Skin Health Toolkit
The Skin Health Toolkit provides you with a set of learning resources to support you with maintaining healthy skin. This course consists of resources that provide flexible and accessible learning, meaning you can re-visit them at any time.
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Online
Who is this toolkit 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. It also supports assessors and those undertaking the work-related dermatitis health surveillance competency assessment.What will this toolkit give me?
- first-hand accounts of living with severe and chronic dermatitis and their journey to healthy hands
- advice on preventing work-related dermatitis in nursing staff and what safety reps can do to help protect members
- activity on how to avoid work-related dermatitis and carry out skin checks
- information on the RCN’s work-related dermatitis health surveillance competency checklist and Skin Disease Competency Frameworks
- access to a document on glove use and the prevention of work-related dermatitis.
Credits
The Skin Health Toolkit has been developed in collaboration with occupational health specialist nurses who are members of the RCN’s Public Health Forum.
Resource last reviewed
2 Apr 2024
Resource lead
Resource sponsor
This Skin Health Toolkit has been produced in collaboration with Molnlycke and SC Johnson Professional.
The RCN delivers quality-assured and up-to-date resources for the nursing workforce. Reviewed annually in line with the RCN Quality Assurance policy, all RCN Learn resources meet the RCN’s Nine Quality Standards.
