Skin and wound care
Heather Hodgson, Lead Nurse Tissue Viability NHSGGC
heather.hodgson@nhs.scot and ggc.tissueviability.education@nhs.scot
About this toolkit
Content has been checked for accessibility by Right Decision Service team in line with relevant RDS Standard Operating Procedures.
Toolkit authors: Members of the National Association of Tissue Viability Nurses Scotland
Processes and key responsibilities:
Boards across NHS Scotland have the responsibility of developing and updating documents within this toolkit. The documents are aligned to the Lead Nurse for Tissue Viability for the Board as detailed below:
- NHSGGC – Wound assessment chart
- NHSGGC – Patient information leaflet
- NHSFV – Malignant wound guidance
- NHSFV – Limb haematoma
- NHS Highland – Excoriation and moisture associated skin damage
- NHS Highland – Scottish Adapted EPUAP Pressure Ulcer Grading Tool
- NHS Grampian – Scottish Wound Assessment and Action Guide
- NHS Tayside - Cellulitis pathway and patient leaflet.
The Lead Nurse set up and chaired a Short life working group to undertake a literature review and update the documents accordingly.
The documents were circulated for comment to the 91 NATVNS members, amended and recirculated until document finalised.
The Chair of each SLWG completed the governance document associated with each document and the NATVNS Committee reviewed this and endorsed the document.
Determining the review date(s) for content.
As standard, we would review all content every 3 years.
Receiving the automated alerts from RDP when the content is due for review, and ensuring that the review takes place in a timely manner:
Team meeting to be arranged and the authors would review their respective content.
Content updates:
The GGC Knowledge Services Team will make updates to the content.
Content has been reviewed and developed by services within NATVNS. Engagement work and feedback from service users has also informed the content of the toolkit.
Copyright – will sit with each of the authoring organisations.
- NHSGGC – Wound assessment chart
- NHSGGC – Patient information leaflet
- NHSFV – Malignant wound guidance
- NHSFV – Limb haematoma
- NHS Highland – Excoriation and moisture associated skin damage
- NHS Highland – Scottish Adapted EPUAP Pressure Ulcer Grading Tool
- NHS Grampian – Scottish Wound Assessment and Action Guide
- NHS Tayside - Cellulitis pathway and patient leaflet.
The content within the toolkit complies with copyright legislation and that permission to embed content from external sources has been obtained where required.
Flaticon images have been used as icons within this toolkit. The RDS use of Flaticon images is covered by the licence paid by Tactuum Ltd as software provider of the RDS platform.
The evidence was gathered from different international sources including literature search, expert opinion and best-practice guidance.
All toolkit content has been approved by the 91 NATVNS members and endorsed by the NATVNS committee.
Covered by the generic RDS feedback form and the ‘monitoring’ section.
The toolkit has been risk assessed, and mitigations put in place where required.
User testing has been completed for this toolkit.