Preventing, assessing and treating skin tears

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#Emergency and urgent care

Increase your awareness of the pathophysiology, risk factors, initial treatment and ongoing management of skin tears.

Who is this resource for?

Registered nurse

Student nurse

Authors

Jenny Prentice

Nurse consultant, wound skin ostomy service, Hall & Prior Health & Aged Care Group, and director, Trojan Health, Perth, Australia

Ray Samuriwo

Associate professor adult nursing, professional lead adult nursing and director of postgraduate research, School of Nursing and Healthcare Leadership, Faculty of Health Studies, University of Bradford, England

Samantha Holloway

Reader, centre for medical education, College of Biomedical and Life Sciences, Cardiff University School of Medicine, Wales.

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