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Nelson Mandela said that‘education is the most powerful
weapon you can use to change the world’, and while the
world might be slightly out of reach for most of us, here
at the JCN we do believe that remaining interested in our working
environment and making a little difference
everyday can help to change practice, and even
the culture of our workplaces. Education doesn’t
necessarily have to come from great institutions
or eminent professors — it can be found in the
skill of our colleagues or by listening to patients’
previous care experiences.
Education has been very important to the
development of JCN’s philosophy. Education provides nurses with the
tools to develop, which means that patients benefit.Without regular
education, poor practice and entrenched ideas can proliferate, which
can result in ritualistic practice that means patients can be forgotten.
Perhaps one of the most recent examples was the Liverpool Care
Pathway, where clinicians of all persuasions had been relying on
what they thought they knew, rather than learning new skills and
questioning practice.This is where regular education can change lives.
JCN’s commitment to education is clear in the free journals we
produce; the free access to our website; and most obviously in our
roadshows. These national events offer an opportunity for community
nurses to try out the latest products, treatments and techniques.
Delegates also get the chance to attend a selection of certificated study
sessions that focus on important areas of their caseload.This booklet
aims to give a snapshot of one day at a JCN roadshow and we hope
that it may encourage you to come along in the future (check our
website for details ). As with all our educational
offerings the JCN roadshows are free and we hope that their quality
demonstrates our ongoing commitment to nursing educating.
Jason Beckford-Ball, editor,
Journal of Community Nursing
Managing director
Nicola Rusling
Publisher
Binkie Mais
Editor
Jason Beckford-Ball
Business manager
Alec O’Dare
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4 Simplifying the wound-
healing matrix
Julie Trudgian
8 Debridement as part of
the wound assessment
process
Simon Barrett
12 Learning zone:
managing high exudate
volumes
14 Learning zone:
understanding MRSA
16 Learning zone: How to
use Debrisoft
18 Learning zone: choosing
made-to-measure
hosiery
Opinions expressed in the articles are those of the authors and do not necessarily
reflect those of Wound Care People Limited. Any products referred to by the
authors should only be used as recommended by manufacturers’ data sheets.
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Contents Editorial