Wound and pressure sore ideas

[Vtachy1]

You all have such great advice!!! Did you have any good instructors that had hands on ideas for wound and pressure ulcers? I was trying to think of a way to make it hands on for them instead of power points all of the time.

I thought about using lasagna noodles for the skin to demonstrate pressure and friction or tissue paper to demonstrate the thin and fragile skin.

[Missingyou, CNA]

Seeing pictures (other than those in the book) and how quickly they can develop made a huge impression on me when I was doing my training.

If there happens to be one on a resident when doing clinicals it would be a good learning experience for your students to see it even if it is stage 1.

[Leonardsmom,LPN]

Agree with the pictures, those make a lasting impression. As a hands on experience, to help students understand how continuous pressure causes pain and discomfort, you could have the students have to sit on a cushion that is filled with a substance that would be uncomfortable to sit on for a period of time. Ideas possibly something like dried beans, marbles, decorative rocks, nothing sharp that could cause harm but something that is uncomfortable to sit on. Experiencing short term discomfort I think would help to think about how someone that can not adjust themselves start to feel after being in a certain position for an extended amount of time, which is nothing compared to the pain after a pressure sore has developed.