Best Practice Approach to Skin Health and Wound Management: Knowledge and Skills

Badge awarded to

Pelmer Ndiraya

Issued on 23 Jul 2026 by

Nipissing University

This program, delivered through a one-day on-site skills lab and a webinar, is aimed at regulated health professionals, including allied health professionals who self-identify as novice or advanced beginner in their knowledge, skill and judgment of wound prevention, assessment and management. The program provides the opportunity to refine fundamental skills relevant to local wound care, such as debridement (inclusive of conservative sharp wound debridement) and bacterial burden and moisture management (including dressing selection).

Criteria

Type of recognition

Completion-Based Certificate

Learning Objectives

Assess and describe wound characteristics using commonly accepted wound terminology and validated tools.
Identify common goals associated with local wound care.
Select appropriate wound cleansers, cleansing techniques and debridement methods based on the needs of the patient, the wound and available resources.
Differentiate between local, spreading and systemic wound infection and identify appropriate interventions.
Categorize dressings based on their characteristics.
Select dressings based on the needs of the patient, the wound and available resources
Describe the infection continuum and identify signs of high bioburden
Introduce biofilm-based wound care
Discuss strategies to prevent SSIs and Review antimicrobial dressing technologies
Describe holistic approach to surgical wound management.
Use common terminology to describe the appearance of key components of the wound bed, edges, and surrounding area.
Use the MEASURE mnemonic to Identify and describe the seven key components of a wound assessment.
Recognize the role of validated wound assessment tools in describing wound appearance and/or detecting changes in wound status (healing).
Discuss practice changes associated with introducing or changing wound assessment techniques or tools used in your clinical practice setting.
Participate in a case discussion that illustrates a person living with non healing wound due to system-based barriers to healing
Appreciate how involving management on an interdisciplinary team resulted in improved healing outcomes
Discuss how small practice changes can impact patient outcomes.

Course Content

The program is based on the concepts and content in Wounds Canada’s Best Practice Recommendations documents and provides students with the most recent information in a form they can immediately use at the bedside. Once the student successfully completes the on-site skills lab and webinar, they will receive a certificate of successful completion.

Learning Experience, Activities

Students must complete all modules and score 80% on all knowledge-check questions. Students may repeat knowledge-check questions until they achieve a satisfactory grade

Students must attend and participate in all lectures and hands-on activities through the session.

Students must attend and participate in the majority of the live webinar (or watch the archive webinar in its entirety).

Assessment

This is a Completion-Based Certificate.

Students must participate in the following

Online component
Skills Lab
Webinar

Notional learning hours

9.5