Free Online Course by FutureLearn: Antimicrobial Stewardship in Wound Management

Future Learn is offering a free online course under the theme of “Antimicrobial Stewardship in Wound Management”.

It’s common to control wound infections with antibiotics. Understanding antimicrobial stewardship is key to preventing antimicrobial resistance and treating a range of infections caused by bacteria, parasites, viruses, and fungi.

On this course, you will explore antimicrobial resistance, learn how to treat it, and understand how this affects the safe management of patients with wounds. You will also learn how to recognise and diagnose wound infections and how to implement infection control measures in your own practice.

Course Topics:

Introduction to Wound Management and Antimicrobial Stewardship

• Welcome to week 1
• Introduction to Wound Management
• The rationale for Antimicrobial Stewardship in Wound Management
• End of Week 1

What is Wound infection and how to apply AMS practices

• Welcome to week 2
• Wound Infection
• Management of Wound Infection
• Applying Antimicrobial Stewardship to Wound Management
• End of Week 2

Implementation of Antimicrobial Stewardship into clinical practice

• Welcome to Week 3
• Wound Management & Antimicrobial Stewardship
• Applying Antimicrobial Stewardship within Wound Management
• End of Week 3
• End of Course

Course objectives:

By the end of the course, you‘ll be able to...

• Explore antimicrobial stewardship.

• Demonstrate infection prevention measures in your own clinical area.

• Identify signs of infection.

• Develop skills to manage wound infections.

• Engage others in your department to carry out antimicrobial stewardship.

• Perform antimicrobial stewardship in your own area and prioritise monitoring.

This course is intended for:

This course is for healthcare professionals involved in wound management and infection prevention.

Course costs:

Learner can join this course for free and get access to it for 5 weeks.

Or upgrade this course for $94 and gets:

• Access to this course for as long as it’s on Future Learn.
• Access to this course’s tests as well as a print and digital Certificate of Achievement once he/she is eligible.

Or buy unlimited for $ 189.99 for one year and gets:  

• Access to this course, and hundreds of other FutureLearn short courses and tests for a year.
• A printable digital Certificate of Achievement on all short courses once they are eligible.
• The freedom to keep access to any course he/she has achieved a digital Certificate of Achievement on, for as long as the course exists on Future Learn.
• The flexibility to complete own choice of short courses in learner’s own time within the year.

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