Learning Resources

CliniMed have partnered with both Wounds UK and JCN to bring the following online resources to healthcare practitioners who have an interest in wound care products that help to maintain your patients' skin integrity.

eLearning courses with Wounds UK

Preventing Complications at Wound Appliance Changes (CPD-accredited)

This is a free one-hour online learning module providing essential information on:

• The importance of healthy skin
• How to identify skin at risk of damage
• Strategies you can use to protect vulnerable skin
• The role of adhesives and appliances
• The impact of skin trauma on patient wellbeing

You’ll also have the opportunity to apply what you’ve learnt to three case studies. Register now at www.wounds-uk.com/course.

This module details information about our Appeel Sterile Medical Adhesive Remover and how it can help to reduce pain and skin trauma.

Wounds UK - Improving patients’ quality of life, self-esteem and body image with odour-controlling dressings

Free access to this latest 2022 article written by a Tissue Viability Nurse, Ayesha Marshall who addresses the issue of wound odours. The article reviews how to assess wound odour, the impact of odour on people with wounds, and how to manage wounds odour using odour-controlling dressings such as CliniSorb which is made by CliniMed.

Click here to read the article.

Maintaining Skin Integrity

(CPD-accredited)

This is a free one-hour online learning module providing essential information on:

• The importance of the skin as an organ
• Why maintaining skin integrity is vital to prevent further complications

This module details information about our LBF Barrier Cream and LBF Sterile Barrier Film Range and how they can help to shield skin from the damaging effects of bodily fluids, friction, pressure and adhesive trauma. You’ll also have the opportunity to apply what you’ve learnt to six case studies. Register now at www.wounds-uk.com/course.

Wound malodour: an overview

(CPD-accredited)

This is a free one-hour online learning module providing essential information on:

• What is wound malodour?
• Strategies you can use to treat malodour
• The reasons why malodour occurs and related factors
• The assessment tools and tips to help assess malodour
• How malodour impacts on patient lifestyles

You’ll also get to apply what you’ve learnt to 2 case studies. Register now at: www.wounds-uk.com/course to start your CPD-accredited eLearning module.

This module details information about our CliniSorb charcoal activated dressing and how it can effectively absorb the volatile molecules that cause malodour.

eLearning courses with JCN – Journal of Community Nursing

Products in Practice: Appeel Sterile Medical Adhesive Remover range (CPD-accredited)

This 30 minute eLearning module has been developed for healthcare practitioners looking to explore:

• The need for medical adhesive removers
• The benefits of Appeel Sterile Medical Adhesive Remover range
• How to use the Appeel Sterile Medical Adhesive Remover range
• The clinical evidence for Appeel Sterile Medical Adhesive Remover range

Visit www.jcn.co.uk/learning-zone/units/lesson/48/44 to take the module.

Products in Practice: LBF Barrier Cream and LBF Sterile Barrier Film Range (CPD-accredited)

This 30 minute eLearning module has been developed for healthcare practitioners looking to explore:

• The need for barrier products
• The benefits of LBF Barrier Cream and LBF Sterile Barrier Film range
• How to use the LBF Barrier Cream and LBF Sterile Barrier Film range
• The clinical evidence for LBF Barrier Cream and LBF Sterile Barrier Film range

Visit www.jcn.co.uk/learning-zone/units/lesson/54/51 to take the module.