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Preventing, assessing and treating skin tears

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Preventingassessingandtreatingskintears

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Increase your awareness of the pathophysiology, risk factors, initial treatment and ongoing management of skin tears.

Who is this resource for?

This resource is aimed at nurses and nursing support workers across all settings and levels of practice, including students of health, social work and care professions.

Authors

Jenny Prentice

Nurse consultant, wound skin ostomy service, Hall & Prior Health & Aged Care Group, and director, Trojan Health, Perth, Australia

Ray Samuriwo

Associate professor adult nursing, professional lead adult nursing and director of postgraduate research, School of Nursing and Healthcare Leadership, Faculty of Health Studies, University of Bradford, England

Samantha Holloway

Reader, centre for medical education, College of Biomedical and Life Sciences, Cardiff University School of Medicine, Wales.

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