Contemporary Wound Management Therapies
PostgraduateMUR-NUR5012025
Course information for 2025 intake
- Study method
- 100% online
- Assessments
- 100% online
- Enrol by
- 16 Feb 2025
- Entry requirements
- Part of a degree
- Duration
- 12 weeks
- Start dates
- 24 Feb 2025,
- 28 July 2025
- Price from
- $2,160
- Upfront cost
- $0
- Loan available
- HECS-HELP and FEE-HELP available
Contemporary Wound Management Therapies
About this subject
On successful completion of the subject, students should be able to:
- Analyse and classify all wound dressing categories, clarifying their respective form and functions.
- Evaluate the clinical application of light therapies and biologics in wound care, emphasising their role in a clinical context
- Investigate the principles governing negative pressure wound therapy and assess its significance in wound management, while critically reviewing the contemporary evidence regarding its efficacy and validity.
- Examine contemporary digital assessment and diagnostic methods for wound management, rigorously evaluating their validity.
- Discriminate between traditional and digital e-health and app-based sources for patient management in wound care, conducting a critical assessment of their reliability and validity.
- Apply advanced wound dressings based on sound evidence and in accordance with a comprehensive wound care plan, articulating clear care goals aligned with patients’ needs across multiple case scenarios.
- Traditional and advanced dressing categories, functionalities, and mode of use across differing wound types.
- Advanced and interactive dressings functionalities and mode of use across differing wound types
- Photo biomodulation and light technologies for diagnosis and management.
- Negative wound pressure therapy: principles and use in clinical practice within a patient and resource context
- Traditional assessment tools and algorithms for wound types and severity.
- Advanced assessment tools for diagnosis and management using digital technologies and their validity in the clinical setting
- Application of advanced diagnostics and dressings in development of wound care plan in a patient-centric framework in case scenarios
Wound care and infection prevention is a rapidly growing clinical area leading the way for tissue management, infection control, diagnosis, and assessment of critical issues in wound management. Technologies such as digital, e-health and app-based sources are being rapidly absorbed into clinical practice. With a growing plethora of advanced wound therapies such as interactive dressings, tissue substitutes, and negative pressure wound therapy there are many tools in the clinician’s armamentarium for wound prevention and management. This subject will investigate contemporary wound assessment and diagnostic modalities and the role of the digital technologies for wound management. The subject will also investigate the different types of advanced healing therapies, dressings, and devices available for clinical use and critically evaluate the evidence and clinical utility in specific health care settings and regions with a patient centric focus. Following completion of the subject, students will be able to describe current diagnostic, assessment and clinical management therapies and critically evaluate theories and concepts with respect to the evidence using a patient centric focus.
Please Note: All students studying at Murdoch University will need to complete the compulsory unit, Murdoch Academic Passport (MAP100), which only takes 2-3 hours to complete online. Find out more: http://goto.murdoch.edu.au/MurdochAcademicPassport.
- Online quiz (30%)
- Discussion Forum (30%)
- Presentation (40%)
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Entry requirements
Part of a degree
To enrol in this subject you must be accepted into one of the following degrees:
Core
- MUR-AWC-GCE-2025 - Graduate Certificate in Advanced Wound Care
Additional requirements
No additional requirements
Study load
- 0.125 EFTSL
- This is in the range of 10 to 12 hours of study each week.
Equivalent full time study load (EFTSL) is one way to calculate your study load. One (1.0) EFTSL is equivalent to a full-time study load for one year.
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Related degrees
Once you’ve completed this subject it can be credited towards one of the following courses
Graduate Certificate in Advanced Wound Care
PostgraduateMUR-AWC-GCE