Advice from Caroline Dowsett - Clinical Nurse Specialist for Tissue Viability Services

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As a healthcare professional, I'm always looking at ways that I can improve the lives of the patients
that I care for. When I'm assessing a patient with a wound, I like to use a holistic approach that incoporates a framework that is easy to use but simple and intuitive. The Triangle of Wound Assessment offers me such a framework that helps me assess the whole wound, starting with the wound bed, the wound edge and the periwound skin.

It's a framework that's simple and easy to use. It's easy for patients to understand so I can involve those patients in their care. The Triangle of Wound Assessment offers me an opportunity to improve my practice. When the Triangle of Wound Assessment is incorporated into holistic approach, it helps me to assess the wound. I look at all three areas of the wound, the wound bed, the wound edge and the periwound skin.

I'm able to use the Triangle of Wound Assessment to assess all types of wounds and it guides my management decisions so I can improve outcomes for patients.

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