Overview

Burns management is a complex area of practice that can involve multiple interventions from a range of Health Care Professionals, often over a prolonged period of time. Patients will  transition between acute and community services and will require input from highly skilled practitioners if their healing outcomes are to be optimised. This study day will offer insight into some of the clinical/ surgical decisions  that are made when a patient presents with a burn injury and will set out some of the challenges faced with their care.

Who’s the study day suitable for?

This study day is aimed at all clinicians involved in the patients journey following a burn injury. This includes: Nurses or Doctors working in A&E, emergency assessment units, minor injury/ first aid units, Practice nurses, District/ community nurses, Plastic surgery/ trauma nurses, Tissue Viability nurses, paediatric/ childrens nurses, Registered nurses with an interest in burns management, post graduate clinicians with an interest in burns management.

Programme

• 09.30 – 09.45 – Welcome & Introduction – Sarah Gardner, Society of Tissue Viability Education Facilitator/Director, Wound Matters Ltd
• 09.45 – 10.00 – Burns and plastics services in the UK – Claire Porter, Advanced Practice Lead Burns & Plastic’s University Hospitals of Leicester
• 10.00 – 10.30 – Adult burn wound management – Donna Souter, Burns Trauma & Rehabilitation Specialist Nurse & Burns Course Programme Lead, Manchester Burns Service & Manchester University
• 10.30 – 10.40 – Q&A
• 10.40 – 10.55 – Industry presentation – Flen Health
• 10.55 – 11.05 – Comfort break
• 11.05 – 11.35 – Referrals and pathways for burns – a national perspective – Ms Reena Agarwal, Consultant Plastic surgeon, Leicester
• 11.35 – 11.45 – Q&A
• 11.45 – 12.15 – Paediatric Considerations for Burn care, Toxic Shock & Skin Loss Conditions – Liz Nicholls, Burns Nurse Specialist, Sheffield Children’s Hospital
• 12.15 – 12.25 – Q&A
• 12.25 – 12.40 – Industry presentation – H&R Healthcare
• 12.40 – 13.10 – Lunch
• 13.10 – 13.40 – Psychological impact of scarring and altered body image – Christia Huntington, VTCT Foundation PhD Student, Centre for Appearance Research (CAR), University of the West of England
• 13.40 – 13.50 – Q&A
• 13.50 – 14.05 – Industry presentation – Parafricta
• 14.05 – 14.35 – Scar management – Liz Rose, Clinical Specialist Occupational Therapist. Hand therapy and scar management
• 14.35 – 14.45 – Q&A
• 14.45 – 15.00 – Industry presentation – Polynovo
• 15.00 – 15.10 – Comfort Break
• 15:10 – 15:40 – Reconstructive options – Claire Porter Advanced Practice Lead Burns & Plastic’s University Hospitals of Leicester & Emma Readman, Senior Lecturer in Adult Nursing (previously Burns & Plastics Advanced Nurse Practitioner), De Montfort University
• 15.40 – 15.50 – Q&A
• 15.50 – 16.20 – Burn assessment & First aid – Mary Kennedy, Lead Nurse, Nottingham Burns Unit
• 16.20 – 16.30 – Q&A
• 16.30 – Round up of the day/close

Download a pdf copy of the Programme – timings may be subject to change

Industry presentations

There will be an interactive presentation of wound care products and preventative aids from our industry partners:

Flen Health

H&R Healthcare

Parafricta

PolyNovo

Our Trustees look forward to welcoming you all virtually to the classroom