A scraped knee, a post-surgical incision and a pressure injury don’t have much in common on the surface, but there’s a mistake that still shows up constantly in healthcare settings: reaching for the same dressing regardless of what the wound is. Wound care has come a long way over the last twenty years. Cotton dressings […]
The Aged Care Quality and Safety Commission keeps flagging the same issue: inadequate wound management is one of the most common clinical complaints they receive. Most of those complaints, traced back far enough, start at the purchasing decision. Clinical managers are regularly caught between tight budgets, shifting compliance standards, and the simple fact that residents […]