This workshop has previously been as success and we are investigating options for future workshops.
The workshop provides a variety of topics to assist and enhance work practises for nurses.
The program covers:
- Recognising skin cancers
- Fundamentals of skin cancer management
- Introduction to dermoscopy
- Equipment for skin cancer surgery including suture material
- Setting up a procedure room for skin surgery
- Cleaning and sterilizing of equipment
- Dressings: theory and practical
- Setting up a tray for a skin procedure
- Maintaining the sterile field
- Infection control
- Post operative explanations
- Wound assessment
- How to suture
- How to do cryotherapy
- How to do full body photography
- Dealing with complaints
- Consent for procedures including financial consent
- Photographing skin lesions
- And more
