Contemporary Wound Management Therapies
PostgraduateMUR-NUR5012025
- Study method
- 100% online
- Assessments
- 100% online
- Enrol by
- 20 July 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:
- Compare advanced healing therapies and devices for wound care management
- Integrate digital technologies, including e-health and app-based technologies, into planning for effective wound management.
- Evaluate evidence-based practices in wound management across various healthcare settings.
- Formulate comprehensive wound management care plans that integrate evidence-based practices, patient-specific needs, and interdisciplinary collaboration to optimise healing outcomes
- Outline the psychosocial, cultural, financial and practice implications for holistic wound care delivery within the contemporary Australian healthcare system.
- 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 unit will investigate contemporary wound management therapies and the role of the digital technologies for wound management. The unit 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.
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.
- Care Plan (40%)
- Discussion Forum/Vlog (25%)
- Narrated Powerpoint Presentation (35%)
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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
Prior study
To help set you up for success before you start this subject, we suggest completing or having equivalent knowledge in:
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