Module 2
A face-to-face workshop at the Sydney Hospital. This one-day workshop is presented by Kay Maddison (Hand Clinical Nurse Consultant) and the Hand Therapy team, including Jade Wong, Sarah Walsh and Elaine Leahy.
The workshop will provide you with the hand therapy nuance to wound care, in-depth knowledge of dressing the wounded hand. It will assess practical competence in aseptic technique and suture/clip removal during its practical assessment.
Modules 3 and 4
A face-to-face workshop to be held in Sydney following module 2. This module covers oedema and scar management, presented by Bekk Christensen and Angela Thynne. This workshop will involve a practical assessment of competence in oedema bandaging.
Refer to the presenter information below.
Pre-requisites
Participants must be a graduate occupational therapist or physiotherapist.
Learning outcomes
At the completion of this course, participants will be able to:
- Apply knowledge from the course to assess and evaluate upper limb wounds, scars and oedema for clients.
- Apply knowledge from the course to assess and perform appropriate suture removal and oedema management techniques.
- Use clinical reasoning to interpret the assessment results and diagnose wound, scar and oedema conditions.
- Outline and defend an evidence-informed, biopsychosocial treatment plan and specific wound, scar and oedema interventions to optimise client outcomes.
Registration
You must check the prerequisites for this course before completing registration.
Discounts apply for Associate members and Accredited Hand Therapists.
Cancellation
We endeavour to run all courses as scheduled; however, our courses sometimes do not meet the required minimum numbers to go ahead.
We advise that you DO NOT book flights and/or accommodation until the registration closing date (one month before the course).
Please contact us for advice if you wish to book flights earlier.
Refer to the cancellation policy linked below.
Assessment
Refer to Course Assessment Policy.
Participants may choose to undertake the assessment.
Completing and passing the assessment is a requirement for those wishing to apply to become an Accredited Hand Therapist. To achieve full points awarded towards AHT, participants must achieve a 65% overall grade to pass the course.
The assessment comprises three components:
- Practical skills - assessed during the face-to-face days.
- An online exam (90 minutes) scheduled 3 weeks after the course.
- A Case Study presentation, due 8 weeks after the course.
This final assessment piece requires the submission of a short, narrated and recorded PowerPoint in a Pecha Kucha (refer below) format, due eight weeks after the course.
Quality
AHTA courses meet Australian Quality Framework (AQF) Level 8 and are designed according to best practice education standards.
Courses are developed and presented by Accredited Hand Therapists.
All presenters have undertaken a four-stage presenter training program.
Pre-learning
You MUST* attend a pre-course webinar on how to use Canvas, an online Learning Management System. You will receive the details for this pre-course webinar via email.
You MUST* have a laptop or desktop for this pre-course webinar and the course. You cannot use an iPad or iPhone.
There are compulsory pre-course modules:
Module 1.0 Introduction – Reading
Module 1.1 Physiology of healing – Video
Module 1.2 Skin anatomy and physiology – Video
Module 1.3 Wound assessment and principles – Video
Module 1.4 Wound closure – Video
Module 1.5 Wound dressing – Video
Module 1.6 Pressure injuries – Reading
We would recommend that you start the pre-learning as soon as possible.
* If you do not attend the pre-course webinar or have the correct equipment, we will NOT be able to assist you at the course or the exam, as this will impact the learning time of others in the group.
Content access
The AHTA uses an online Learning Management System (LMS) called Canvas. Refer to 'Pre-learning.'
This will be your ‘online textbook’ for all course content – including videos, pictures, written content, references, and links to other web pages. When you have registered for the course, you will be emailed a link to enrol.
Once you receive this link, you are encouraged to create login details, ready to use on the day. The Home Page includes important information, such as Course Information, Assessment, and Help and Support. The Modules tab is where you will find the course content, including any pre-learning. Announcements are where the course presenters can communicate with you before or during the course. Discussion allows course participants to ask questions or communicate with the presenters and other course participants.
Assessment details
A Pecha Kucha presentation requires 20 seconds of commentary per slide for 20 consecutive, automatically advancing slides. Your presentation should go for no longer than 6 mins and 40 seconds, or you can shorten your presentation to 15 slides if you can cover the content in that time.
The notes section of your PowerPoint should include details of the case study of no more than 1000 words, which can be your script or slightly more detailed.
In summary
- 15 – 20 slides automatically advancing at 20 seconds
- Narrate and record your case study information
- A Pecha Kucha template will be provided.
For help recording go to Pecha Kucha Tutorial- How to add sound to PowerPoint - YouTube or Record a slide show with narration and slide timings (microsoft.com)
Ensure you use a minimum of four (4) journal articles from the recent literature to aid in your clinical reasoning and justification of treatment/management. Include these in a reference list on your slide or the notes section.
Choose articles that are, where possible:
- Relevant to the treatment of the upper limb wound, scar and oedema.
- At least 2 published in the last five years, 2018-present.
- Useful in clinical reasoning.
The case studies will be provided to you in the face-to-face course.
Exam
This course has an exam. The exam is not compulsory. Refer to CPD and Assessment for more information.
Participants undertaking the assessment MUST read the course exam instructions at the link below.
Time
The Wound Management Course times are as follows:
Friday 8.00 am – 4.45 pm
Saturday 9.00 am – 5.30 pm.
Dietary requirements
Please note dietary requirements when completing the online registration form. Not all requirements can be catered for at all venues.
What to bring
You MUST* have a laptop or desktop for this pre-course webinar and the course. You cannot use an iPad or iPhone.
* If you do not attend the pre-course webinar or have the correct equipment, the AHTA will not be able to assist you at the course or the exam, as this will impact the learning time of others in the group.
Presenter information
Bekk Christensen
Team Leader OT, Mater Hospital Brisbane, Lymphoedema therapist and wound care
Elaine Leahy
PT, Senior Hand Therapist, Sydney Hospital
Kay Maddison
Hand Clinical Nurse Consultant, Sydney Hospital
Jan Rice
Wound Nurse Consultant and Director of Wounds R Us
Angela Thynne
Director: Scar Care, Credentialed Private Occupational Therapist to the RBWH Adult Burns Service
Sarah Walsh
OT, Senior Hand Therapy practitioner, Sydney Hospital
Jade Wong
PT, AHT, Hand Therapy Manager, Sydney Hospital
Disclaimers
Photography and videography
Photos and videos taken at our course may be used for promotion and evaluation; including press releases; publicity materials, newsletters, eNews, social media, presentations and our website. They will not be accompanied by names or other details that could identify individuals.
If you DO NOT consent to the AHTA using images or videos containing your image, you must contact the AHTA office prior to the course and advise the presenter on arrival on the first day of the course.
Intellectual property disclaimer
By registering for a course, you agree that during the course, any contributions verbally or in writing that you make regarding improving, altering or amending the content of the course may be used by the AHTA in subsequent courses and will become the intellectual property of AHTA.
